Brazilian business community demands the country signs trade accords with third countries
Brazilian businesspeople and diplomats expressed their disappointment with Mercosur and said it was crucial for Brazil to sign free trade agreements on its own with third countries, which under current rules of the South American trade block are not allowed.
“Mercosur is too much self absorbed because is ceased to be a trade agreement and has become an ideological agreement”, said Jose Augusto de Castro, president of Brazil’s Foreign Trade Association.
Representatives from different manufacturing sectors and agri-business said it was an immediate priority to establish trade agreements with countries or blocks, and criticized the fact that Brasilia was submitted to Mercosur clauses and the extreme positions of Argentina, which “only helps to put obstacles to an agreement with the European Union”.
Mercosur and the EU have been in negotiations for a cooperation and free trade agreement since 1999, but talks are again stalled over agriculture subsidies and limited market access for EU manufacturing and services.
Thiago Mason, head of the International Affairs Department from the National Agriculture Confederation considers Brasil has lost to the US which only recently announced it is beginning trade talks with the EU.
Sergio Amaral, a former diplomat and official from the government of ex President Fernando Henrique Cardoso said that “the weight of Mercosur has eased, and is far less important for Brazil” that a few years ago.
“Brazil is Mercosur largest country and if it really wants it can reverse the clause” that limits signing trade accords with third countries but President Dilma Rousseff does not have the political will to do so”, said Jose Botafogo Gonzalvez former ambassador in Argentina under the administration of former President Cardoso.
Diplomat Botafogo Gonzalvez considers Brazil must adopt a more aggressive policy in the global market particularly in a moment when Washington is involved in the Pacific basin but has also announced plans to create a free trade area in the Atlantic with Europe.
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At last a forward looking country in S America.
i thought they already had agreements with argentina,whats the problem??
Why does Latin America complain about Argentina's extreme position?
Could it be because we KNOW who YOU are dealing with?
We know the Europeans, we know the North Americans, the Chinese. They are consumate cheaters, and are out to destroy your industries and agriculture. That is why we are intransigent and that is why we forbid the rest of Latin American from signing trade deals.
But we can't make you follow our foreign policy forever, so if you want to destroy your economies, go ahead. Just remember you will NEVER grow wealthy by singing free trade with the UE, EU, China. NEVER.
“That is why we are intransigent and that is why we forbid the rest of Latin American from signing trade deals. ”
“Forbid the rest of Latin America.” Oh dear, oh dear!
I am sure the Brazilians are quaking in their boots at the thought of upsetting these arrogant has beens.
Forbid! That's a good one. Up there with their other favourite, Demand!
Got to love them. Hours of entertainment. LMAO.
Yes interesting that Argentina (in the minds of some Argentineans) is forbidding other Latin American countries from signing trade deals. But what do you expect when this is their worldview:
“Just remember you will NEVER grow wealthy by singing free trade with the UE, EU, China. NEVER”
NEVER appeared twice and was capitalised for emphasis.
Someone obviously forgot to tell Chile:
China-Chile free trade agreement
European Free Trade Association-Chile free trade agreement
Australia-Chile Free Trade Agreement
Canada–Chile Free Trade Agreement
European Union-Chile free trade agreement
United States-Chile Free Trade Agreement.
Chile should know better. You can NEVER grow wealthy with all these signed agreements. And yet they are wealthier than Argentina!
Next theory please!
As many clear thinking Argentines have said, “We needed the economic reforms of the Pinochet era”, though obviously not the dictatorship.
Mercosur is an ideological organization taken over by an agenda(socialist –communist) run by all the thugs from Bolivarian countries.
Jealous Argentina just wants to pull everyone else down with it.
Looks like Mercosur is finished:
- Brazil feeling hampered and confined
- Paraguay out - looking for new alliances
- Venezuela - New direction, historic changes coming with Chavez gone
- Chile paying lip service
- Argentina restricting/taxing imports and exports, agricultural products not reliably regulated, cannot meet financial commitments
Why let Argentina screw it up for everyone else, just for her vanity?
Troy, you are a good person. Thanks. The world need persons like you!
the nations of South America are destroying themselves and being destroyed by associating with this self-destructive country.
Don't let yourselves be taken down, you are worth more than that.
No one cares what Argentina, Venezuela, Ecuador or Bolivia do. All of their economies are failing, they're run by Presidents for Life, rampant corruption and scofflaws. They don't bring anything to the table and should be left to their own devices.
Bye Bye and good riddance.
Someone is fucking jealous that some of us want nothing to do with your has-been country. Keep hating.
“Someone is fucking jealous that some of us want nothing to do with your has-been country. Keep hating.”
You sound very hateful and angry yourself, but nobody puts any stock in your perspective.
I'm aware of that. I was just highlighting a flawed theory. Chile's Pacific Alliance is much more outward looking and it is interesting to note that the growth rates in Pacific Alliance members is so high.
Outward looking not inward looking!
We speak the same language.
We will look inward thank you. We don't trade with cheaters and have-been countries.
That sounds like Argentina.
Wonder what the WTO will say?
We should be finding out soon enough
I wonder when Ford and GM will pack up?
Probably when inflation reaches 100%
So sometime next year
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Especially since it worked and got you to the site.
It explains a lot.
But nothing I didn't already know
Probably best if it is the latter.
Eventually, Brazil will get frustrated and leave, due to internal pressures, political or economic.
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