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Assessing agricultural trade policies options with the European Union: a Brazilian perspective

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  • Marie Gabrielle Piketty
  • Lucie Weissleder
  • Hildo Meirelles De Souza Filho
  • Mário Otávio Batalha
  • Marcel Adenäuer
  • Arno Becker

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Brazil has shown interest in agricultural trade negotiations at bilateral, regional, and multilateral levels. This study addresses several important negotiations, using the agricultural sector model CAPRI (Common Agricultural Policy Regional Impact Analysis), to analyze liberalization scenarios between the European Union and the Mercosur countries focusing particularly on their impacts in Brazil. Four possible agreements between Europe and Mercosur are simulated, including a broader multilateral agreement proposed in the G20. The results suggest that a bilateral scenario involving larger tariff rate quota increase, as called for by Mercosur, generates larger gains than accepting the European Union proposal of 2004 or further multilateral trade liberalization based on the G20 proposal. However, much larger increases in tariff rate quotas for all products are not necessarily justified in all cases. Moreover, Brazil's production and export potential is limited by factors other than trade restrictions.

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  • Marie Gabrielle Piketty & Lucie Weissleder & Hildo Meirelles De Souza Filho & Mário Otávio Batalha & Marcel Adenäuer & Arno Becker, 2009. "Assessing agricultural trade policies options with the European Union: a Brazilian perspective," Agricultural Economics, International Association of Agricultural Economists, vol. 40(4), pages 447-457, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:agecon:v:40:y:2009:i:4:p:447-457
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-0862.2009.00390.x
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