Investing in Trade Diplomacy and in Trade Facilitation: The Growth of Brazil’s Exports

Abstract

Brazil has recently signed the Trade Facilitation Agreement of the WTO. After decades of negotiations, the developing countries were able to include some special time-framing articles when the article came into force. In the present paper, there is an exploration of how Brazil’s greater participation in the global economy and diplomatic investments have contributed to its importance in political discussions at the World Trade Organization. The aim is to explain how diplomacy and trade facilitation have helped to boost Brazilian exports in the last 29 years of the WTO. To take this reasoning, it is necessary to analyze Brazil’s technical investments in its diplomatic staff, how the political importance of developing countries has grown in recent decades at the WTO and the importance of diplomatic continuity at international organizations. When it comes to Brazil’s political influence on international society, diplomatic history can provide many answers to the country’s economic strategies. Through the deductive method, there will be a discussion of how some important figures, such as Celso Amorim, paved a way for Brazil to achieve solid prominence at the WTO and then numerous other Brazilian representatives have insisted on this successful project, which has still a long way to go.