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Brazil: promising noises on trade, but structural hurdles persist

While Brazil’s government is talking a good game on trade, the reality remains that the economy is among the most closed in the world. This is due in large part to structural problems that previous governments, which have been equally pro-trade, have found difficult to shift.

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