Tariffs and IP-PTA, for exporters
Preference is granted line by line. Being in the right HS chapter tells you nothing about whether your product qualifies.
The agreement
The Indonesia–Pakistan Preferential Trade Agreement has been in force since 1 September 2013. It is preferential, not free trade: concessions apply to a listed set of tariff lines.
How to check your own line
- Get your 8-digit Indonesian tariff line, not your 6-digit HS heading. The importing country's classification governs.
- Ask your buyer's Indonesian customs broker to confirm the classification in writing.
- Check whether that line appears on the IP-PTA concession schedule.
- Confirm the certificate of origin requirement — issued by the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP), not a chamber of commerce, and the description must match your invoice exactly.
- Record the date you checked, and check again before the vessel arrives.
Quoting a buyer a landed price that assumes preference, then discovering the line is not scheduled. You absorb the difference or you lose the customer. Check before you quote, not after.
What is closed regardless
For 2026, Indonesia allows no imports of rice, consumption sugar, or corn for feed and food, and consumption salt imports are closed, with salt self-sufficiency targeted for 2027. Industrial sugar and salt still come in, under quotas for Indonesian processors. No tariff line helps here.
The longer version, with the closed list and the checking procedure