Artikel ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan alasan yang melatarbelakangi ASEAN tetap melakukan integrasi ekonomi melalui ASEAN Economic Community pada tahun 2015 walaupun prasyarat sebagai komunitas ekonomi belum terpenuhi. Arikel ini menggunakan konsep identitas yang diutarakan oleh Amitav Acharya untuk menjelaskan bahwa keterlibatan dan kepatuhan negara dalam suatu integrasi...
Climate change and trade are two separate realms that inevitably interact with each other. Trade, representing more than half of global GDP by some accounts, may play a pivotal role in efforts to combat climate change and to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The WTO Agreements were not specifically composed for climate change purposes. Labelling and international standards may be...
The IJEPA is the first bilateral agreement that signed by the Indonesian government. Since its enactment in 2007, Indonesia has been eager to enhance the implementation of each sector of the agreement, including competition provision. This article intends to assess whether the implementation of the competition chapter of the IJEPA has met its objectives. As the research data...
Negosiasi pertanian tidak mudah diselesaikan dalam forum multilateral, utamanya di WTO. Selama perundingan Doha, negara maju, negara berkembang dan negara kurang berkembang terbagi dalam koalisi yang berbeda. Hal ini terjadi karena mereka memiliki posisi yang saling bertentangan satu dengan yang lainnya. Indonesia, sebagai salah satu negara berkembang juga memperjuangkan...
The world sugar industries had experienced fluctuation over the past decades. In the recent time, sugar consumption increased rapidly while the production reduced gradually. This condition is also augmented by international agreement in WTO through modalities draft, which was created on July 2008. This draft required the parties to follow the tariff reduction formula and...
Fair Trade is an international movement trying to save farmers and workers in Global South from unfair practices of trade. In the globalized economy era this movement is getting bigger. However, the success of Fair Trade movement leads to grand debate since it depends on the involvement of corporations who are being avoided at the first time this movement began. This article...
Sektor pertanian Jepang diwarnai oleh kebijakan proteksionisme yang diberikan oleh pemerintah kepada kelompok petani. Produktivitas yang rendah serta kekuatan politik dari kelompok kepentingan bernama JA-Zenchu menjadi salah satu penyebab eksistensi kebijakan proteksionisme pertanian. Kemenangan partai LDP dalam pemilu tahun 2012 pada mulanya disambut positif oleh masyarakat...
Indonesia merupakan salah satu negara yang menduduki peringkat teratas mengenai jumlah perokok. Di samping itu, jumlah hasil produksi tembakau yang beredar di Indonesia juga termasuk tinggi. Jumlah yang tinggi dalam produksi tembakau merupakan akumulasi dari produksi tembakau perusahaan dalam negeri maupun produksi tembakau perusahaan multinasional yang berinvestasi di perusahaan...
Recent development has witnessed a significant contribution of creative economies to economic growth worldwide. This article intends to map the position of Indonesia's creative industry, not only in the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) market, but also in the wider global trading system. Findings show that in some ASEAN countries, the creative industries sector has...
The China-United States tire dispute was the first case concerning the China-specific Safeguard, particularly China's Accession Protocol and Section 421 of the Trade Act 1974. The China-specific Safeguard was implemented by the United States to block products solely from China to enter the US market. This article questions China's decision to countermeasure the US tire tariff...
The formation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995 was a step forward to a more organized and rule-binding universal trade regime. The WTO is acknowledged as a rule-oriented institution as it implements a detailed and binding dispute settlement mechanism, for which most developing countries are appreciative. Nevertheless, this mechanism does not overcome the age-old...
Globalisation causes complexity in the determination of the origin of goods. The basic concept of the rule of origin is to identify the "nationality" of goods. In this regard, the "nationality" of goods imposes the legal consequence of trade policy instruments that are applied to the goods. In order to determine such "nationality',) there are legal or administrative requirements...
The formation of bilateral Free Trade Agreement (FTA) has proliferated in various regions since the United States (US) initiated the formation of NAFTA in 1992. What was striking from the phenomenon was that many FTAs were formed between developed and developing countries not only regionally but also cross-regionally. In fact, only a fraction of initiated FTAs successfully...
The role of trade in services becomes more important as its contribution to ASEAN countriesi GDP achieved 40 70% last year. Gradual liberalisation in service sector until 2015 creating opportunities in both outward and inward investments. This study aims to map commitment position of Indonesian trade in construction services on AFAS, to analyse conformity of Indonesian...
The Indonesian trade in horticulture indicates that the value of imports is higher than the value of exports for raw or processed commodities. The purpose of this study is to analyze the performance of import, the competitiveness and the factors that affect Indonesia's import of garlic, onions, potatoes and oranges. Type of data used in this study is secondary data from the years...
The purpose of this study is (1) to know the trend of tea production in several tea producing countries (2) to determine the trend of Indonesian tea export and (3) to determine the competitiveness of Indonesian tea in the international market. The data used in this study is a secondary data that analyzed with descriptive methods. Both the first and the second objectives of this...
This research examines the state of competitiveness of the Indonesian automotive Industry today; identify opportunities and challenges, facing the Indonesian automobile industry; address efforts made to develop the opportunities and address the challenges; and draw policy recommendations that are potent to address problems, obstacles, and challenges facing the automotive industry...
Followed the rules of WTO covered agreements became more and more technical, and more and more disputes involved the expertise in the field of science or technology, the consultation with experts procedure became increasingly important. However, although the Panel is authorized by the WTO rules to start such a procedure, there are no detailed rules guiding the Panel as how to...
This study attempts to assess the welfare effects of EAC on partner states in the backdrop of multiple memberships in different Regional Trade Agreements. Using UN COMTRADE databas at 6 digit level of aggregation with HS96 nomenclature, we estimate a number of trade indicator with a view to evaluating the composition of trade structures, trade flows, the degree of opennes of the...
This article examines the current state of affairs with respect to local community empowerment through a traditional knowledge protection system in Indonesia, analysis of the potential impact of traditional knowledge protection management on the Indonesian economy, and making recommendations on the formulation and development of a new policy on the protection of traditional...
There has been a shift in the destination of Indonesian palm oil exports from Europeanmarkets to India and China in recent years. This article aims to estimate the demand of these two countries for Indonesian palm oil exports. This article argues that price supporting policies play an important role behind the increase in the quantity of the demand for Indonesian palm oil exports...
Managing environmental standards as a form of environment-related trade barriers has become increasingly important for producing countries that are active participants in global commodity trading. Current international environmental standardization in trade, shows stronger tendency of convergence between sustainability criteria developed by the private sector and government...
This paper discusses several issues in relations with Indonesia and its utilization of the WTO Dispute Settlement System as a Complainant or a Third Party. It is shown that Indonesia has not yet active using the WTO Dispute Settlement System to secure its trading rights under the WTO. Therefore, optimism on the future of Indonesia and WTO Dispute Settlement System should be built...
Basically the blueprint of AEC is to build Asean Economic Community as an integrated area for the distribution of goods, services, investment, capital, and skillful work force. 2008 is the year to start establishing the area in that 2015 is expected to be the time for the implementation. It can be said that AEC is nonetheless AFTA plus. This article analyzes the methods and steps...
Main CAFTA (China ASEAN Free Trade area) has been started on 1 January 2010. The full CAFTA will be realized in 2015. It has political and economical motives. The free trade area is the world largest in term of population and the third largest in term of GDP (Gross Domestic Product). This paper discusses the theoretical and possible impact of CAFTA on trade articularly in...