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The first detailed historical account of the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) negotiations, this book covers the genesis of the project in the early 1990s to its demise in late 2003. It examines how the FTAA, an Inter-American policy idea, was incompatible with the predominant ideas and beliefs of Brazilian and American decision makers as to how they could and should conduct their countries' foreign trade policy in the Western Hemisphere.

This report describes the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) trade agreement of 2005. The mission of the trade deal is to spread economic growth and democracy through free trade of goods between Central America, South America, the Caribbean and several Western countries.

Since the early 1990s, North Americans have participated in a large
political-economic experiment in a regional trade bloc called the North
American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). With NAFTA now over 10 years old,
the non-NAFTA countries have been debating the merits and shortcomings of
creating an expanded version of the trade agreement that would encompass
virtually every state in the Americas. The Free Trade Area of the Americas
(FTAA) would encompass 34 western hemisphere countries, over 800 million
consumers, and a total economy of over $12 trillion. The debate over the
FTAA raises a long list of important practical questions for each of the
potential member states and their citizens. The debate also raises a host
of pedagogical questions for students of the entire region and beyond.
This paper describes a student-based simulation that taps into those
practical and pedagogical questions. As in other simulations, such as the
Model United Nations, students role-play while vicariously experiencing
the opportunities and constraints facing each country as they negotiate
for policy preferences.

Foreword / Joseph S.Tulchin and Luis Bitencourt -- Preface / Fernando González Guyer -- The MERCOSUR and the Creation of the Free Trade Area of the Americas / Fernando Lorenzo and Marcel Vaillant -- Negotiations of the MERCOSUR with the FTAA and the US / Fernando Lorenzo and Rosa Osimani -- MERCOSUR FTAA Trade: Evolution and Perspectives / Rosa Osimani -- Integration of the Americas: Welfare Effects and Options for the MERCOSUR / Silvia Laens and Inés Terra -- Winners and Losers of a Free Trade Area between USA and MERCOSUR Countries / Marcel Vaillant and Alvaro Ons -- The Sectoral Impact of an Integration Agreement Between MERCOSUR and NAFTA: The Case of the Petrochemical Industry / Gastón Rossi -- The Sectoral Impact of an Integration Agreement Between MERCOSUR and NAFTA: The Case of Frozen Concentrated Orange Juice (FCOJ) / Paulo Fracalanza,Adriana Nunes Ferreira and Marcos Fava Neves -- GATS Commitments and Policy Issues of MERCOSUR and NAFTA Countries / Julio Berlinski -- Negotiating the FTAA between the Main Players: USA and MERCOSUR / Fernando Masi and Carol Wise -- FTAA: Assessments and Perceptions of the Brazilian Government and Production Sectors / João Bosco Mesquita Machado and Galeno Ferraz.