US says Indonesia backtracking on trade pledges as deal risks falling flat

10/12/2025
US says Indonesia backtracking on trade pledges as deal risks falling flat

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US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer is set to speak with a top Indonesian official this week in hopes of salvaging a trade framework at risk of collapsing, the Financial Times reported on Tuesday.
Greer will speak to Airlangga Hartarto, the Indonesian coordinating minister for economic affairs, in an effort to revive a deal struck in July that would see US tariffs on Indonesian goods reduced from a threatened 32 per cent to 19 per cent in exchange for a series of concessions.
But US officials...

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