The liberalisation of trade in services in MERCOSUR
- ISBN: 9781905017843
- Editorial: Cameron May Ltd.
- Fecha de la edición: 2009
- Lugar de la edición: London. Reino Unido
- Encuadernación: Cartoné
- Medidas: 23 cm
- Nº Pág.: 380
- Idiomas: Inglés
This book contrasts the rhetoric of economic integration propagated from the highest political circles with the reality on the ground, taking trade in services in the Southern Common Market ( MERCOSUR ) as a case study. In 1991 Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed in Asuncion, an ambitious sub-regional integration agreement aimed at the establishment of a common market facilitating the free movement of goods, services and factors of production, the establishment of a common external tariff and the co-ordination of macroeconomic and sectoral policies. Yet, almost two decades after the entry into force of the Treaty of Asuncion, MERCOSUR remains an incomplete free trade area, with a partially implemented Common External Tariff and with a significant divergence in the macroeconomic policies of the State Parties.
