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Índice I. OMC _______________________________________________ 2 Full-blown trade war would cost jobs, growth and stability: WTO's Azevedo __ 2 Canada Unveils Plan to Bolster WTO in Face of U.S. Protectionism _________ 3 WTO says it will try to minimize any Brexit pain ________________________ 4 II. NEGOCIAÇÕES REGIONAIS E BILATERAIS _________________ 4 Trump Signs Revised Korean Trade Deal _____________________________ 4 III. OUTROS ____________________________________________ 6 Mercosur y China se reúnen en Montevideo ___________________________ 6 Brazil's Embraer says it cannot yet estimate deadline for Boeing deal _______ 7

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I. OMC Full-blown trade war would cost jobs, growth and stability: WTO's Azevedo Reuters (Reino Unido) A full-blown trade war would have serious effects on global economic growth and there would be no winners of such a scenario, the director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), Roberto Azevedo, said on Tuesday Speaking at a Berlin industry event against the backdrop of growing trade tensions between China and the United States, Azevedo said: “The warning lights are flashing. A continued escalation of tensions would pose an increased threat to stability, to jobs and to the kind of growth that we are seeing today.” A full-blown global trade war with a breakdown in international trade cooperation would reduce global trade growth by around 70 percent and GDP growth by 1.9 percent, Azevedo said. “There would be no winners from such a scenario and every region would be affected,” Azevedo said. The European Union itself would have about 1.7 percent taken off its GDP growth, he said, adding: “Clearly, we cannot let this happen.” Azevedo pointed to several reform proposals that addressed trade-distorting practices and the WTO’s existing mechanisms to resolve trade disputes, adding that members had to agree on which reforms they wanted to focus on. “Clearly, this informed debate is gaining significant momentum and that is positive,” Azevedo said, adding the G20 summit in Buenos Aires in November would be crucial to agree on the next steps to safeguard the rules-based free trade order. “Of course, the system can be better, in fact it must be better. But it’s nonetheless vital. So while we work to improve it and ensure that it’s more responsible to evolving economic needs, we must also preserve what we have - and I count on your support to that end,” he said.

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Canada Unveils Plan to Bolster WTO in Face of U.S. Protectionism Bloomberg (Estados Unidos) The Canadian government released a new blueprint Tuesday to reinforce the World Trade Organization and buffer it from President Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ attacks on the Geneva-based trade body. The proposal, called “Strengthening and Modernizing the WTO,” seeks to forge an alliance of like-minded countries to “restore confidence in the multilateral trading system and discourage protectionist measures and countermeasures,” according to a copy of the eightpage document obtained by Bloomberg. The effort is one of several initiatives aimed at shoring up the WTO as it confronts an array of crises that could ultimately sideline the organization’s role as the arbiter of global trade. Trump has threatened to withdraw from the WTO, repeatedly attacked the organization as being biased against U.S. interests and is slowly strangling the dispute settlement system, which mediates trade disputes that affect some of the world’s largest companies. Trade ministers from the European Union and a dozen other WTO members are expected to discuss the proposal next month when they meet in Ottawa from Oct. 24-25. “We know that the WTO is not perfect, but we know it’s good and we seek to make it better,” Canadian Trade Minister Jim Carr said at Council on Foreign Relations event in New York on Tuesday. “So we’ve invited these like-minded nations from all over the world to see if we can’t come up with a consensus for reform that we will then roll out for other members of the WTO.”

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WTO says it will try to minimize any Brexit pain Financial Post (Canadá) The head of the World Trade Organization says the trade body will try to minimize disruption caused by Britain’s exit from the European Union. Britain is due to leave the 28-nation EU in March. No deal is in place yet on withdrawal terms and the future relationship. Asked about concerns about a “no-deal” Brexit, Roberto Azevedo said at a German business group’s annual conference in Berlin that “clearly there will be an impact, and it’s not going to be a good one.” Azevedo said Tuesday that the role of the WTO will be “to try to minimize the negative effects that this is going to have.” He added that “if we can minimize the disruption, if we can minimize the pain … that’s what we will try to do.”

II. NEGOCIAÇÕES REGIONAIS E BILATERAIS Trump Signs Revised Korean Trade Deal New York Times (Estados Unidos) President Trump signed a revised free trade agreement with South Korea on Monday in New York, cementing the first bilateral trade deal of his administration and suggesting the United States could soon win similar agreements with other trading partners. “It’s a great day for the United States, and it’s a great day for South Korea,” Mr. Trump said during a meeting with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea.

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The revised United States-Korea Trade Agreement includes steps to open up the Korean market to increased American exports, most notably for automobiles, and will allow the United States to continue imposing a 25 percent tariff on Korean trucks until 2041. But analysts said there are few fundamental changes to the existing agreement, which was negotiated under President Barack Obama and which Mr. Trump has blamed for hundreds of thousands of lost American jobs. And they said the revised agreement includes few provisions that will appreciably change the trade balance between the two countries, which Mr. Trump has complained about. For example: The agreement would double a cap on the number of American automobiles that may be easily exported to South Korea, to 50,000 from 25,000 a year per automaker. But no American automaker came close to reaching the existing, lower cap last year. “The president referred to this deal as one of the worst agreements ever,” said Wendy Cutler, a vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute, who helped negotiate the initial Korean agreement as a member of Mr. Obama’s administration. “And if you look at what was agreed to, it doesn’t seem to change the agreement dramatically.” “I view this as a win-win deal, some solid improvements,” she added, “but nothing dramatic.” Business groups cheered the updated pact, but stopped well short of calling it transformational. “Manufacturers were glad to see the president recommit himself to the U.S. trading partnership with Korea today,” said Linda Dempsey, the vice president of international economic affairs at the National Association of Manufacturers. “A robust U.S.-Korea F.T.A. is essential to the jobs of hundreds of thousands of manufacturing workers across America.”

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III. OUTROS Mercosur y China se reúnen en Montevideo El Pais (Espanha) Uruguay será sede de la "reunión de diálogo" entre el Mercosur y China el próximo 18 de octubre por ocupar la presidencia pro tempore del bloque, aseguró ayer el vicecanciller uruguayo, Ariel Bergamino. El objetivo de este evento será el de acercar posturas entre ambas partes en diversas materias, explicó el jerarca a la prensa luego de reunión del Consejo de Ministros de ayer. "Es una puesta a punto de cuál es el relacionamiento, cuáles son las principales tendencias en materia política, económica, comercial, intercambio de información, de opiniones, de sugerencias, y de sensaciones también", declaró Bergamino. Las negociaciones con el gigante asiático se iniciaron en el año de 1997, y se realizaron "unas cinco reuniones" hasta el año 2005, en el que se desactivó el acuerdo por "distintas razones vinculadas a los socios del Mercosur", según explicó el vicecanciller. En esta ocasión, la mesa de diálogo contará con novedades respecto de anteriores ediciones. "A diferencia de las anteriores ediciones del diálogo Mercosur-China que se realizaban a nivel de jefes negociadores, encargados del Mercosur o directores, esta reunión será a nivel de vicecancilleres, concurrirá el primer viceministro de relaciones exteriores de China y también sus contrapartes del bloque regional", aclaró Bergamino. Según opinó, este hecho demuestra la "trascendencia" que se le otorga a esta reunión, que servirá para conocer "hacia dónde y cómo caminar hacia esos objetivos". Por otro lado, el canciller de Paraguay, Luis Alberto Castiglioni, expresó ayer a la comisaria europea de Comercio, Cecilia Malmström, su intención de avanzar en las negociaciones para cerrar un acuerdo entre el Mercosur y la Unión Europea (UE). Castiglioni y Malmström se reunieron en la sede de Naciones Unidas en Nueva York, donde sus respectivas delegaciones participan en la Asamblea General de la ONU, explicó la Cancillería en un comunicado. 6

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El encuentro entre el canciller y la comisaria giró en torno a las negociaciones entre los dos bloques y ambos coincidieron en mantener el diálogo.

Brazil's Embraer says it cannot yet estimate deadline for Boeing deal Reuters (Reino Unido) Brazilian planemaker Embraer SA (EMBR3.SA) said on Tuesday in a securities filing that it cannot yet estimate a deadline for the conclusion of the sale of most of its commercial jet unit to Boeing Co (BA.N). Still, Embraer said it aims to close the deal as soon as possible, regardless of Brazil’s presidential election in October. Under the terms of the proposed deal announced in July, Embraer and Boeing will create a new company controlled by the U.S.-based planemaker.

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