8'LATEINAMERIKA KONFERENZ DER DEUTSCHEN WIRTSCHAFT

1
8.LATEINAMERIKA KONFERENZ DER DEUTSCHEN
WIRTSCHAFT
WORKSHOP I MARKET ACCESS STRATEGIES EU
MERCOSUL A INCREASING COMMON MARKET?
Ingo Plöger
MEBF-Mercosul European Business Forum
2
EU - MERCOSUL - A INCREASING COMMON MARKET/

• Mercosul - a Region, a Market , a Location
• Economic relations between EU and Mercosul
• The new prospective between Mercosul/EU
• Opportunities for German activities in Mercosul

MEBF
3
Mercosul - a Region, a Market , a Location
Data year 2001 - CEPAL
MEBF
4
INTRABLOC COMMERCE MERCOSUL
MEBF
5
ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EU AND MERCOSUL
Import/Export Analyses
Source EUROSTAT, IMF,WEFA
MEBF
6
ECONOMIC RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN EU AND MERCOSUL
FDI inflows to Mercosul
Source IADB and (1) 1996/2000BCB
MEBF
7
Mercosul Countries FDI from Major Sources

MEBF
8
MERCOSUL- OPPORTUNITIES FOR GERMAN ACTIVITIES

• STRENGTHEN THE MERCOSUL
• New impulse from new governments
• Creation of Instituto Monetário do Mercosul
• The technical Secretary of Mercosul
• Business Facilitation Measures
• Agribusiness Committee of Mercosul
• Common Agenda of negotiations

MEBF
9
THE NEW PROSPECTIVE OF THE MERCOSUL RELATIONS

• GROWHT IN THE FIRST QUARTER 2003
• Argentinas economy is picking up
• Brazils Economy showing strength in the
  fundamentals,
• increasing confidence and returning
  investments
• Paraguay and Uruguay are stabile
• Optimism in new frontiers like Exports,
  Agribusiness, Steel,
• Pulp and Paper, Petrochemicals, Bioenergies.

MEBF
10
THE NEW PROSPECTIVE OF THE MERCOSUL RELATIONS

• EU- MERCOSUL NEGOTIATIONS
• February proposal shows the willing to prosper
• Mercosul opens 83 of the negotiated
  products
• EU opens 91 of the negotiated products
• Critical point is the Agriculture Agenda
• EU and Germany must have interest to solve this
• issue

MEBF
11
MERCOSUL- OPPORTUNITIES FOR GERMAN ACTIVITIES

• Following growing sectors
• Steel, Petrochemical, Pulp and Paper,
  Bioenergies
• IT Service
• Preparing to participate in large scale Projects
• Infrastructure (Airports,Ports,Railways,Wate
  r Treatment,
• Transports, Highways)
• Energy (Hydro, Thermo, Alternatives,
  Transport)

MEBF
12
MERCOSUL- OPPORTUNITIES FOR GERMAN ACTIVITIES

• Innovative Sectors
• Biotechnologies
• Clean development Mechanism (Carbon Trade)
• Bioenergies
• New Frontiers Agribusiness
• Cooperation with Mercosul Companies to attend
• third markets ( China, USA, Latin America,
  Japan and India )
• Import substitution Programs
• Electro electronic
• Chemical and Pharma
• Special Machines and services
• Private Public Partnership

MEBF
13
EU- Mercosul a increasing common market?Yes

• WE HAVE A LOT OF OPPORTUNITIES
• AS ENTREPENEURS WE LIKE TO FACE CHALLENGES AND
• TO TAKE GOOD RISK.
• LETS THE HOPE OVERCOME THE FEAR!

MEBF