IMPLIKASI PERJANJIAN TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI TERHADAP KINERJA PERDAGANGAN PRODUK TEKNOLOGI INFORMASI INDONESIA

Signed by 29 economies in 1996, the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) liberalizes trade in Information Technology (IT) products promoting sustainable development of the technology and the information technology industries in various countries. The United States and the European Union now propose to extend the agreement to cover more IT products (ITA stage 2). The objective of this study is to analyze and evaluate the performance of Indonesia's IT sector. We show that Indonesia's IT product trade balance continues to be in deficit. Therefore, Indonesia should reconsider joining ITA stage 2 as the performance of the Indonesian IT industry covered by the ITA stage 1 has not been as strong as hoped.