The European Union and the Mercosur are actually negotiating an inter-regional Free Trade Area, even though the conditions of access of Latin American products to European market are relatively restrictive. In a matter of fact, the European Union's Commercial Policy is very discriminatory and is...

The present article is a review of some recent works on the effects of the FTAA and the EU-Mercosur agreement on the Brazilian economy. We present these works' main results, emphasizing their methodological differences and limitations. Their results seem to be very diverse and very sensible to...