Entraves legais à integração sul-americana

Abstract

In parallel to the multilateral trade liberalization efforts, there is a tendency to create regional trade agreements. Brazil is part of MERCOSUR, the South American integration accord that still faces some legal barriers that prevents it to fulfill its objectives. On one hand, MERCOSUR legislation lacks self-enforceability, which creates a bureaucratic and slow due process for its incorporation into the member’s national legal systems. It also makes the normative internalization open to fleeting national politics. In the other hand, MERCOSUR lacks a strong dispute settlement mechanism, its members having even sought out to other forums to resolve internal conflicts.