Les relations commerciales Brésil-Argentine dans l'union douanière imparfaite du Mercosur

Bernard Yvars ()
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Bernard Yvars: Groupe d'Economie du Développement Université Montesquieu Bordeaux IV

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Abstract: The Mercosur constitution has entailed a development of trades between the different member States but more particularly between Brazil and Argentina, the most important countries of this customs union. A studyhas been driven on the Brazil trade with Argentina so as to characterize its evolution from the end of 80s, that it to say before the entry in application of the Asuncion agreement. By resorting to several indicators (commercial balance, Spearman coefficient, Grubel -Lloyd indicator), a slow but indisputable evolution of the Brazilian foreign trade structure has been put in obviousness. The relatively high level of the Mercosur common external rate lifts the question of the importance of trade diversions create by this regional integration zone. A crossed analysis of revealed comparative advantages and regional preference indicators shows a significant deviation phenomenon of trade. Like the preferential commercial agreement EEC - Spain of 1970 that has prepared the Spanish adhesion (with important diversionsof trade to the disadvantage of Maghreb countries), the Asuncion treaty would have to be perceived by international organisms (World Bank, WTO) as instituting a transitory protectionism of "infant zone" to allow the economic correction of developing countries. (Full text in French)

JEL-codes: F13 F15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 1999-11
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