This study assesses possible costs and benefits resulting from Brazil's accession into the World Trade Organization's (WTO) Government Procurement Agreement (GPA). Initially, this evaluation is based on a bibliographical survey that analyses the effects of the non-discriminatory public...

Although non-tariff barriers (NTBs) are one of the main barriers to trade nowadays, Brazil seems to lack a research program that investigates their effects. This study aimed to conduct a bibliometric analysis of scientific articles evaluating NTBs in the scope of international trade, being the...

This paper calculates effective tariffs by industrial sector for Brazil from 2000 to 2015. Effective tariff differs from nominal tariff in that it takes into consideration the protection given to industrial inputs so that a sector whose products are protected by high tariffs may also be burdened...

The present article aims to compare the regulatory and technical standardization systems in Brazil and Argentina, in order to examine the degree of convergence existing and possible between the two trade partners. Understanding the regulatory and standardization characteristics of the two...

The main of that paper is to analyze the evolution of oat production in Brazil and its relation with its foreign trade, especially considering the possible impacts that non-tariff barriers may have on the dynamics of oats imports by the brazilian economy. For that, in addition to considering the...

This article aims to develop an analysis of the regulatory coherence of theme related to technical barriers to trade (TBT) and sanitary and phytosanitary measures (SPS) of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP). The work outlines the rights and obligations of those most relevant chapters,...

This article aims to analyze trade and industrial policies in Brazil in light of the normative approach of the global value chains. The analysis of the Brazilian case shows that the policies recently adopted by the country point to the opposite direction from the prescriptions of the global...

The aim of the article is to draw an overview of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP), analyzing its formation and the main issues that will probably be part of the future agreement, and evaluating the perspectives for its conclusion and possible impacts, with special focus upon...

The article discusses the implications of the establishment of global value chains on policymaking. The approach of value chains has emphasized the implications of trade policy derived from the diffusion of new production model. In the area of industrial policy, the focus of value chains...

In the last decades, it was observed a reduction in tariff barriers for all countries. Even though this reduction affected almost all goods, the agribusiness sector experienced a smaller impact, keeping a higher average tariff, relative to other industries. In addition to these tariff measures,...