2THE BRAZILIAN TRADE LIBERALISATION: THE REGIONALIZED IMPACTS ON

During the last 8 years Brazil has experiencing a large program of trade liberalisation overture. The paper analyses the regional impact of this process over the so-called textile chain (cotton-textile-apparel) utilising dates of production and sales from 1980 until 1994 for the most important regions productive in Brazil. In a synthesis, the commercial overture that happened in Brazil during the last 8 years didn’t change the structural tendencies in the spatial division of labour of the productive chain of Cotton, Textile and Apparel industries. It incremented the Cotton March to West, the concurrence among decadent textiles regions as Pernambuco, Minas Gerais and São Paulo and those, more dynamics, as Santa Catarina and Ceará. On the other hand those that are still using old technologies, are closing the plants. But the cotton’s farmers paid the price of this adjusting process