HARMONISASI REGULASI DAN EFEKTIVITAS KELEMBAGAAN SAFEGUARD DI INDONESIA

The implementation of WTO agreement is not easy in accordance with the estabilished regulations, so deviationsin the process of trade liberalization that press domestic indrusties will likely to take place. Therefore, it isnecessary to have safety actions to actualize mutual benefits in international trade. There are many cases ofsafety actions conducted by many countries such as Argentine that implements safety actions to its footwearindustries without adapting to WTO regulations which causes the country’s losses. The paper examines theconsistency of safeguard regulations in Indonesia with safeguard regulations of WTO and its implementationreviewed from the law effectiveness. The result of the study shows that the safeguard regulations in Indonesiais in accordance with the safeguard regulations of WTO in the normative level, but in the implementation thepolicy is not done effectively.