After a long impasse, Mercosur and the European Union are once again negotiating to reach a Free Trade Agreement. The benefits from such a trade liberalization would be significant since these are essentially complementary economic regions. An agreement would also end decades of costly trade...

We estimate that a hard Brexit would reduce UK agro industrial imports from the EU by 50%. The UK Government has proposed to substitute the Common Agricultural Policy with market-oriented policies. It has also expressed interest in signing free trade agreements with interested countries and is...

Spanish Abstract: Durante los últimos diez años la mayoría de los países de LAC disminuyeron sus barreras comerciales dejando atrás décadas de estrategias asociadas con la sustitución de importaciones. Desde comienzos del siglo XX no se presentaba una situación similar a la actual. Estas...

This paper examines trade policies in Peru and Argentina since the reforms of the 1990s. Peru provides a valuable example of sustaining reform. Leaders have used negotiations and other international instruments to disseminate among Peruvians a positive vision of Peru in the international economy...

Introducción / Martín Piñeiro -- ¿Por qué un análisis de la "geopolitica de los alimentos"? / Guillertno Valles Galmés -- Paises que son los principales actores económicos y politicos: sus intereses y posicionamientos -- La geopolitica de los alimentos desde la mirada de la politica...

The binding of tariff rates and adoption of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization-sanctioned safeguards and antidumping mechanisms provided the basis to remove a multitude of instruments of protection in the Latin American countries discussed in this paper. At the...