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...

This paper analyses the possible impacts of tariffs and nontariffsbarriers elimination on beef market in Brazil. To evaluate theeffects of free trade is used a spatial model formulated as Mixed ComplementaryProblem (MCP). We simulate four sceneries to achieve thispurpose: the first simulates the...

The literature has been showing that current import tariffs on industrialized products in Brazil are excessively high when compared to countries with similar income per capita. But there's a controversy over the best path to reduce the level of protection, whether through an unilateral tariff...