Indonesia’s ministry of industry has issued a notification to impose the technical specifications of various apparel. The ministry said it has taken such a step to protect the security, health and safety of consumers and protect the environment from the use of apparel, as well as create healthy business competition and increase the competitiveness of the apparel industry.

According to the notification obtained from Fibre2Fashion’s market insight tool TexPro, the country has specified HS codes of various finished clothing which will come under the regulation for standardisation. A total 207 finished clothes under various HS codes are covered under the provision. These apparel products are used for upper and lower wears for men and women, in addition to kids aged three years and above.

As per TexPro, Indonesia imported apparel worth $350.240 million during January-August 2023. Last year, it had imported apparel worth $586.299 million. Earlier, the inbound shipment was valued at $637.590 million in 2021, $627.349 million in 2020 and $844.720 million 2019.

Fibre2Fashion News Desk (KUL)