{"id":147907,"date":"2025-07-15T12:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/?p=147907"},"modified":"2025-07-15T12:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T17:58:09","slug":"trump-hails-major-deal-with-indonesia-formerly-not-a-major-trade-partner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/trump-hails-major-deal-with-indonesia-formerly-not-a-major-trade-partner\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump hails major deal with Indonesia; Formerly not a major trade partner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>by<\/em><\/span> <span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>WorldTribune<\/strong> <span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em>Staff \/ <\/em><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/category\/breaking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #006699;\"><strong>247 Real News<\/strong><\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #808080;\"><em> July 15, 2025 <\/em> <\/span><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has finalized a major trade deal with Indonesia, the world\u2019s fourth-most-populous nation.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_147910\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-147910\" style=\"width: 401px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-147910\" src=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/indocopr.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"401\" height=\"236\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-147910\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Indonesia is the world\u2019s third largest exporter of copper ore.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThey are going to pay 19% and we are going to pay nothing. I think it\u2019s a good deal for both parties,\u201d Trump told reporters on the White House lawn.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI spoke to their really great president [Prabowo Subianto] \u2014 very popular, very strong, smart \u2014 and we made the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president said \u201cthey are giving us access into Indonesia, which we\u2019ve never had. That\u2019s probably the biggest part of the deal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump said the Southeast Asian nation \u201chas some great products\u2026 one of the things, as you know, they\u2019re known for is very high-quality copper, which we will be using.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is the world\u2019s third largest exporter of copper ore and is a major manufacturer of insulated wiring.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia is home to nearly 290 million people and primarily exports textiles, agricultural products including palm oil and spices, and electronics such as smartphones.<\/p>\n<p>Indonesia also has the world\u2019s largest known reserves of nickel, which has important industrial uses, including for strengthening and rustproofing steel alloys and making batteries.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to Trump&#8217;s deal, however, Indonesia wasn&#8217;t a major U.S. trade partner, with the value of annual transactions not cracking the top-20 list of nations and ranking on par with Israel, which has a population of less than 10 million.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"truthsocial-embed\" style=\"max-width: 100%; border: 0;\" src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/114858589029028619\/embed\" width=\"600\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><script src=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/embed.js\" async=\"async\"><\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldtribune.com\/beat-the-press\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #ad3434;\"><strong> Beat <span style=\"color: #333399;\"> The Press <\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by WorldTribune Staff \/ 247 Real News July 15, 2025 President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that he has finalized a major trade deal with Indonesia, the world\u2019s fourth-most-populous nation. \u201cThey are going to pay 19% and we are going to pay nothing. I think it\u2019s a good deal for both parties,\u201d Trump told reporters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":147910,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,151,5],"tags":[152,6],"class_list":["post-147907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking","category-exclusives","category-indonesia","category-world-tribune","tag-trump-hails-major-deal-with-indonesia-formerly-not-a-major-trade-partner","tag-worldtribune-com","last_archivepost"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/worldtribune.com\/2025\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}