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 …

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 …

development and hence integration prospects of NAFTA, ASEAN, MERCOSUR and EU. …

This paper analyses the evolution of the South American Common Market, Mercosur. It shows how the lack of coordination …