Mercosur and Uruguay experiences

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Mercosur and Uruguay experiences
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Trade and Industrial strategies

• Integration experience in the region
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• Eighties crisis
• 1985 Democracy and regional integration

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• Nineties a new regional integration option.
• MERCOSUR
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• 99 / 2002 Mercosur countries crisis
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• Exploration of other options
• Open markets in the world
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• Back to the region, looking for further markets.
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Current options

• Mercosur - deepening of the process.
  Consolidation of the Custom Union
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• Free trade with other countries in Latin American
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• Mercosur negotiation with other areas (EU)

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• FTAA
• WTO
• Uruguay Expansion of trade with other countries
  (NAFTA, China, M. East, EU)

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Industrial development tools

• Industrial integration
• MERCOSUR avenues
• -         Productions Complementaritys (Asunción
  Treaty).

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• - Regional Investment (public and private
  sector responses)
• -         Public iniciatives (Cadenas de
  competitividad wood and furnitures).