Mercosur: The road to economic integration in the southern cone

International Journal of Public Administration

Volumn 23, Issue 5-8, 2000, Pages 1387-1413

  Birch, Melissa H ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

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EID: 84937328636     PISSN: 01900692     EISSN: 15324265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01900690008525506     Document Type: Article

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1. The Common Market of the South is known in Portuguese as Mercosul, but this paper will follow the more common usage and refer to the area as Mercosur.
2. Federico Pinedo was an Argentine economist and minister of finance in the early 1930s and then again in 1940. His ideas on economic integration are found in his book, En tiempos de la Republica.
3. Pinedo. En tiempos de la Republica, II190 as quoted in Alemann, Roberto T. “Sobre uniones, aduaneras y areas de libre comercio. “ La Argentim: Su posción y rango en el mundo de Federico Pinedo y ensayos en su honor, Editorial Sudamericana, Buenos Aires, 1977, p. 40. Translation is mine
4. The Cepalistas were so named because of their affiliation with CEPAL, the Spanish acronym for the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America (ECLA).
5. 1959. The Latin American Common Market, Vol. 59, 1Mexico City: United Nations. II. G.4 as quoted in Wionczek, Miguel S. (ed.). Latin American Economic Integration: Experiences and Prospects, Frederick A. Praeger, New York, 1966, p.4
6. Wionczek. ., 77 Of course, in February 1957, the Treaty of Rome had been signed by the nations of Europe which committed them to a similar project. Quoted material is from
7. The absence of a stronger commitment in the Treaty of Montevideo to economic integration is due to the decision to avert a political crisis by taking a more modest approach since Argentina, Brazil, Chile and Uruguay were poised to sign a free trade agreement in 1959. See Wionczek ., for details.
8. Wionczek. ., 67–104. The characterization of the Treaty of Montevideo that follows is based on
9. Dell, Sidney. 1963. Trade Blocs and Common Markets, New York: Frederick A. Praeger.
10. The IMF argued that Latin American countries were making real progress toward internationally convertible currencies and that, by holding firm on the stabilization programs underway in the majority of Latin American countries at the time, a special payments regime would not be required.
11. For example, the capital goods industry was selected for one of the first protocols because both countries had such an industry but their relative strengths were different. Argentina dominated in the production of custom-made machinery and equipment and products which made intensive use of technology and skilled labor. The Brazilian capital goods industry, on the other hand, was better in areas requiring mass production and more labor-intensive production.
12. Portella de Castro, Maria Silvia. 1992. Mercosul: O Velho Sonho da Integração Latinoamericana?. Latin American Labor News, 5: 14–15.
13. This provision is reminiscent of the payments union that Peron had envisioned as a part of his hemispheric union and it is a direct attempt to confront what had been seen by many as a limiting factor to the success of LAFTA.
14. Portella de Castro. .
15. Initially, Chile refused the invitation to participate; later it became more actively interested. Bolivia worried about being left out of Mercosur because it has significant trading relationships with the Mercosur countries and had considered withdrawing from the Andean Pact in order to participate.
16. The Ouro Preto Protocol of December 1994 provides for a “consultive forum” composed of private sector representatives to put the views of business, workers, and consumers before the MERCOSUR decision-makers. The Ouro Preto Protocol also creates a Joint Parliamentary Commission without decision-making power and whose major role is to “speed internal procedures so as to put into force the norms established” by the decision-making Executive units.
17. 1992. Latinamerica Press, January 16
18. March 1994. March, 35Washington, D.C.: Orbis Publications.
19. 1995. Latin American Weekly Report,: 99