7 RI firms re-export Chinese shrimps: EU<\/p>\n
The Jakarta Post, Jakarta<\/p>\n
Almost one third of Indonesia's shrimp exports to Europe in 2003
\nand 2004 actually originated from China, whose shrimps were
\nbanned from the European market, an investigation by the European
\nCommission's Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF) found.<\/p>\n
The result of the inquiry stated that seven Indonesian shrimp
\nexporters had misused the use of the Certificate of Origin (COO)
\ndocument to facilitate the re-exporting of the seafood.<\/p>\n
The seven firms re-exported a total of some 12,000 Chinese
\nshrimps to Europe in two years, the Ministry of Trade said. Some
\n20,849 tons and 21,685 tons of shrimps were exported in 2003 and
\n2004, respectively.<\/p>\n
The ministry's director general for foreign trade Diah Maulida
\nconfirmed on Friday that the seven exporters had first imported
\nthe shrimps from China to be processed here before finally re-
\nexporting them to Europe using COO documents declaring the
\nseafood came from Indonesia.<\/p>\n
\"Out of 185 local shrimp exporters in the country, the OLAF
\nteam investigated seven firms that were later found to have
\nmisused COO documents,\" Diah said on Friday, without revealing
\nthe firms.<\/p>\n
China's shrimps have been banned from entering the European
\nmarket since 2001, after the EU declared that the Chinese seafood
\ncontained antibiotics.<\/p>\n
The EU has been one of Indonesia's major shrimp markets, along
\nwith Japan and the United States.<\/p>\n
Shrimp is the country's top maritime export commodity, with
\nlast year's value reaching $806,86 million, from 2003's $819,14
\nmillion.<\/p>",
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