Indonesia has won the right to seek a ruling by the World Trade Organisation on Australia's plain-packaging laws aimed at curbing smoking.
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The organisation is understood to be setting up a panel to assess whether Australia has breached the rules of global commerce with its legislation on tobacco products.
The law stipulates tobacco must be sold in drab green boxes featuring only one typeface, and graphic images of diseased smokers, the ABC reports.
Indonesia, which exports about $A720 million worth of tobacco a year, is the fifth country to take Australia to the WTO since the law took effect at the end of 2012.
New Zealand's own plain-packaging bill is expected to be passed into law this year.