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Topic: Mercosul

	Embassy of Brazil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The hi-national and multi-national infrastructural projects linking the countries of Mercosul and the rest of South America are a pole of attraction for investment with the prospect of greater benefits for the countries and consumers of the region.
		Mercosul is not only seeking to become consolidated internally as an economic bloc but is also looking to expand its foreign relations and enhance its importance on the international scene.
		One of the specific effects of the FTAA's negotiations with Mercosul is the decision by the member countries (to avoid the diluting effect) to accelerate accords aimed at deeper forms of integration, exemplified in the agreements reached last December in the services and social welfare area (agreement on social security).
	www.brasilemb.org /embassy/embaixador_regional.shtml (2545 words)

	Inmetro - Mercosul and the Technical Barriers
		Mercosul member countries have created a working subgroup seeking to eliminate possible technical barriers that could emerge in their market trade.
		The treaty creating the Mercosul was signed in Asuncion, Paraguay, on March 26, 1991, by the four-member countries - Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
		Within the Mercosul structure, there are currently 14 working subgroups.
	www.inmetro.gov.br /english/international/mercosul.asp (149 words)

	NeMe: 6th Mercosul Biennial, 2007
		The curatorial project for the 6th Mercosul Biennial is therefore inspired by the metaphor of the Third Shore of the River, an image taken from the famous story by Guimarães Rosa, which has been adopted for the 6th Mercosul Biennial.
		In addition to the exhibitions, the 6th edition of the Mercosul Biennial lays emphasis on the actions of the education programme, a cornerstone of this edition.
		This show at the 6th Mercosul Biennial will be the first exhibition in Brazil of the work of Öyvind Fahlström, who is the only Brazilian artist to have been honoured with solo exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art in New York (MoMA), the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.
	neme.org /main/690/6th-mercosul-biennial-2007 (2430 words)

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		Mercosul has as its purpose the co-ordination of macroeconomic and sectorial policies; the free transit of goods, services and means of production; the establishment of joint customs duties; and the adoption of a common commercial policy towards other countries and communities.
		The Protocol of Dispute Settlement, signed by the signatory countries of Mercosul in Brasília on 17 December 1991 and promulgated in Brazil by Decree 922 of 10 September 1993, recognises the importance of the Treaty of Asuncion and is an effective mechanism to guarantee the accomplishment of the treaty.
		Mercosul 2000 also foresaw the diffusion of regional arts, improvement of health, improvement of the quality of education, strengthening of science and technology, elaboration of agreements on intellectual property and special treatment for matters related to immigration.
	www.noronhaadvogados.com.br /ing/guia/negociosnobrasil_ing/lg5e/cap06.htm (5009 words)

	Mercosul and Supranationality - How to Overcome Brazilian Constitutional Obstacles
		MERCOSUL as an International Legal Entity was recognized, which means that it provides the bloc with the capacity of acquisition of rights and the submission to obligations as an legal person apart from the countries that form it.
		MERCOSUL remains submitted to the ruling of Public International Law, where treaties are governed by the domestic constitutions of each country.
		Mercosul and Uniao Europeia, Curitiba, 1996; GUIMARAES, Samuel Pinheiro.
	www.hottopos.com /harvard4/max.htm (8712 words)

	International Journal of Government Auditing: Regional cooperation and supreme audi institutions (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Mercosul was created in 1991 when Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay signed the Treaty of Asuncion, with the objective of establishing a common market in the region.
		An evaluation of the efficiency in the flow of information between the Mercosul member States and the administrative secretariat of the Mercosul, as well as a seminar in Buenos Aires, in September, to discuss the experience of the SAIs of the European Union are also being implemented.
		Furthermore, the Mercosul SAIs and the SAIs of Bolivia and Chile recently approved the creation of an Executive Office to coordinate the cooperative actions in undertaken within the region; its headquarters will be in Brazil for three years.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3662/is_199710/ai_n8766024 (1397 words)

	:: Consulado Geral da Índia ::
		MERCOSUL has become a guardian of democracy for South America as vindicated in the case of Paraguay when a military coup attempt was stopped by the combined democratic forces of MERCOSUL.
		MERCOSUL 1991 193 1069 79 85 (Brazil, Argentina, 1995 Paraguay and Uruguay)
		MERCOSUL has reinforced the stability of this region and is contributing to the growth and prosperity of the member countries.
	www.indiaconsulate.org.br /comercial/info_sobre_mercosul/inexpapr.htm (12749 words)

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		Mercosul also contributes to the political stability in the region, by strengthening democracy and promoting interdependency among its members.
		An important example of this approach is the decision to coordinate our macroeconomic policies, which emphasizes Mercosul’s role in the consolidation of sound national policies and in the strengthening of the region’s credibility.
		Mercosul is firmly committed to this objective, but much will depend on the developed countries’ willingness to negotiate.
	www.un.int /brazil/speech/02d-ltcm-57agnu-com-int-des-english-1211.htm (1123 words)

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		The norms emanating from MERCOSUL need, for their validity in the territories of the four party-States, to be incorporated in the national juridical systems, in accordance with the procedures established in each country system.
		The Arbitral Tribunal of Mercosul, foreseen in the Protocol of Brasília, is the final instance for the settlement of conflicts among the member-States.
		And the objectives of Mercosul, as indicated in the Preamble of the Treaty of Asuncion, are much wider, including improvement in the conditions of its citizens' lives.
	www.gwu.edu /~ibi/minerva/Spring1999/Almir.Rocha.Filho.html (9592 words)

	English Section/Economic Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The fact remains, however, that all of this is due to the obvious difficulties currently endured by the economies of both Brazil and Argentina.
		Regarding the Menem government's seemingly passive/apathetic/[fill in the blank] attitude before the greatest Mercosul crisis ever, Palacios points out that the word around town is that silencing is consenting.
		Di Tella has met with the Brazilian Ambassador to Argentina, Sebastião do Rego Barros, in order to discuss the issue, and has further affirmed that Mercosul will stand despite the current torments, for the considers that "the political reasons for the countries to remain in Mercosul are super-determinants".
	txt.estado.com.br /english/economic/eco990730.html (1065 words)

	1st EDUCATION JOURNEY IN REMOTE SENSING IN THE MERCOSUL SCOPE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		MERCOSUL's social-political-economical panorama imposes the need to form enabled professionals to undertake analysis, elaborate diagnosis and propose solutions for concrete problems, in a multi and intersubject perspective.
		One way to attenuate this problem would be to cadaster all remote sensing titled personnel and their availability to act in specializing course modules, optimizing the use of this personnel and to make dynamic remote sensing specialization.
		Common to most MERCOSUL member-countries, were efforts to enabling still are disperse and little known, especially in the regional and national context.
	www.ltid.inpe.br /selper/ingles/ingles.html (3232 words)

	The EU's relations with Mercosur - Meeting of Heads of State and Government from Mercosul and Chile and from the EU
		The Heads of State and Government agreed that the expansion of trade, through the development of free-trade between Mercosul and Chile and the European Union, constitutes a central element in the construction of a more dynamic relationship, in the promotion of their integration processes and in the strengthening of the multilateral trading system.
		With this purpose, they agreed to launch negotiations between Mercosul and Chile and the European Union aiming at bilateral, gradual and reciprocal trade liberalisation, without excluding any sector and in accordance with WTO rules.
		They expressed their expectation that this process shall be concluded within three years and that its results should strengthen the multilateral trading system and prepare it for the challenges of the forthcoming century.
	europa.eu.int /comm/external_relations/mercosur/ass_neg_text/press_rel_rio.htm (449 words)

	:: Consulado Geral da Índia ::
		The worry, uppermost in the minds of the Mercosul leaders during the Asuncion Summit was the crisis situation in their countries and Mercosul as a whole.
		The Mercosul Forum, which is a body consisting of businessmen of Member-states of Mercosul, had held some meetings during this period and prepared documents giving proposals on integration of Mercosul and coordination of macro-economic policies.
		The Milk Producers’ Associations of Mercosul countries have agreed to pressure their governments to increase the Common External Tariff on import of powdered milk and cheese to 30% from the current tariff of 16%.
	www.indiaconsulate.org.br /comercial/info_sobre_mercosul/mercosul7.htm (7879 words)

	People's Daily Online -- Mercosul summit opens with Chavez's controversial declaration
		The XXXII Summit of South American Common Market (Mercosul) opened on Thursday in Rio with a controversial declaration of Venezuelas President Hugo Chavez that he wants to decontaminate Mercosul from economic liberalism.
		Chavez was responding to critics who said Venezuelas entering in Mercosul would reduce the groups credibility internationally, due to that he expressed intention to implement the so-called " 21st century socialism" in Venezuela.
		There is a clear perception that Mercosul is not only about the southern region, but actually about the whole South America.
	english.people.com.cn /200701/19/eng20070119_342654.html (209 words)

	H.E. Dorothea Werneck (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		MERCOSUL, with an annual GDP of over $750 billion, constitutes over 80% of the total GDP of Latin America and the Caribbean, excluding Mexico.
		The liberalization process in trade, business and finance, as well as the measures taken to privatize and streamline the size of the public sector, are factors that have attracted a growing interest from business executives in the industrialized countries.
		As the relationships among and between the MERCOSUL Member countries deepen, so do their trade partnerships, both with the countries of the Americas and with the rest of the world.
	www.mac.doc.gov /ftaa2005/FORUM/agreemt3.html (1119 words)

	Brazil News Highlights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BRAZIL is the powerhouse of the South American economies and the ideal gateway to the Southern Cone Common Market, the trade organization established in 1991 to increase economic cooperation among the countries of South America.
		It is commonly known as Mercosur or Mercosul, from the Spanish and Portuguese names respectively.
		Mercosul's powerhouse, Brazil, is poised to become the leader of a stronger southern cone common market and is eying Africa China as a prime customers of capital goods and commodities
	www.bbnglobal.com /news_highlights.htm (187 words)

	Opening of the General Debate of theFifty
		MERCOSUL gives living and concrete expression to economic integration and open regionalism and represents one of the creative force at work in the Americas.
		Now firmly rooted, in the process of expanding, and acting as an important partner of a growing number of countries and regional groups, MERCOSUL is a positive response by South American countries to the challenges and opportunities of today’s world.
		Achievements such as MERCOSUL and the Community of Portuguese-speaking Countries enhance the credentials of their members and help to make of their presence in the world an instrument for economic development and social progress.
	www.un.int /brazil/speech/96d-lfl-51agnu.htm (2748 words)

	Brazil Trade Patterns and Regional Economic Integration - Flags, Maps, Economy, History, Climate, Natural Resources, ...
		By the mid-1990s, trade with the other Mercosul partners, particularly Argentina, was one of the most rapidly growing sectors of Brazilian foreign trade.
		These reductions were to be calculated as a percentage of the lowest tariffs applied to members outside the Mercosul group and were based on the ALADI tariff classification.
		Indeed, Mercosul and the European Union (EU, the former EC; see Glossary) have been discussing the creation of a free-trade area between the two groups.
	www.photius.com /countries/brazil/economy/brazil_economy_trade_patterns_and_r~233.html (2888 words)

	Polaris Institute - Public Service Workers Project (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Mercosul idea is for a three-track (or three-tier) process.
		Mercosul encompasses Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay, with Bolivia and Chile as associate members.
		Uruguay, a member of Mercosul, is however much cooler on the less ambitious three-track idea, and yesterday produced the equivalent of a minority report supporting the US proposal of a full-bore
	www.polarisinstitute.org /polaris_project/public_service/news/FTAA_update/US_rejects_FTAA_light.html (603 words)

	MERCOSUL - Mercado Comum do Sul
		The MERCOSUL is a free trade treaty between its member countries.
		This document establishes the minimum required regulations to be followed by member countries of the MERCOSUL for issuers of securities (companies), investment funds, exchanges and brokers, independent auditors, and systems for clearing, settlement, and custody.
		Another significant document for capital markets was the CMC's Decision no. 13/94, which harmonizes the content and characteristics of the quarterly and annual reports disclosed by public companies issuing securities.
	www.cvm.gov.br /ingl/inter/mercosul/Merco-e.asp (458 words)

	Economics
		The creation of Mercosul, the regional economic integration project negotiated between 1991 and 1994 with Argentina, Paraguay, and Uruguay, has spawned a considerable amount of new, increasingly complex literature that covers nearly all areas of economic activity and regulation.
		The construction of Mercosul’s legal framework is analyzed (items bi 94016566 and bi 96009557), as are the regulation of investment in the four countries (item bi 94009573), and the impacts on specific sectors, including agriculture (items bi 96015068 and bi 95022779) and the automobile industry (item bi 96009562).
		Other policy issues are studied in the context of the post-1950 import-substitution-industrialization period, including US investment (item bi 97006110), indexation (item bi 97006149), the relationship between public and private sectors (item bi 95007955), the ethanol program (item bi 96009855, bi 95014518), and the Carajas project (item bi 95015235).
	lcweb2.loc.gov /hlas/ss57econ-birch.html (526 words)

	Alert from Via Campesina Brazil on EU-Mercosur negotiations
		The bioregional Agreement between Mercosul and the European Union presents, since its conception, an "exchange" between the offensive interests of Mercosul in Agriculture, with dreams of expanding its sales in Europe, and the hand over of our markets to European industrial and service companies.
		One of the most worrying and pathetic cases is the case of milk, which is considered by Mercosul a sensitive product and has now an import tariff of 27% for the European milk to enter in Brazil and in Mercosul.
		Mercosul offered preference for the Europeans, in relation to other countries and regions, for public purchases through the mechanism of consultation and transparency.
	www.bilaterals.org /article.php3?id_article=785 (1898 words)

	Export America/New Opportunities Archive
		MERCOSUL is composed of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay, with Chile and Bolivia as associate members.
		MERCOSUL is the world’s second largest customs union and fourth largest consumer market.
		As a free trade area, products assembled in the MERCOSUL territory can circulate tariff-free if not less than 60 percent of the FOB export value of the final product is composed of materials originating from a member state.
	www.export.gov /exportamerica/NewOpportunities/no_brazil_0704.html (3506 words)

	Inventory of Dispute Settlement Mechanisms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Complaints submitted by the National Sections of the Mercosul Trade Commission and originated by States Parties or individuals, whether natural or legal persons, in accordance with the provisions of Article 21 of the Protocol of Ouro Preto shall be subject to the procedure laid down in this Annex.
		The Mercosul Trade Commission shall rule on the complaint at its first ordinary meeting following receipt of the joint opinion or, should there be none, the conclusions of the experts, although an extraordinary meeting may also be convened for the purpose.
		If a consensus cannot be reached at the first meeting mentioned in Article 4, the Mercosul Trade Commission shall submit to the Common Market Group the various alternatives proposed, together with the joint opinion or the conclusions of the experts on the Technical Committee, in order that an appropriate decision may be taken.
	www.sice.oas.org /cp_disp/English/MER.asp (2664 words)

	BBCBrasil.com \| Reporter BBC \| Mercosul quer crédito especial do FMI, diz Mantega
		Segundo o ministro, os países do Mercosul estão em dia com o FMI e com a “economia arrumada” e o Fundo deve aumentar sua “vigilância” sobre os países mais ricos, que não estão cumprindo seus príncipios de equilíbrio fiscal e das contas externas.
		Durante a reunião do Mercosul (que contou com a estréia da Venezuela como quinto membro pleno), em Córdoba, a ministra Felisa Miceli fez a sugestão a Mantega.
		Lula diz que Mercosul não deve ter ideologia.
	www.bbc.co.uk /portuguese/reporterbbc/story/2006/07/060724_mantega_carmo.shtml (789 words)

	BBCBrasil.com \| Reporter BBC \| Mercosul vai monitorar eleições no Brasil
		Cada um dos cinco países-membros do Mercosul indicará um integrante do órgão, que pretende ser uma espécie de "vigia interno" da obediência às regras democráticas.
		Com o Observatório do Mercosul poderemos estar presentes e verificar a transparência das eleiçõs", afirmou Alvarez, referindo-se às acusações de fraude na apertada eleição presidencial mexicana.
		Alvarez viajará a Brasília daqui a duas semanas para discutir com integrantes brasileiros as prioridades para a presidência temporária do Brasil no Mercosul, que vai deste mês de julho a dezembro.
	www.bbc.co.uk /portuguese/reporterbbc/story/2006/07/060728_eleicoesmercosulmcaf.shtml (412 words)

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