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GTAP Resource #1330

"Integration of The Americas: Welfare Effects and Options for The MERCOSUR"
by Laens, Silvia and Maria Ines Terra


Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to assess the costs and benefits of the creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) and other integration options for the MERCOSUR with the other countries in the hemisphere. The GTAP, a multiregional, multisector CGE model is used to simulate the effects of several scenarios that are currently on debate.
The existing preferences, granted by previous agreements under the framework of the Latin American Integration Association (LAIA), and the preferential treatment granted by the USA through the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) and the Andean Trade Preference Act (ATPA) are taken into account. The analysis decomposes the effects of the FTAA in order to assess the importance of market opening and market access and identifies the net effect of trade creation and trade diversion.
Additionally, the FTAA initiative is decomposed in possible subregional agreements among the countries involved (MERCOSUR – Andean Community, MERCOSUR – USA, etc. The assessment includes the estimation of the welfare effects in case the agreement does not include the agricultural sector. All the results are presented for the MERCOSUR as a bloc and for each of its members.


Resource Details (Export Citation) GTAP Keywords
Category: GTAP Application
Status: Published
By/In: MERCOSUR Economic Research Network
Date: 2003
Version:
Created: Bacou, M. (6/18/2003)
Updated: Bacou, M. (6/18/2003)
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