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...

The main purpose of this article is to evaluate the degree of integration of Mercosur both at a regional and a multilateral level. We estimate a gravity equation in order to assess the border effect and the degree of integration among Mercosur countries during the 90's.

Despite the strong growth of the Latin American foreign trade in the 2000s, the integration of these countries in the global production and trade networks is relatively weak, what largely reflects these countries' specialization on goods intensive in natural resources. In general, the share of...