Kabupaten Tangerang, May 22 -- Indonesia's Trade Ministry has confiscated over 1.68 million illegally imported products from China, valued at Rp18.8 billion (USD1 = around Rp16,321), during a raid on a company warehouse here.

"Those products were imported from China by PT Asiaalum Trading Indonesia, which is suspected of violating import regulations," Trade Minister Budi Santoso remarked during the press conference after shutting down the violating company on Thursday.

The minister disclosed that the confiscated products included 997,296 bolts and nuts in various sizes, 600 thousand pieces of gloves, 68,265 miniature circuit breakers (MCBs), and 9,763 electric grinders, saws, and planer machines.

Import violations perpetrated by the co...