Mercosur: Economic indicators and trade with EU

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TitleMercosur: Economic indicators and trade with EU
Degree of recognitionInternational
Media name/outletInfographics
Media typeWeb
Country/TerritoryBelgium
Date10.12.19
DescriptionMercosur, the ‘southern common market’, was founded in 1991 when Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay signed the Treaty of Asunción. In 2012, Venezuela formally joined Mercosur as a fifth member, but in December 2016 the country was suspended temporarily for failure to transpose Mercosur rules into Venezuelan law. In August 2017, the suspension was prolonged indefinitely. This paper presents economic indicators for the four members, for example showing their GDP and labour market situations, and it also shows those countries’ relative positions on several indexes that assess the situation in terms of doing business, corruption and human development. Finally, it looks at trade between the EU and Mercosur – of both goods and services – highlighting the main trading partners, and the main products and services that the EU exports to and imports from the four Mercosur members.

(http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2019/644191/EPRS_ATA(2019)644191_EN.pdf)
Producer/AuthorThe European Parliamentary Research Service (EPRS)
URLhttps://epthinktank.eu/2019/12/11/mercosur-economic-indicators-and-trade-with-eu/
PersonsOlga Griaznova, Giulio Sabbati
Period10.12.2019
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