Having the new Brazilian financial insertion as its background, the article investigates the different processes of multilateral and regional negotiation in which Brazil has participated. It intends to understand if the process of financial liberalization was conditioned by outer pressure, concretized in different multilateral and regional fora. It analyzes, then, the three following negotiations of the financial services trade: a) the General Agreement on Trade in Services; the South Common Market (Mercosul), and; c) the Free Trade Area of the Americas (Ftaa).
Brazil; Financial negotiations; Financial services