This paper models the trade creating and trade diverting effects of the COMESA free trade agreement (FTA) and MERCOSUR … implementations, intra-COMESA FTA trade and intra-MERCOSUR trade are shown to have grown to 171% and 116% above their gravity equation … predicted levels. There is some evidence that MERCOSUR diverted modest levels of trade from non-members but there is no evidence …

We offer a comprehensive general equilibrium analysis of the EU-Mercosur agreement considering tariffs, quotas, non …

Harrison, Rutherford, Tarr, and Gurgel estimate that the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas (FTAA), the EU-MERCOSUR … simultaneously negotiating the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR agreement, while supporting multilateral liberalization through the Doha … highly protected markets. Both the FTAA and the EU-MERCOSUR agreements are net trade-creating for the countries involved, but …

Brazil is currently immersed in the project of building a new common market, known as MERCOSUR, with its neighbors … environmentalists, MERCOSUR and WTO tribunals have now issued three separate decisions finding that these measures violate international … argue that the test applied by WTO and MERCOSUR panels in trade and environment disputes gives insufficient weight to the …

years before the date of accession. MERCOSUR shows a similar pattern in progress, but NAFTA and EFTA are more idiosyncratic …

free trade agreements with interested countries and is already moving in this direction. Assuming Mercosur considers this … an FTA with the UK could be completed in a relatively short period and, iii) failing Mercosur to give these talks …-of-the-envelope estimates indicating that under such an FTA, Mercosur could triple its meat exports and double its agro-industrial exports to …

This paper applies the gravity trade model to assess Mercosur-European Union trade, and trade potential following the … of Mercosur plus Chile and the fifteen members of the European Union. A panel data analysis is used to disentangle the …