Japan May Take Indonesia to WTO Over Mineral Export Ban: Media
Tokyo. Japan is preparing to take Indonesia to the World Trade Organization over a ban on exports of mineral ores that has curtailed supplies for industry, the Nikkei business daily said on Thursday.
The Japanese government is set to seek talks with Indonesia through the WTO this month, the report said, without citing sources. If the issue was not resolved, Japan would request that a panel be appointed to look into the case, it added.
Senior officials at Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) told Reuters the government was still studying whether Indonesia’s new mining law violated WTO rules. It had no plans to take the issue to the WTO at present, although this remained an option.
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