EU and Mercosur in the Twenty-First Century: Taking Stock of the

The debate around the agreement continues prior to its ratification and the goal of this policy brief is to inform this debate with facts and figures and to anchor it into the mod- ern realities of the EU and Mercosur relationship. [...] Even though the EU was the second largest importer of soya beans from Mercosur after China, the difference between the share of the two regions was significant with China claiming 75% of the soya bean exports from Mercosur and the EU only 6%. [...] 6 ecipe policy brief — 15/2021 BOX 2: ELLALINK – THE NEW EU AND MERCOSUR DIGITAL BRIDGE From the rising exchange of information services to the growing use of sensors and digital tech- nologies in agriculture and machinery, trade in digital services between the EU and Mercosur is bound to increase. [...] The effects of the pandemic were also felt in the bilateral trade between the EU and Mercosur. [...] The data shows that the number of Mercosur citizens living in the EU increased while the num- ber of EU citizens living in Mercosur fell as compared to the levels reached in the 1990s.