Mercosur

Is this the South American equivalent of the EU? What do South Americans think of it? Isn't it great to be able to move around without a Visa?

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Mercosur is now just a sad joke
In contrast Pacific Alliance its just more promising

But Mercosur has a larger economy?

Just because of Brazil
It has done nothing to make its members into a truly free trade zone
Its more of a protectionist political tool

>Is this the South American equivalent of the EU?
lmao

>now
ayyyyy

Thus desu.
The Pacific alliance is stronger.
And less protectionist.

short answer:
Mercosur is a free trade area* in which any goods** can move freely*** without paying taxes at all**** and where economies are integrated***** at great extents*******, in which the members agreed******** to establish a common set of tariffs**********

*Not quite
**Not all
***There are certain limits
*****There are some exceptions
******Not reallly
*******Some extent
*********actually forced
**********with a lot of exceptions

>Isn't it great to be able to move around without a Visa?
we have that treatment with everyone on the continent

I mean moving permanently. Let's say you live in Paraguay, you could apply for a job in Uruguay and live there, right?

Its shit, instead of allowing for free trade it holds back every country inside of it.

MERDASUR is basically that scene in Pirates of the Caribbean 2 except with 4 pirates instead of 3 (Elizabeth Turner would be Venezuela i guess)
everybody trying to fuck each other instead of doing business as a block

>you live in Paraguay, you could apply for a job in Uruguay and live there, right?
yes but there's no currency equivalent so the cost of living (and yea the salary) is higher with a different coin (from PYG to UYU)

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Mercosur exists because we need to sell our shit we produce to someone, it's just a guarantee that we will make money regardless of a crisis.

Also you can travel anywhere in Sotuh America.

Most of South America, regardless of belonging to Mercosur or Alianza del Pacifico is pretty lax regarding immigration/travel. Those are more like trading blocks rather than full blown unions. No agreements on currencies, fiscal or banking policies, no integration or standardization of a lot of systems. Imagine NAFTA.

Orlando Bloom isn't trying to attack anyone in this pic.

FP BP

couldn't find a GIF of that scene

> Is this the South American equivalent of the EU?
Not 100%

> What do South Americans think of it?
It's shit

>Isn't it great to be able to move around without a Visa?
No, because bolivians and peruvians

>because bolivians and peruvians
mind you this >we have that treatment with everyone on the continent
MERDASUR wasn't part of that issue but Nestor Kirchner's government who disposed it that way

With Colombia joining the OECD we just need Peru to put its shit together join as well and everyone will know who are the guys running the funcional part this shithole

plates r cool.

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>Nestor Kirchner
wasn't the free movement thing a UNASUR product? besides I find it hard to believe that most governments enforced the visa, this free movement feels more as a way to dodge paperwork that they weren't even doing in the first place than a policy made out of pure liberal ideology

shitty car plates

They're more aesthetic than what we had before over here

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You don't have unique designs per region/state/province?

Nope, all nation wide standard
kinda boring tbqh

Thats sad
The new mexico city plates are just plain white and I hate them

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>Gobierno de coahuila
>A fucking dinosaur

>wasn't the free movement thing a UNASUR product?
yes, and who was president when that shit started? NeKi was
gogle up the decree, it's from 2004
>this free movement feels more as a way to dodge paperwork that they weren't even doing in the first place than a policy made out of pure liberal ideology
didn't noticed it until you mentioned it. 2bh it feels that way because there's no real "race" or "refugee" priviledges, just less procedures

>MERCOSUR
THE VIRGINS

>ALIANZA DEL PACÍFICO
THE CHADS

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