{"id":387204,"date":"2025-05-05T16:11:17","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=387204"},"modified":"2025-05-05T16:11:27","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T19:11:27","slug":"uae-mercosur-deal-expected-this-semester","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/uae-mercosur-deal-expected-this-semester\/","title":{"rendered":"UAE-Mercosur deal expected this semester"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 The free trade agreement between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mercosur.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mercosur<\/a> and the United Arab Emirates is expected to be concluded this semester, according to a statement released on Friday (2) by the Mercosur Foreign Ministers following a meeting held at the Foreign Ministry of Argentina, which currently holds the bloc\u2019s presidency, in Buenos Aires. The document also says that the goal is to sign the agreement with the Arab country and with the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) in 2025, as well as to finalize the agreement with the European Union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign ministers of Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Paraguay, and Bolivia met to continue discussions on Mercosur and the prospects for regional integration. In the statement, diplomats also emphasized the need to \u201cprioritize and promote external negotiations with commercially relevant countries for all partners during the second half of this year.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negotiations with the UAE officially began in July of last year. The agreement is expected to cover goods, services, rules of origin, technical barriers, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and intellectual property. Among Arab countries, Mercosur already has an agreement in place with Egypt. In April, Brazil also ratified the bloc\u2019s agreement with Palestine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The meeting in Buenos Aires was attended by Argentina\u2019s Foreign Minister Gerardo Werthein, Brazil\u2019s Foreign Minister Mauro Vieira, Bolivia\u2019s Foreign Minister Celinda Sosa, Paraguay\u2019s Foreign Minister Rub\u00e9n Ram\u00edrez Lezcano, and Uruguay\u2019s Foreign Minister Mario Lubetkin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trumps-tariffs-fuel-trade-agreements\/\">Trump\u2019s tariffs fuel trade agreements<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-387196\">Supplied\/Mercosur<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercosur foreign ministers\u2019 statement indicates talks will conclude soon, with the agreement set to be signed later this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":387196,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[53096,53097,53094,9534,48848,53095,48455,576,50828,2610,9356,9579,5570],"class_list":{"0":"post-387204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-argentine-2","9":"tag-blocs-2","10":"tag-bolivia-3","11":"tag-brazil-en","12":"tag-buenos-aires-2","13":"tag-efta-3","14":"tag-egypt-2","15":"tag-european-union","16":"tag-free-trade-agreements","17":"tag-mercosur","18":"tag-paraguay","19":"tag-uae-en","20":"tag-uruguay"},"wps_subtitle":"Mercosur foreign ministers\u2019 statement indicates talks will conclude soon, with the agreement set to be signed later this year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=387204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/387196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=387204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=387204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=387204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}