Camarão brasileiro uma análise comportamental dos preços brasileiro e internacional

Abstract

This paper intend to verify the relationship among the levels of brazilian and international price, for each shrimp type in american market, using historical series from January 2000 to December 2005. In this context it tries to identify some well-defined standard about the variables behavior and if these variables follow a common and stable trajectory along the time. The results show the commodity national price influence in the international price variation. However the brasilian shrimp aquaculture entrance in the american market was in a favorable and momentary economic context. Therefore, the successive decreases in the national and international shrimp’s importations prices are results of an adjustment between supply and demand.