Como as exportações chinesas deslocaram as exportações brasileiras na América Latina no período 2000-2009

Abstract

Do Chinese exports displace Brazilian exports? This dissertation analyzes whether this actually occurred in the Latin American market during the 2000-2009 period. To identify how this shift occurred, the number of products exported by both countries and the indicators of similarity, quality and variety of exports between the Brazil and China were analyzed. Both countries have increased the number of products exported to Latin America market, however, China increased it in a greater proportion. The index of similarity between the Brazilian and Chinese exports basket reached 28.9% in 2009, indicating that the exports have become more similar. The quality index was positive during whole period, indicating that, on average, Brazilian exports were of better in quality than the Chinese exports. The positive variety rate during the whole period shows that the variety of Brazilian products is higher than the Chinese products, namely, that Brazil exports more goods than China, however, for the past three years the tendency is to fall in products variety.