FROM THE AGREEMENT TO OTHERS, UE- MERCOSUR

In the midst of the United States tariff, the government is early celebrating two important trade agreements for Brazil, which are the conclusion of MERCOSUR's agreement with the EU and EFTA, Switzerland, Norway and others. These agreements came out more because of the needs of our partners to increase their business with MERCOSUR than for us to have the opportunities to sell more to these countries. The agreement with the Europeans, which met a lot of resistance, came out because they pushed down the cloth clauses that guarantee European farmers their privileged status without allowing us to move forward with our agricultural exports. More or less like this: if you want the agreement, that's how we can do it. If you don't like it, there's no agreement. And the anxious Brazil, negotiating for 25 years, wanting to show that it does not depend only on the USA, and before the Americans pressure Europeans not to make the agreement, it accepted to show how efficient this government is.

The agreement has to be good for both sides. The fact is that both Europeans and Swiss and Norwegians are better prepared to take advantage of the agreements than both Brazilians and other MERCOSUR partners. In addition to being our important business partners, they are great investors. Their companies survived the Matarazzo and many other companies and did not give up on Brazil. They learned to deal with bureaucracy, corruption, and the particularities of the market. And the profits generated in Brazil have always been important for the headquarters. And let's be clear, there are few countries in the world that allow the foreign investor so many facilities, incentives, money transfers, royalty payment and a market of 210 million people like Brazil. The gringo here is at home.

It is worth mentioning here the case of Norway, a kingdom with the largest sovereign fund in the world, a large investor in the area of energy and metals in Brazil, with much greater interests in the Amazon than Brazil itself. The Amazon fund, which also has the participation of Germany, is not to protect the Amazon for Brazilians, but to protect Norwegian capital there. Under the mantle of lamb are wolf policies, do not forget that the Nobel Peace Prize is given by Norway, which, either we do not understand, or we accept because some have interest.

But the most worrying thing is that we signed these agreements but we have no development plan adjacent to these instruments. We will succumb to the plans of stronger partners, even in the opening of markets. That is, they, with the crisis of their companies, which will transfer technologies and analog generation equipment to Brazil, will dictate our development because we have no plan but to clap when we offer them more facilities, more resources, more subsidies, more market. This is the reality of our future. And China quietly hopes that this will bear fruit.