Open AccessMERCOSUR common market building:
Author(s) -
Gabriele Orcalli
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
cuadernos de política exterior argentina/cuadernos de política exterior argentina
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1852-7213
pISSN - 0326-7806
DOI - 10.35305/cc.vi128.24
Subject(s) - single market , liberalization , corporate governance , international trade , business , international economics , market integration , regional integration , economic integration , industrial organization , economics , economic system , market economy , microeconomics , finance , european union
My paper addresses the following questions: can MERCOSUR achieve the goal of creating a common market that implies free movement without resorting to governance instruments that require supranational institutions? Can the Mutual Recognition (MR) instrument resolve the problem of divergent standards? Further, in the case of MERCOSUR, can it really be considered a non-supranational governance instrument? In the next sections, I define a common market under a Regional Integration Agreement (RIA), I then address the relationship between standards, technical barriers, and the integration of goods markets, especially in view of the potential trade-off between liberalization and heterogeneity. Finally, I consider the possibility of building a MERCOSUR common market without supranational institutions.