Chinese bird’s nest market ‘wide open’ to Indonesia

Three Indonesian ministers sent off a ship carrying Rp 9.9 billion (US$686,113.47) worth of swiftlet’s nests to China last week as part of Indonesia’s efforts to boost exports of the product to the world’s second-largest economy. Agriculture Minister Syahrul Yasin Limpo, one of the three ministers present, said the government would focus particularly on promoting swiftlet’s nest exports because China did not have an import quota on the product. China imposes import quotas on many commodities, such as coal, oil, wheat, rice and corn. The agriculture minister was accompanied by the trade minister and the state-owned enterprises (SOEs) minister. “The market is wide open, and we have the production capacity,” said the minister in a statement on March 13, a day after the ship departed from Teluk Lamong Terminal in Gresik, East Java. The state…

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