Mercosur/EU trade and Euro crisis, in President Rousseff agenda in Brussels

Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 05:24 UTC

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The Mercosur-EU trade agreement is one of several issues Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff will be addressing Monday in Brussels during the fifth Brazil-EU summit. Rousseff begins in Belgium an official visit to Europe that also includes Turkey and Bulgaria. Read full article

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GeoffWard2
Dilma wants walls but she need doors in the walls.

Protectionism is not a Mercosur matter, it is a national matter now Argentina has started destroying Mercosur to serve its own (selfish) interests.

So now Brasil will create bi-lateral deals on a significant number of commodities with a significant number of EU players. Both parties need each other.

The complexities of these (and many other Mercosur national) deals will be such that the Mercosur trading protocols will never be written . . . Can never be written . . . unless all these deals are unpicked in subsequent negotiations.
This will, of course, never happen.

Rest In Peace the GRAND HOPE that once was South America and its catalyst for its future, Mercosur.
Oct 03rd, 2011 - 10:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
You cannot have “free trade” with bogus free traders.
Dilma is protecting her country, what is her job, from neo liberals (bogus free traders) who want to use Brazil and other merging nations as markets to outgrow themself out of this mess. That's not going to happen and it seems it makes geoff very sad (what is good news).

Geoff, they protect themself just like how the bogus advanced nations also protect themself with currency manipulation. Get that into your thik head what you miss.
Oct 04th, 2011 - 04:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
By failing to work together as a powerful trading bloc, the Mercosur nations will loose MUCH more than they might have gained. And what they might have gained was a tremendous amount.
It remains to be seen if Brasil recognises the new reality and closes its borders to free passage of traded goods between itself and AR, PA, and UR because, at the moment, these countries are just a back-door rar-run to get Far Eastern (etc) goods into Brasil, avoiding import duties.
Oct 04th, 2011 - 04:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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