Indonesia rattling Norway’s cage over proposed palm oil ban

In Indonesia, even though trade with Norway is limited and has been shrinking since 2012, the Indonesian Ministry of Trade is still threatening to stop imports of Norwegian fish if the Nordic country goes ahead with the palm oil ban proposed by Parliament last year. The threat is more symbolic than anything else due to similar threats by the European Parliament to ban palm oil for biofuels, a threat Indonesia has been lobbying hard on a member state level to stave off.