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Brazil: exploring new paths with the European Union
(2015-11)
The main objective of this Report is to explore new paths that Brazil and the European Union could follow in order to improve their economic and trade relations. Considering the Brazilian isolation in the network of ...
E15 initiative on regulatory systems coherence: private standards, implications for trade, development and governance
(2015-06)
This paper starts with a discussion of the drivers in the emergence and proliferation of private standards. It then seeks to elaborate on how private standards relate to trade, development and governance and explores how ...
Private standards or market standards: in search for legitimacy and accountability in the international trading system
(2015)
In the last decades, many have discussed the impacts of globalization and the spread of a new phenomenon that comes with it – global governance, which means multiplication of international actors, proliferation of distinct ...
Barreiras regulatórias: um novo desafio para a governança da OMC
(2015)
Over the last decades, there is an increasing concern around what should be the role played by the World Trade Organization before the proliferation of preferential and plurilateral trade agreements (PTAs). Moreover, the ...
Reach: is such regulation WTO consistent?
(2015)
This present study analyses the Regulation on Chemicals of the European Union – so called REACH, and some of its main features. Technical barriers to trade have become the new instrument of distorting international trade ...
TBT, SPS and PS: are the wolves of protectionism disguised under sheep skin?
(2015)
The WTO Technical Barriers to Trade and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreements aim at ruling, on a multilateral level, over measures that are created to protect human, animal or plant life or health, or the environment, but ...
Connecting to global value chains: the dynamic general equilibrium effects of a PTA between China and Mercosur over the economy of Brazil
(Center for Global Trade Analysis (GTAP), 2015)
The structure of this paper is organized as follows. Section I presents a set of stylized trade facts about the Brazilian economy, exploring some of the new information available in the 'so called' TIVA and WIOD databases. ...
The manufacturing industry in Brazil in the era of global value chains
(2015)
This article presents a comprehensive and detailed overview of the international trade performance of the manufacturing industry in Brazil over the last decades, emphasizing its participation in Global Value Chains. It ...
COSCEX – FIESP: força-tarefa sobre acordos preferenciais de comércio
(2014-06)
O Brasil enfrenta atualmente um grande desafio. O ano de 2015 marcará o início de um novo Governo. Seja ele da situação ou da oposição, um fato é evidente – o Brasil terá que redefinir sua Política de Comércio Externo. O ...
Acordos preferenciais de comércio: da multiplicação de novas regras aos mega acordos comerciais
(2014)
O trabalho visa levantar informações para os interessados na negociação de novos APCs para o Brasil, bem como definir um modelo brasileiro para futuras negociações preferenciais que compreendam os diversos temas abordados ...
