PROTEKSIONISMESENGKETA DAGANG DALAM PERDAGANGAN INTERNASIONAL:PENDEKATAN NEGOSIASISTUDI KASUS: PROTEKSIONISMEAS TERHADAP IMPOR DAGING KANADA

This paper will explain the problem of dispute in international trade and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO) as a mediator in the dispute. Economic globalization andinternational trade relations through free market has positive and negative impact. Theyare the consequences of countries becomingmembers of the WTO. Trade protectionism is an unfair form of anti-free market policy in the international market. This policy is to protect a country’s domestic market but on the other hand it reducedthe spirit of the free market. Protection is often done by complicating administrative documents, quota, product certification, health aspect, labor protection. Aprotectionist policy has been made by the United States in the caseof importing meat from Canada where WTO as a mediator and international trade regime becomes the dominant actor in the negotiation process. As a result, the United States cannot prove the state's allegation against Canadian meat imports after a special panel was conducted in a session at the Dispute Settlement Body (DSB). Therefore the protectionist policy must be rational and accountable so that no country will be harmed by its impact either in the micro scale (consumer) or the macro scale (country