INSTITUTE CULTURAL MINERVA INSTITUTE OF BRAZILIAN BUSINESS AND PUBLIC MANAGEMENT ISSUES - IBI THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY

Since Brazil is the largest country in MERCOSUR and the United States is the biggest in NAFTA, the methodology utilized here was to study Brazilian merchandise trade with NAFTA, MERCOSUR and rest of the world and US merchandise trade with NAFTA, MERCOSUL and rest of the world, trying to identify the trade trends. [...] The CCM assists the MERCOSUR executive body (GMC) and is responsible for the coordination of the common trade policy and for supervision of the implementation of the common external tariff (CET); d) Joint Parliamentary Committee (CPC). [...] In fact, in the period under analysis, the participation of Brazilian exports to Paraguay and Uruguay over the total exports to MERCOSUR decreased from 21.07% to 17.88% and from 13.75% to 11.27%, respectively. [...] IV - NAFTA -Trade In this section, the evolution of the merchandise trade in NAFTA will be studied, analyzing US merchandise trade with other NAFTA member countries, MERCOSUR and the rest of the world. [...] The participation of US exports to NAFTA in the total amount of US exports increased very minimally in the 1991-1994 period.