Evolución del comercio intrarregional del Mercosur de 2016 a 2020
| Autor | Luciana Aparecida Bastos/Jesus Crepaldi/Rodrigo Monteiro da Silva/Victor Hugo Bartolomeu de Araújo/Aline de Queiroz Pancera/Badar Alam Iqbal |
| Cargo | Universidad del Estado de Paraná/Universidad del Estado de Paraná/Universidad del Estado de Paraná/Universidad del Estado de Paraná/Universidad del Estado de Paraná/Turkish Center for Asia and Pacific |
| Páginas | 147-177 |
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ABSTRACT
The rst attempts at the Latin American integration process
showed a highly pragmatic character, without many concerns
for medium and long-term projects. The main concern was
to expand intra and extra-regional trade. However, since the
1980s (the decade considered the lost decade for Latin Ameri-
ca), when the external debt crises and the adjustment policies
recommended by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) led
the region to a higher poverty rate due to the social costs of
such policies, Latin America has been rethinking its integration.
The creation of LAIA (Latin American Integration Associa-
tion), in 1980, replacing LAFTA (Latin American Free Trade
Association), in 1960, and its sub-regional integration have
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Evolution of Mercosur intra-regional trade from 2016 to 2020
Luciana Aparecida Bastos*
Jesús Crepaldi**
Rodrigo Monteiro da Silva***
Víctor Hugo Bartolomeu de Araújo****
Aline de Queiroz A. A. Pancera*****
Dr. Badar Alam Iqbal******
* University of Parana State. singerlu@gmail.com.
** University of Parana State. jcrepaldi@uol.com.br.
*** University of Parana State. rodrygomsylva@gmail.com.
**** University of Parana State. victor.hugoba@hotmail.com.
***** University of Parana State. pancera.aline@hotmail.com.
****** Turkish Center for Asia and Pacific. badar.iqbal@fulbrightmail.org.
Received: July 9, 2022; Accepted: October 10, 2022
Evolución del comercio intrarregional del Mercosur de 2016 a 2020
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changed Latin America’s economic growth trajectory from
the 1990s.
Within the scope of LAIA, Mercosur was created in 1991,
with the objective of promoting intra and extra-regional trade
expansion through the elimination of tariff barriers among its
members, implementing a Common External Tariff. The full
members of Mercosur are Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and
Uruguay. The bloc also has associated members: Bolivia, Chile,
Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana and Suriname and observer
members, namely Mexico and New Zealand. This work was
developed to verify whether Mercosur, with the elimination of
tariff barriers between full members and the Common Exter-
nal Tariff, has been able to meet its main objective, which is
to expand intraregional trade among its members. Therefore,
the main objective was to verify whether there was trade
expansion between the bloc’s full partners between the years
2016 and 2020.
The methodologies used for this purpose were descriptive sta-
tistics and literature review. Aiming to evaluate the annualized
rate of change of trade in the period covered, it was decided
to use the Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), which is
a differential of this research. The results showed that within
the bloc, Brazil had Argentina as its main trading partner. It
was observed that there was an expansion of intraregional
trade between 2016 and 2018, followed by a considerable
reduction of this trade during the period 2019-2020, but that
Brazil still continued to be the member that obtained the largest
intra-regional trade balances. Paraguay, in turn, did not show
the same trend of commercial reduction for all other partners
in 2019 and 2020. In addition, in 2020, even with the COVID
19 pandemic, Paraguay managed to increase its exports to
Brazil and Argentina, showing a contrary trend only to their
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