The Access of Mercosur Exports to the European Market
The Access of Mercosur Exports to the European Market

Author: Marta R. Castilho

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13:

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The European Union and the Mercosur are presently negotiating a Free Trade Area, and that may improve the conditions of access of Latin American exports to the European market. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is not favorable to Mercosur exports. This explains, in addition to the Mercosur exports composition, the weak trade volume between the two regions as compared to trade between the EU and its other partners. In the first part of this article we analyze the composition of trade between the two regions and both tariff and nontariff European barriers vis-a-vis Mercosur and its competitors. In a second step, we use a disaggregated gravity approach to measure the impacts of tariff and nontariff barriers on bilateral trade between the EU and 92 of its partners. This gives us the sensitivity of European imports to trade protection and allow us to identify the products that are most likely to present untapped trade potential in case bilateral trade liberalization eventually takes place.

The European Union's policy towards Mercosur
The European Union's policy towards Mercosur

Author: Arantza Gomez Arana

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2017-02-23

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1526108410

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This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. This book provides a distinctive and empirically rich account of the European Union’s relationship with the Common Market of the South (Mercosur). It seeks to examine the motivations that determine the EU’s policy towards Mercosur; the most important relationship the EU has with another regional economic integration organization. In order to investigate these motivations (or lack thereof), this study examines the contribution of the main policy- and decision-makers, the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, as well as the different contributions of the two institutions. It analyses the development of EU policy towards Mercosur in relation to three key stages. Arana argues that the dominant explanations in the literature fail to adequately explain the EU’s policy, in particular, these accounts tend to infer the EU’s motives from its activity. Rather than the EU pursuing a strategy, as implied by most of the existing literature, the EU was largely responsive, which explains why the relationship is much less developed than the EU’s relations with other parts of the world.

Quantitative Assessment of a Free Trade Agreement Between MERCOSUR and the European Union
Quantitative Assessment of a Free Trade Agreement Between MERCOSUR and the European Union

Author: Ivan Boyer

Publisher: United Nations Publications

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 84

ISBN-13:

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This paper assesses the possible effects of a free trade agreement (FTA) between MERCOSUR - a regional trade agreement between Brazil, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay - and the EU. The study takes into consideration the most important recent FTAs signed among the Latin American countries, as well as the latest European Union enlargements. Section I of the publication describes the trade relations between MERCOSUR and the EU putting focus on the reasons for negotiating and the recent trade relations between them. Section II describes the model, the country and the product aggregations and the simulation scenarios. Section III details the main results. Section IV concludes the study and brings in some insight about the key outcomes and recommendations.

Mercosur
Mercosur

Author: Ioannis Vasileiou

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 9781097570546

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Mercosur has been the most significant initiative for a deeper and more constructive integration in South America. Despite the fact that it is mainly known as a common market, its contribution to social stability is absolutely notable. Ever since its establishment, Mercosur's members faced numerous economic and sociopolitical crises. Nonetheless, contrary to more than a few pessimistic voices which were foreseeing its destruction, Mercosur managed to overcome all those serious tribulations and for the time being seems stronger than ever. The author's target in terms of this book is not only to scrupulously examine Mercosur, but also to shed light on the outstandingly notable trade and economic relations between Mercosur and the European Union which aim at boosting economic growth and development in the context of both sides.