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Supervision of Facility Misuse for Commercial This policy has shown the effort of the
Purpose. government in supporting small-medium
enterprises. Besides, its implementation has
This policy is stipulated for creating level of been considered as one of the suggestions from
playing field between domestic products, mainly World Customs Organization regarding to many
produced by small-medium enterprises, that cases of under-declaration, under-valuation,
pay taxes and consignment goods imported by misdeclaration, and splitting of consignment
distributor through general cargo which many goods on e-commerce trading.
found in domestic market. “This consideration
has been taken from the discussions and Heru said that the study of the policy is also
inputs from several small-medium enterprise supported by the enforcement data collected
association, Ministry of Industry, forwarder by DGCE, namely there are 400 import activities
association, retailers, and offline distributors,” performed by one person with the value of
said Director General of Customs and Excise, each invoice is approximately only USD 75.
Heru Pambudi. Total value of all the goods which bought from
single supplier reaches up to USD 20.300 USD
Heru added that the amendment of this policy each day. The products consist of wristwatch,
is meant to prevent people from misusing the hand bag, sunglasses, and handphone soft-
facility of de minimis value for commercial use. case. DGCE has identified this scheme as a form
“The government, specifically DGCE, wants of import duty and import related tax evasion.
people to use the facility of import duty and This scheme can disrupt domestic market,
import related tax exemption in the right way especially small-medium enterprises let alone
in by not turning it into commercial use. Other state revenue potential which lost due to this
than that, the government is currently trying procedure.
to promote the use of domestic products” said
Heru.

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