摘要：By the end of the 1980’s Brazil changed the profile of its commercial relationships becoming mainly an exporter of manufactured products. The US, being an important trade partner has played a big role on that change, especially regarding manufactured products, whose evidence has suggested a growing weight of an intra-industry relationship between the two countries. This paper aims at assessing the intensity of that trade pattern between Brazil and USA from 1990 to 2007 through the Grubel - Lloyd index at the level of two and four digits following the NCM nomenclature. This analysis has highlighted products with Grubel Lloyd index equal to or higher than 0.7, related to those products whose value comprises more than 70% of the total commercial flow between Brazil and USA. Despite the trade of many items is described by inter-industry relations, most of the value exchanged between these two countries, throughout the years under scrutiny, is increasingly defined in terms of intra-industry trade, given the analysis of specific groups of product.
其他摘要：By the end of the 1980’s Brazil changed the profile of its commercialrelationships becoming mainly an exporter of manufactured products. The US,being an important trade partner has played a big role on that change, especiallyregarding manufactured products, whose evidence has suggested a growing weight of an intra-industry relationship between the two countries. This paper aims atassessing the intensity of that trade pattern between Brazil and USA from 1990 to2007 through the Grubel - Lloyd index at the level of two and four digits followingthe NCM nomenclature. This analysis has highlighted products with Grubel Lloydindex equal to or higher than 0.7, related to those products whose value comprisesmore than 70% of the total commercial flow between Brazil and USA. Despite thetrade of many items is described by inter-industry relations, most of the valueexchanged between these two countries, throughout the years under scrutiny, isincreasingly defined in terms of intra-industry trade, given the analysis of specificgroups of product.
关键词：Bilateral Trade;Intra-industrial trade;Brazil – US trade relations;Comércio bilateral;Comércio intraindustrial;Relação Brasil – EUA
其他关键词：Bilateral Trade; Intra-industrial trade; Brazil – US trade relations
