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    United States Seeks To Expand Trade Partnership with Brazil

    01 June 2006
    United States Seeks To Expand Trade Partnership with Brazil


    Commerce Secretary Gutierrez visiting Brazil June 5 through June 8

    By Eric Green
    Washington File Staff Writer

    Washington -- U.S. Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez is making a June 5-8 trip to Brazil with the goal of expanding U.S. trade with the South American nation.

    Briefing reporters June 1, Gutierrez said he seeks to follow up on a U.S.-Brazil "commercial dialogue" on economic cooperation that President Bush established with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio "Lula" da Silva when the two met in Brazil in November 2005. The Commerce Department said Gutierrez will begin his trip in Rio de Janeiro, followed by stops in Brasilia and São Paulo.

    The purpose of the commercial dialogue is to address the issues "that are getting in the way" of the U.S.-Brazilian economic relationship, Gutierrez said.

    The United States and Brazil are already important trade partners, the secretary said, but "we believe there's more we can be doing" to create jobs and promote in the two countries.

    To illustrate, Gutierrez said the value of two-way per capita trade between the United States and Brazil in 2004 was one-third below that of U.S. per capita trade with Chile in the same year, and about one-fourth below that with Mexico.

    Gutierrez said the U.S.-Brazilian commercial dialogue features several key issues, including business facilitation and promotion to improve both nations' ability to move goods more efficiently across international borders.

    The dialogue also includes export and investment promotion. "We believe we can do more to promote exports from the United States to Brazil," and vice-versa, Gutierrez said.

    A third area, he said, involves protecting intellectual property rights. The United States plans to provide technical cooperation between the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and its Brazilian counterpart "on best practices, enforcement, and sharing information" towards the shared goal of creating what Gutierrez termed an "intellectual property violations-free-environment."

    STATUS OF THE FTAA

    Regarding the status of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Gutierrez said the failure to reach agreement on enacting the hemisphere-wide pact is a "missed opportunity" for the region. Gutierrez cited the successes of the North American Free Trade Agreement, involving the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and a U.S.-bilateral trade pact with Chile as examples of how the FTAA could improve the lives of the hemisphere's 800 million people.

    In the absence of an FTAA, Gutierrez said the United States would continue to pursue bilateral free-trade pacts with "those partners who want to build a stronger economy."

    Gutierrez said the United States recently signed a free-trade pact with Peru and is discussing similar measures with Ecuador and Colombia. President Bush met with Panamanian leaders in 2005 to discuss the possibility of a U.S.-Panama free-trade agreement.

    Gutierrez said that "we would hope that one day we will have" an FTAA. Such an agreement, he said, would be good for creating jobs, prosperity, and providing for “social justice” in the hemisphere.

    For more on the FTAA and U.S. trade policies with the Americas, see Regional Trade. For more on U.S. policy toward Brazil, see Brazil and the Southern Cone.

    (The Washington File is a product of the Bureau of International Information Programs, U.S. Department of State. Web site: http://usinfo.state.gov)

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    Regarding the status of the proposed Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), Gutierrez said the failure to reach agreement on enacting the hemisphere-wide pact is a "missed opportunity" for the region. Gutierrez cited the successes of the North American Free Trade Agreement, involving the United States, Mexico, and Canada, and a U.S.-bilateral trade pact with Chile as examples of how the FTAA could improve the lives of the hemisphere's 800 million people.

    In the absence of an FTAA, Gutierrez said the United States would continue to pursue bilateral free-trade pacts with "those partners who want to build a stronger economy."

    Gutierrez said the United States recently signed a free-trade pact with Peru and is discussing similar measures with Ecuador and Colombia. President Bush met with Panamanian leaders in 2005 to discuss the possibility of a U.S.-Panama free-trade agreement.

    Gutierrez said that "we would hope that one day we will have" an FTAA. Such an agreement, he said, would be good for creating jobs, prosperity, and providing for “social justice” in the hemisphere.
    Successes, What successes? Oh, all of the lost American Manufacturing jobs. He calls that a success. What is his definition of failure?


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    It will never be any good opportunity for the region. It will be a good opportunity for the Brazilian politicians who are as corrupt as the one in Mexico. The Brazilian people (the ones luck enough to get a job) will go on working for a few pennies a day, while the politicians and the multinationals operating there will fatten their pockets.

    Just now the Brazilian economy is very good and the country has a big supply but the job situation is worse than ever, especially in the Northeast of the country, one of the poorest area in the world. There is no interest of the government to improve their lives, creating jobs and taking care of their education and health. These are the least concern of the government.

    It will be like NAFTA to Mexico, because the illegals from Brazil are not going to stop coming here. Just now Brazilian illegals are only second to the Mexican here in Florida. I do not think anybody in Pompano Beach speaks English; it is Portuguese from morning to night seven days a week. And, how they hate America and the word "assimilation"!

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    Gutierrez said the U.S.-Brazilian commercial dialogue features several key issues, including business facilitation and promotion to improve both nations' ability to move goods more efficiently across international borders.
    exactly what goods does Brazil have to trade? it appears border crossings are the most important issue
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