The Federal Government receives on Tuesday (16), in Rio de Janeiro, the signing of the free trade agreement between MERCOSUR and EFTA – While already estimated earnings with the partnership. In addition to increasing exchanges, technicians from the Ministries Esplanade expect the deal to give Brazil a “quality seal”.
Norway’s EFTA, Switzerland, Iceland and Liechtenstein is considered an “demanding” economic block, from the quality of the goods to the goods to phytosanitary and environmental requirements. So, the opening of this mercado It is a kind of “seal” to Brazilian products.
This “reputational” gain is especially important for the Brazilian agribusinessthat not rarely in recent years has to defend requirements met by their goods.
Secretary of Trade and International Relations of the Mapa (Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock), Luis Rua highlighted in an interview with CNN that the agreement brings, besides the “quality seal”, benefits For markets of High added value – that generate more job and innovation.
Are among the segments with the highest potential to increase their sales to these Europeans beef and poultrybesides coffee, orange juice and from ETANOL, for example. The beef gained a quota of three thousand tons zero aliquot; A thousand tonne poultry meat highlights the secretary.
MERCOSUR-EFTA
The Mercosur-EFTA agreement creates a free trade zone with almost 300 million people and a Combined GDP more than $ 4.3 trillion. The idea of the deal is that both blocks benefit from greater market access For over 97% of its exports.
To Brazilian productss, free trade access to EFTA markets will reach almost 99% of the exported value, covering the universes agricultural and industrial. The European bloc, for example, will eliminate 100% of tariffs of import of the industrial and fishing sectors.
In 2024, Brazil exported US $ 3.1 billion and imported US $ 4.1 billion in EFTA goods.
Estimates indicate a positive impact of R $ 2.69 billion on Brazilian GDP and an increase of R $ 660 million in investment by 2044.
It is also estimated to impact R $ 2.57 billion on total imports and R $ 3.34 billion over total exports, resulting in an estimated balance of R $ 770 million for Brazil.
