The present article is a review of some recent works on the effects of the FTAA and the EU-Mercosur agreement on the Brazilian economy. We present these works' main results, emphasizing their methodological differences and limitations. Their results seem to be very diverse and very sensible to...

This report analyzes the legislation about government procurement adopted in the context of trade agreements of the European Union, the World Trade Organization and Nafta, and the rules about this subject in United States and Brazil. Its main goal is to provide information that could support the...

The European Union and the Mercosur are actually negotiating an inter-regional Free Trade Area, even though the conditions of access of Latin American products to European market are relatively restrictive. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is...