{"id":238726,"date":"2019-03-04T17:55:33","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T22:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rael.org\/?p=238726"},"modified":"2021-09-02T13:46:48","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T17:46:48","slug":"indonesia-exempts-palestinian-dates-olive-oil-from-import-taxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/indonesia-exempts-palestinian-dates-olive-oil-from-import-taxes\/","title":{"rendered":"Indonesia exempts Palestinian dates, olive oil from import taxes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: <\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #008080;\"><strong>All countries should do the same!<\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Indonesia has now implemented zero tariffs on dates and olive oil from Palestine, as a continuous commitment to support the social and economic development of the Palestinian people.<\/p>\n<p>By implementing this policy, Indonesians will be able to consume dates imported directly from Palestine during the upcoming Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in the May-June. The tariff elimination is an important measure for the improvement of Indonesia-Palestine bilateral trade relations.<\/p>\n<p>Zero tariffs on dates and olive oil from Palestine are expected to provide an alternative choice of more competitive sources for consumers and domestic industries in Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is also expected to increase the competitiveness of Palestinian products,\u201d Trade Minister Enggartiasto Lukita said in a press release on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Lukita revealed that the provisions on the elimination of tariffs for the two Palestinian products had been active since February 21, 2019, marked by the sending of a diplomatic note by the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to Palestine.<\/p>\n<p>The measure, announced in December last year, was initially slated to start in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"9H0F6kLGkG\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190303-indonesia-exempts-palestinian-dates-olive-oil-from-import-taxes\/\">Indonesia exempts Palestinian dates, olive oil from import taxes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Indonesia exempts Palestinian dates, olive oil from import taxes&#8221; &#8212; Middle East Monitor\" src=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastmonitor.com\/20190303-indonesia-exempts-palestinian-dates-olive-oil-from-import-taxes\/embed\/#?secret=9H0F6kLGkG\" data-secret=\"9H0F6kLGkG\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RAEL\u2019S COMMENT: All countries should do the same! &nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":336691,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noproxy.rael.org\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}