ANALYSIS OF IMPORT DEPENDENCY AND TRADE CONCENTRATION OF INDONESIA’S GARLIC

Abstract

This research objectives are as follows: (1) Analyze the import dependency and the trade openness and (2) analyze the geographic trade concentration of garlic imports of Indonesia. This study used 2014–2018 annual time series data for HS 070320. The results shows that import dependency of Indonesia for garlic is very high. Imported garlic is about 95.57% of domestic demands. However, the trade openness for garlic is very low, with import expenditure is about only 6.17e-5 of Indonesia’s GDP. Indonesian garlic imports are highly concentrated geographically; 99.35% of Indonesia’s garlic imports came from China. This shows that Indonesia is very dependent on China’s garlic.