The Free Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States in October 2006 has brought a number of positive and negative effects on various sectors of the Colombian economy. One of the sectors that has been at the center of the hurricane in discussions around these effects is the poultry sector. Although the Colombian government established a safeguard during the FTA negotiations to protect this sensitive sector of the economy, union representatives argue that competition with US producers is asymmetric, ie, that the Colombian producer is at a disadvantage, and this has generated adverse effects for the industry. So the main objective of this research is to determine whether the safeguard measures implemented by the Colombian government to protect this sector have had the expected effects.