Consumer’s defense code and Mercosul: variations in their coexistence

Abstract

With the process created by the Cold War conjunction, in which the evolution of economic integration and communitarian reality are noticed, there is evidence of the problematic of becoming closer, the harmonization and unification of the legal structures of the States, often to the detriment of the development of the block. The study, having as its object the Consumer’s Defense Code and MERCOSUL, points to the intended goals and to the differences, which exist between these two manifestations of the juridical word. The first one aims at protecting consumers in their vulnerability and hypo-sufficiency, whereas the second one presents as goal the economic integration among the peoples gathered by the geographical proximity, in the Southern Cone. The work presents these two realities closely related from the analysis of their respective origins, from the exam of the development of each one, as well as of the course that they are led, reaching the present stage of the relations established by them at the end of the article.