The EU-Mercosur Trade Agreement: the Beginning of a New Era for the EU-Mercosur Relations?

This work explores and reviews the main thrust of the EU-MERCOSUR trade agree- ment (namely the EU’s largest trade agreement) and of its related annex chapters and protocols as concluded and publicized by the EU Commission in 2019. After having succinctly described the political climate within which this trade agreement and its an- nexes came about, this work analyses the potential novelties and changes in the MER- COSUR-EU trade cooperation regime as compared to the EU-MERCOSUR Framework Cooperation Agreement. The implications of these novelties and changes for the future of the MERCOSUR-EU trade relations and for the profile of EU external trade cooper- ation will also be considered and critically discussed.