BEIJING: China is willing to import more Indonesian products, Foreign Minister Wang Yi told his Indonesian counterpart on Monday (April 21), describing the two countries as "defenders of economic globalisation and free trade".
China and Indonesia should enhance mutual trust and cooperation, jointly safeguard the multilateral trading system and defend international fairness and justice, Wang said in a meeting with Indonesian Foreign Minister Sugiono in Beijing, according to a Chinese foreign ministry readout.
China is Indonesia's biggest trade partner.
Sugiono told Wang that partnerships with both China and the United States are equally important to the South-East Asian country, Indonesia's foreign ministry said in a statement on Monday, although it did not mention China's willingness to import Indonesian products.
The ministry stressed dialogue as a way out of the global trade war, having discussed tariffs in Beijing.
Sugiono was a part of the delegation of senior Indonesian officials who flew to Washington last week to present offers of significantly increased US imports and investment proposals as part of negotiations to avoid hefty US tariffs.
After a meeting with the US trade representative and the secretary of commerce, Indonesia and the US agreed to complete negotiations within the next 60 days. - Reuters
