Regional market building is a social process. Market officials pursue integration objectives in the midst of unique institutional, cultural and economic contexts. Influenced by those contexts, they design markets with similar objectives but remarkably different architectures. This article offers...

The closing of the twentieth century witnessed the proliferation of regional trade areas: a reinvigorated EU became one of almost 170 integration efforts. The first comparative analyses have suggested that these RTAs, despite sharing broadly similar objectives, are remarkably different projects....

The trade-sustainable impact assessment of the European Union-Mercosur trade agreement found that the economic impact of the trade liberalization scenario could be positive in the agriculture sector of Mercosur countries. However, it also found that the social and environmental impacts would be...

The NAFTA and MERCOSUR agreements seem to have accelerated the regional integration process respectively within North and South of America. In the South in particular, MERCOSUR has led to trade liberalization and deregulation, which has resulted in significant growth of its regional trade. In...

This paper aims at identifying ways to pursue the EU-Mercosul negotiations leading to a free trade agreement (FTA). After reviewing their already long history, it outlines a basic framework, in goods, services and other themes, judged possible. The main point is that, given the prevailing...

Portuguese Abstract: No período recente as exportações brasileiras têm aumentado, assim como o grau de abertura da economia brasileira. O Brasil tem procurado diversificar os seus parceiros comerciais a fim de obter maior participação no comércio internacional. Este trabalho tem por...

Latin America is a fertile ground for exploring issues of trade and human rights, but relatively little seems to be written about human rights in economic integration processes across Latin America. This article is an attempt at remedying this. It is an exploratory piece that highlights some of...