Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural

Abstract

MARIOTONI, Marili Arruda and FURTADO, André Tosi. A Organização Mundial do Comércio e as novas oportunidades no mercado internacional para o setor sucroalcooleiro brasileiro. In Procedings of the 5th Encontro de Energia no Meio Rural, 2004, Campinas (SP) [online]. 2004 [cited 09 October 2024]. Available from: <http://www.proceedings.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=MSC0000000022004000100001&lng=en&nrm=iso> .

This main objective of this work is to present the obstacles to the Brazilian participation in the international ethanol and sugar market, specially in the European Union. Therefore it is emphasysed the main reasons which conduct Brazil to discuss in the International Trade Organization the production quota system impositions and the heavy subsidy exportation used in the European Union. In despite of improving the negotiation arguments, it has been felt at the most recent International Trade Organization meeting that the Brazilian interests has got to confront international barriers to punish the Brazilian sugar with an high tax importation as in the European Union. Due to those difficulties, the possibility of opening a larger ethanol market, mainly in those countries which wish to reduce pollution emission, mixing anhydrous alcohol to gasoline appeared as a good alternative. Actually the European Community members have strategic reasons to maintain the sugar production subsidies. Brazil and most of the European Community members have been discussing an agreement to reduce the subsidies . The brazilian victory on the appeal made in the International Trade Organization, on august the 4^rd; against the subsidies to the sugar conceded by EU, provoked rejection of many.

Keywords : Agroindústria Canavieira; Organização Mundial do Comércio; Açúcar. Álcool; Mercado Internacional.