A Política Agrícola Comum da União Europeia e seus efeitos sobre as exportações de frango brasileiras

Abstract

The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) was created in 1962 to guarantee sufficient food quantities and safety to European citizens, and also to ensure to the farmers a standard of living equitable to other economic. After fifty five years, CAP keeps the essence of its original structure with the implementation of protectionist measures to products from other countries. Therefore, the aim of this work is indicate the evolution of the European Union Common Agricultural Policy and its impacts on Brazilian exports of chicken meat. The hypothesis put forth that: I. CAP origin was primarily understood as a matter of food safety and over time, due to pressures of certain groups with political influence, had its structure and financing modified in order to make it a system with objectives aiming at the protection of the domestic market. II. CAP imposes tariff and non-tariff barriers on chicken meat and such protectionist measures affect Brazilian exports of poultry. This research has as justification the need to understand the main reasons for the decrease of chicken meat exports from Brazil to European Union, since the south American country is the main supplier of this product to the bloc. To achieve these goals, the hypothetical-deductive method was chosen and an exploratory research with bibliographic review and analysis of European Union documents related to the object of study was carried out.