Indonesia Reviews Cattle Import From Australia Over Spy Spat
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Indonesia is reviewing its dependence on cattle imports from Australia, in the first sign that a dispute over phone tapping could affect trade and investment between the two neighbors.
Indonesia, which takes more than 60 percent of Australia’s live cattle exports, may revise rules to allow it to import from other countries, Trade Minister Gita Wirjawan told reporters in Jakarta today. State-owned PT Rajawali Nusantara Indonesia is putting on hold talks to buy Australian land for cattle ranches, said chief executive Ismed Hasan Putro today.