JAKARTA - The Minister of Trade (Mendag) Budi Santoso proposed cutting regulations or deregulation for export of furniture and handicraft products. One of them is by removing the obligation of the wood legality verification system (SVLK) or V-Legal.
For your information, V-Legal is a document used as a condition for submitting export notification of goods for exporters of wood products in accordance with statutory provisions. Currently, furniture and handicraft exporters are required to include SVLK assessments of their products.
"Our export regulations yesterday discussed with friends from associations and then also with the Ministry of Forestry. We actually want derivative products from wood such as furniture and handicrafts to not need V-Legal," he said at the Ministry of Trade, Jakarta, Wednesday, May 21.
According to Budi, the V-Legal document should only be used for countries in need. Like the UK and the European Union. Meanwhile, the V-Legal document for furniture exports to other countries does not need to be mandatory.
"V-Legal is allowed, but only for countries in need, for example, the UK and the European Union, the UK and the European Union need it now, but to other countries we propose that we shouldn't need V-Legal," he said.
Even so, Budi emphasized that the abolition of SVLK or V-Legal obligations is only for wood derivative products such as furniture and crafts. Meanwhile, wood blocks still require SVLK.
"Still specifically for furniture and handicraft products. As for wood products, wood blocks and so on, we agree that it must still be with SVLK," said Budi.
According to Budi, the manufacture of furniture does not actually need to take care of V-Legal documents. Because, it is certain that the source of raw materials is obtained from wood that already has official documents.
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Furthermore, Budi said that in this way, similar documents were no longer needed to be shown by business actors in the downstream sector.
"If you make furniture, crafts, make sure to take the wood upstream that already has a SVLK. Exporters take wood, the wood must be legal, upstream which has a SVLK. That's actually the supervision can be done," he said.
Budi revealed another reason for his consideration in removing the obligation of V-Legal documents for furniture and handicraft products. He said the document was made to increase the cost burden on business actors.
Karena itu juga perlu biaya (mengurus V-Legal), butuh waktu, butuh banyak hal. Yang itu kadang-kadang (buat) daya saing kita menjadi tidak bagus, jelasnya.
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