The MercoNet research activities in the area of trade policy have concentrated on the analysis of tariff and non-tariff barriers in intra-regional trade and with third party countries.
Among the studies, the exceptions of the national tariffs with regards to the Mercosur Common External Tariff were analyzed, as well as the potential impacts of the regimes and special treatments for national imports and/or bilateral preferences.
MercoNet has identified the pros and cons of the selection of the Customs Union model as a form of reconomic integration in the region. Also, it has researched specific sectors such as the liberalizarion of the telecommunications and banking sectors among others.
MercoNet Series N° 14 2008 This book systematically presents the principal dimensions associated with the services trade, particularly the telecommunications and banking sectors, considering international negotiations, domestic regulations and their restrictive effect, the structure and behavior of these activities and the evaluation of the benefits of liberalization with simulations carried out with the use of a computational general equilibrium model.
Serie Red Mercosur N° 8 MercoNet was created in 1998 with the fundamental objective of strengthening and promoting the contribution of economic research to the advancement and strengthening of the integration process in Mercosur. This book, which is the eighth in the Mercosur Network Series, contributes to the consolidation and advances of the bloc on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of signing the Asuncion Treaty (1991). The book synthesizes the research contributions into three fundamental thematic areas:
Serie Red Mercosur N° 5 This book gathers together the results of a research project developed between 2002 and 2003 in the framework of the second cooperation program between the IDRC and the Mercosur Network (Project III – Trade). It was a collective project carried out by seven researchers from the four Mercosur countries.
The research coordinators were Julio Berlinski (DiTella), Honorio Kume (IPEA) and Marcel Vaillant (República). Additionally, Pedro Miranda (IPEA), Alvaro Ons (DECON), Fuida Piani (IPEA) and Carlos Romero (UADE) participated as co-authors of specific chapters. Finally, a group of collaborators who helped with data processing rounded out the team.
This book resulted from a convergence of initiatives conducted by two institutions concerned with the prospects for regional trade integration in the Western Hemisphere: the Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (LAP/WWIC) and Red de Investigaciones Económicas del Mercosur (Red-Mercosur).
The Wilson Center has been paying close attention to the steps toward regional trade and integration following the launch of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) initiative in 1994. Since then, the Latin American Program and since 2000, its project Brazil @ The Wilson Center have hosted a number of seminars on regional integration and the Mercosur, the role of Latin America within the international system, and Brazilian and Argentine approaches to international trade. We have also published three books on the subject: Latin America in the New International System (2000), Paths to Regional Integration: The Case of Mercosur (2002) and The Strategic Dynamics of Latin American Trade (2004)
Serie Red Mercosur N° 3 Perfecting Mercosur implies the elimination of trade restrictions between member countries. Once these traditional tariff restrictions are eliminated, the trade restrictions associated with domestic regulations will receive special attention. For this reason, this book has concentrated on analyzing the less visible boundaries that affect the free flow of goods within Mercosur. Some of these are physical boundaries, such as those related to customs; others are technical, related to domestic regulations or regional regulations not internalized in each country. Finally, there are fiscal boundaries. The potential benefit of removing these restrictions is indicated by their costs
Serie Red Mercosur N° 4 This publication is the result of a joint initiative of the Mercosur Economic Research Network (MercoNet) and the Inter-American Development Bank (IADB). Ten years after signing the Asuncion Treaty, the publication is a contribution on the part of the regional academic community to Mercosur’s development and advancement
