Trade and Industry - Seventh Report
Here you can browse the report together with the Proceedings of the Committee. The published report was ordered by the House of Commons to be printed 22 May 2007.
CONTENTS
Terms of Reference
REPORT
1 INTRODUCTION
Mercosur/Mercosul
Institutions
Brazil's economy
The five year growth plan
Brazil: A BRIC in the wall?
2 BRAZIL & THE UK
UK-Brazil trade & investment relations
Brazil: The challenge for UK companies
UK Trade & Investment (UKTI) in Brazil
Priority sectors
Inward investment from Brazil
Activity of UK countries/regions in Brazil
3 BARRIERS & OPPORTUNITIES
Awareness & local knowledge
Language
Import tariffs & customs procedures
Services
Regulation, licensing & bureaucracy
Labour market
Taxation system
Intellectual Property Rights
Other issues
The Joint Economic and Trade Committee (JETCO):
Tackling barriers bilaterally
An Investment Protection & Promotion
Agreement (IPPA)
A double taxation agreement
Opportunities by sector
Financial services
Healthcare
Environmental technology
ICT
Oil and gas
4 SCIENCE CO-OPERATION
Government science strategy & Brazil
The Global Science & Innovation Forum
(GSIF)
Joint Commissions
Life sciences & UKTI sector strategy
Science & Innovation Network
The UK-Brazil 'Year of Science'
Biofuels & Ethanol
The UK-Brazil-Southern Africa ethanol
partnership
Exploiting bio-diversity
5 Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay &
Venezuela
Trade relations with the UK
Opportunity sectors
Barriers & issues
Uruguay
Paraguay
Venezuela
Bolivia
UKTI resources across the Mercosur countries
6 MERCOSUR'S FUTURE, TRADE
RELATIONS WITH THE EU, & THE DOHA ROUND
Challenges ahead for Mercosur
Imperfect customs union & external
tariffs
Internal asymmetries
A 'South American Community of Nations'?
EU-Mercosur relations
The importance of the Doha Round
CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
FORMAL MINUTES
LIST OF WITNESSES
LIST OF WRITTEN EVIDENCE
LIST OF UNPRINTED WRITTEN EVIDENCE
MINUTES OF EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 208-II)
WRITTEN EVIDENCE - VOLUME II (HC 208-II)
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