1. Mariantonia Mejía - Vanessa De Lima - Carolina Del Gallego - María J. Díaz Tagle

2. 1960’s  Integration Efforts
1985 The bilateral program of integration
and cooperation known as PICAB.
1991  Founded by theTreaty of Asuncion
1994’s Treaty of Ouro Preto
1999  There is a duty free zone among its
members with the exception of sugar and
automobiles.

3.  The official languages are Portuguese and
Spanish.
 The four member nations represent 59% of the
land mass of Latin America.
 Headquarters (secretariat): Montevideo,
Uruguay
 Combined GDP: US$ 1.1 trillion

4. MERCOSUR is oriented to develop the
economies of its members making them
more internationally competitive.
Promote free trade and the fluid movement
of goods, people, and currency.

5. BRAZIL
ARGENTINA
PARAGUAY
URUGUAY
VENEZUELA

6. COLOMBIA
BOLIVIA
CHILE
MEXICO
ECUADOR
PERU

7. Mercosur  Customs union  Argentina,
Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay.
Mercosur Eliminates the majority of tariffs
among the four member states as well as the
two associate member nations.
Members Common external tariffs
throughout the region  Stimulate
interregional growth and investment.

8.  MERCOSUR  Strategy of commercial opening 
implemented a very active politics of external relations
across negotiations with other countries or groups of
countries.
 Preferential agreements with different countries and blocs.
 ECA’sAgreement Mercosur, Chile and Bolivia naming
"Associate States " to the bloc.
 Agreement of Cooperation as forTrade and Investment
between the MERCOSUR and the members of the Common
CentralAmerican Market (MCCA).

9.  Andean countries
 Bolivia
 Chile
 Peru
 Israel
 Egypt
MERCOSUR as economic bloc has been developed free
agreements with different countries and other economic
blocs.

10. Source: IMFDirection of Statistics- DoTS

11. Source: IMFDirection of Statistics- DoTS

12. 5% 4%
12%
10%
33%
36%
Mercosur Imports
2009 Plastic and
manufacture
Millingproduction
(wheat)
Cereal (wheat, rice)
Fuel (nafta, oil)
Vehicles and its
parts
Other
7% 3%
5%
2%
11%
23%
49%
Mercosur Exports
2009 Machinery
(cellphone)
Plastic and
manufacture
Machinery (Motor)
Steel and Iron
Fuel (Energy, gasoil,
fueloil)
Vehicles and its parts
Other
Source: IMFDirection of Statistics- DoTS

13. Source: IMFDirection of Statistics- DoTS

14. Source: IMFDirection of Statistics- DoTS

15.  Currently there has been a move to expand MERCOSUR
with Chile and also to integrate with NAFTA, North
American FreeTradeAgreement creating a FreeTrade
Agreement of theAmericas (FTAA), which would dispell
both NAFTA and MERCOSUR.
Foreign Ministers of MERCOSUR
approves the Political Agreement
PARLASUR, which establishes a
new structure for Mercosur.