The IM CEPA is a trade agreement between Indonesia and Mercosur, a South American economic bloc consisting of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay. The agreement was officially launched on Dec. 16 ...

BRASILIA, July 9 (Xinhua) -- Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said Wednesday he will use Brazil's rotating presidency of the Southern Common Market, or Mercosur, to resume negotiations ...

然而，如果说整合汽车产业是“理顺旧账”，那么将食糖纳入共同市场则是在“啃硬骨头”。巴西作为全球排行第一的食糖生产大国以及出口国，其任何开放市场的举动都会引发伙伴国家，特别是乌拉圭和巴拉圭的担忧。这些国家的国内制糖业规模相对较小，担心一旦市场完全放开，本国食糖产业将受到巴西糖巨大的冲击。