The government added 19 commodity groups to be included in the National Commodity Balance System (SiNas NK) in 2022. The 19 commodities are iron and steel (steel alloy derivatives), tires, plastic raw materials, mineral raw materials, cellular phones (handheld computers and tablet computers), electronics (AC), color multifunction machines (color photocopiers, and printers). colored). Furthermore, corn, raw materials for lubricants, saccharin and cyclamate, cement clinker and cement, footwear, raw materials for masks and masks, textiles and textile products (TPT), textile textiles and batik motifs, apparel and apparel accessories; other fuels, fuel oil (BBM), and natural gas.

"Meanwhile, in phase 1 of 2021, there will be 5 commodities, namely rice, sugar, beef, fishery and salt," explained Secretary of the Coordinating Ministry for Economic Affairs, Susiwijono Moegiarso, Monday (10/10).

That way, currently there are 24 commodities that are included in the 2022 NK scheme where business actors have previously filled out the NK SiNas on the Needs Plan (RK) until September 2022.

Then this October the ministry of commodity development will verify the RK and enter the supply plan into the SiNas NK. Furthermore, Susiwijo said, the 24 commodities included in the NK will later receive the issuance of an Import Approval (PI) and Export Approval (PE) in 2023, where the determination of the NK is carried out no later than December 2022.

This is in accordance with Article 29 of Presidential Regulation Number 32 of 2022 concerning Commodity Balance, the determination of commodities for which PE and PI issuance is carried out based on NK will be carried out in stages.
"So that business actors get a guarantee of the availability of raw materials for the next one year," explained Susiwijo.

To know the purpose of establishing the NK itself so that it can become a single reference data between Ministries/Institutions (K/L), a single platform for Business Licensing Services to Support Export-Import Business Activities (PBUMKU), providing guarantees of certainty in the timing, amount, and cost of licensing, encouraging simplification of commerce, increasing transparency, and being part of efforts to prevent corruption.