HUKUM WTO DALAM SENGKETA ROKOK KRETEK ANTARA INDONESIA DAN AMERIKA SERIKAT

Abstract

The WTO is a new global commerce agency, which has changed the GATT (Customs-Entry Agreement and Trade) to be an agreement that is able to enforce global trade. Embrace WTO regime 'free trade'. Recently, the WTO has become a place of settlement "Cigarettes RI Dispute with U.S.", proposed by the Government of Indonesia, the filing party is the United States. The subject of dispute, namely: WTO / GATT Agreement, Agreement on Sanitary and Phytosanitary Measures /SPS (As a main reference), Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Agreement on Agriculture. Research methods in this case is legal research, usually used secondary data sources only, namely rules and regulations, and the opinions of leading jurists, while the analysis of normative analysis- qualitative. The WTO has decided in favor of Indonesia's victory party Indonesia is based on that act of discrimination by the U.S. government to ban Indonesian Clove Cigarettes violate the general principles of the WTO / GATT, the principle of National Treatment, Article 20 of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), preamble of the Agreement on the Application of Sanitary and Phitosanitary Measures, and Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) serta Agreement on The Application of Sanitary and Phitosanitary Measures.