O comércio exterior brasileiro no âmbito do Mercosul

Abstract

This monograph is intended to analyze how the regional integration process that generated the creation of Mercosur took place, and to expose the importance that this bloc has within the Brazilian Foreign Policy. For that, the precedents of integration, the historical origin of the bloc, the institutional development process and the characterization of the different phases of the bloc were exposed. The general objective of this work is to analyze the commercial exchanges between Brazil and the other Mercosur members, from the Regional Integration process, contemporary characteristic of the International System. This work is also concerned with analyzing trade flows between Brazil and other Mercosur member states, collecting trade data through the main foreign trade databases. Regarding methodology, this work stands out for its qualitative and also quantitative method, since it uses official websites, mostly within the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) environment. In synthetics, the reports were taken from the ministry's main page, and the data, from the ComexStat platform, also made available by the MDIC. Among the results found, one can observe the leadership role that Brazil plays in the region, whether in the political or commercial sphere. Brazil is the great commercial partner of all member states, and responsible for absorbing most of the real estate in the region. Likewise, in the political sphere it is also a protagonist, most of the time dictating, together with Argentina, the pace of institutional development in the bloc.