Interdependência estrutural entre a produção e a demanda no Mercosul

This article characterizes, in Mercosur, the intersectorial relations between the final demands and the production. For this: (a) it shows the structure of the input-output model of Mercosur (1990) and;( b) it evaluates the inducted production by the final demand. It was verified, in relative terms, a bigger insertion of the Uruguayan and Chilean economy in the international market in relation to the economies of Argentina and Brazil. The coefficients of the inducted production, in general, suggests that the increase of the final demand of the countries results in a greater increase of the production in the domestic industries. The infra-structure of production in Argentina, Chile and Uruguay the activities that stand out the most are the industries of cattle raising and the primary resources; in Brazil, contrary to those characteristics, the exportations are diversified, other industries include stronger components of light and heavy secondary industries of long scale. In occurrence with these f acts, the structure of the inter-regional transactions, there exists inequalities on the beneficial effects that the countries make good use of. Therefore, it concludes that the politics performed to distribute and/or to manage in a better way the benefits of the production among the countries must be based in products that are linked to key-sectors.