At the start of this year, Indonesia implemented a policy that took many by surprise, not least its largest cattle trading partner.
After importing more than 730,000 Australian cattle in 2014 (up more than 60 percent from the previous year), Indonesia began systematically slashing the country’s quotas.
First came news in January that Indonesia was only going to issue 100,000 import permits for the first quarter, which took exporters aback as they had been hoping to ship 150,000 to 160,000 units.
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Gillian Duncan