The Legal Effect Of Rate Exemptions Provision In Ia-cepa on Live Cattle in Halal Product Perspective

Abstract

Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA) as a comprehensive agreement in the field of trade in goods, services, investment, and economic cooperation. One of the IA-CEPA provision is Rate or import duty exemption which Australia will eliminate 100% or all of its tariff on 6,474 posts or 0%. Meanwhile, Indonesia eliminated 94.6% of all 10,813 tariff posts to 0%. In this article, researchers try to collect various implications for the exemption of import duty tariffs in these investments which are reviewed based on trade regulations in Indonesia; Based on the background, the problem formulations are: 1) What are the organic regulations related to the rate exemption that have been issued by the Government of Indonesia as a follow-up to the IA-CEPA agreement? 2) How does the rate exemptions provision in IA-CEPA implemented in live cattle based on halal product perspective?. The research method is normative legal research in the form of a literature study which is carried out by tracing primary and secondary legal materials. There are three research approaches in this research, such as history approach, statute approach, and conceptual approach. The data was processed systematically based on legal materials. . To support the implementation of rate exemption, Indonesian government issued 3 organic regulations, they are: Ministry of Trade Regulation No. 63/2020, Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 54/PMK.010/2022; and Ministry of Finance Regulation No. 82/PMK.04/2020. The implementation of PMK No. 54/PMK.010/2022 in the live cattle market provides the largest total increase in the welfare of economic actors of 115 billion in order to improve the performance of the beef market in Indonesia, with a breakdown of 736 billion deficits for producers, 936 billion surpluses for consumers, and 85 billion deficits for government revenue. Halal Product Assurance post-Government Regulation in Lieu of Law No. 2 of 2022 issuance changed the certificate issuance period, but also the Determination of Halal Product which submitted by the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), Provincial MUI, Regency/City MUI, or Aceh Ulema Consultative Council (MPU) to BPJPH as the basis for issuing Halal Certificates. The born of Halal Product Fatwa Committee, validity of Halal Certificate, Halal certification with halal declaration, the assistance in the halal production process, and Electronic-based halal product assurance services. The halal assurance of live cattle must be ensured by the existence of regulations regarding halal product assurance issued by the Government of Indonesia through Law No. 6 of 2023 so that the halal certification of related commodity is always up to date with the legal basis in force in Indonesia.