Análise do comércio de pescado entre Brasil e os Estados Unidos

Abstract

This work has as objective estimate the offer and demand equations fish traded between Brazil and United States in the period between 1996 and 2006. The variables included in the model were: marketed amount, price, per capita income of the American and the exchange rate of the period. In agreement with the obtained results it can be concluded that the demand and the fish offer are elastic, so that an increase in the price of the product provokes more variations than you provide in the marketed amount. In relation to the income, it is verified that, in the North American market, the Brazilian fish is considered inferior. Since 2003 the value of Brazilian exports of fish to the United States has decreased, which may be assigned, the devaluation of the American currency in relation to the real, which reduces the competitiveness of Brazil in the North American market. Further devaluation of the national currency may encourage those producers to bring more Brazilian products on the international market.