AreaIndonesia

Commodity GroupRice

CommodityAll

Date06/10/2015

Policy CategoryTrade

Policy InstrumentImport agreement

DescriptionAccording to Vietnamese official sources, agreed to import 1.0 million tonnes of rice from Viet Nam between October 2015 and March 2016. Successive statements by Indonesian authorities confirmed that an import agreement had been reached with Viet Nam, as volumes would be needed to replenish Government reserves and avert further pressure on domestic quotations.