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Tariffs and the IP-PTA
We do not publish tariff rates. A rate without your 8-digit line number and the date it was checked is not usable, and a stale rate is worse than none.
Why there is no rate table on this page
Every trading site publishes a tariff table. Most of them are wrong, because a duty rate is only meaningful attached to three things: an exact national tariff line, a date, and a country of origin backed by a valid certificate. Strip any of those away and the number misleads.
So this page tells you how to find your own number and how to keep it current. If you want us to do it, that is part of what our commission covers, and we tell you the date we checked.
The agreement
The Indonesia–Pakistan Preferential Trade Agreement has been in force since 1 September 2013. It is a preferential agreement, not a free trade agreement: it grants concessions on a listed set of tariff lines rather than liberalising trade across the board.
That distinction is the whole point. Being in HS chapter 15 does not mean your palm oil line has a preference. Being in chapter 52 does not mean your yarn count does. The list is at line level.
How to check your line
- Get your 8-digit national line, not your 6-digit HS heading. The first six digits are international and identical everywhere. Digits seven and eight are national and are where the rate actually lives. Pakistan and Indonesia number these differently.
- Ask your customs broker at the destination, not the origin. The importing country's classification governs. A Pakistani broker's view of an Indonesian line is an opinion, not a ruling.
- Check whether the line appears on the IP-PTA concession schedule. If it does not, you pay the MFN rate and the certificate of origin buys you nothing.
- Confirm the certificate of origin requirement. Preference is conditional on a valid certificate issued by the authorised body — the Chamber of Commerce in Pakistan, KADIN in Indonesia. No certificate, no preference, regardless of what the schedule says.
- Write down the date you checked. Then check again before arrival.
Duty and regulatory positions can change while goods are at sea. On polyester staple fibre into Pakistan in particular, anti-dumping and regulatory duty positions have moved before. Fixing a price on a rate you checked at enquiry and never re-checked is how a profitable trade becomes a loss at discharge.
What is closed regardless of tariff
A concession is irrelevant if the import is banned. For 2026, Indonesia has banned rice, sugar and corn imports, and consumption salt imports are closed, with full salt self-sufficiency targeted for 2027.
We publish this because it is the most useful thing on the page. If you are looking at any of those four commodities into Indonesia this year, stop — no tariff line will help you.
Lines worth asking about
Palm oil into Pakistan and mandarins into Indonesia are among the trades where preference has historically mattered on this corridor. Both are worth checking properly rather than assuming in either direction.
Where we fit
We check the line, name the source, and give you the date. Import Desk · Sourcing