This study analyses how the set of products Brazil exported to the United States was similar with that of China between 2000 and 2008 and also compares the quality and variety of their exports. Using product-level import data from United States, this study estimates the export similarity,...

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...

This paper regards the regulation of intellectual property, services and investments in some preferential trade agreements. We analyze the systematization of intellectual property, services and investment rules contained in treaties signed by the United States, European Union, India and China in...

This article is the result of a research on regulation of global trade, particularly on regional agreements and bilateral trade of the Institute for Applied Economic Research. The results presented here i) address the presentation of data and scanning of existing preferential agreements for the...