Chemical Working Group Meeting

On August 2, 2018, Eurocham Chemical Working Group held its regular meeting, with the main agenda to discuss on policy update in Chemical sectors and also further discussion on the progress of some recurrent issues relevant with the sector.

Policy discussed were about the recent Government Regulation on the Online Single Submission, the implementation so far, and how it experienced by the members. For the recurring issue, discussion revolved around the implementation of Post-Border Supervision and also sharing updates on Halal Law implementing regulation.

Some concern raised on the topic on e-commerce on online trading for chemical products as it was found out some chemical products sold by one prominent online platform was actually counterfeited products. Consider the complication to bring chemical goods to enter Indonesian market; the group share the same concern on how it is astonishingly seems to be very lenient on the supervision of local trading, particularly through online platform. The group then suggested to raise the concern toward relevant institutions as an act of attention for underlying bigger cause.

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