O mercado de carne bovina no Brasil: os efeitos da eliminação das barreiras tarifárias e não-tarifárias

This paper analyses the possible impacts of tariffs and nontariffsbarriers elimination on beef market in Brazil. To evaluate theeffects of free trade is used a spatial model formulated as Mixed ComplementaryProblem (MCP). We simulate four sceneries to achieve thispurpose: the first simulates the elimination of all trade barriers in amultilateral scope; the second simulates the free trade area creationbetween Mercosur and EU countries. The third simulates the free tradearea formation between the America countries (FTAA); and the fourthconsiders the elimination of Foot and Mouth Disease in Mercosur countries.In the beef market it is not enough eliminate the tariffs barriersto stimulate the beef production and exportation in Brazil. The majorgains occurs in sceneries where is eliminated the non-tariffs barriers.