U.S: international trade policy formulation process

summary: The research aims to identify how the formulation and decision-making process occurs in the United States regarding its international trade policy, highlighting its consequences and implications for developing countries, especially for Brazil. It seeks to understand how international institutions help to promote United States trade policy in contemporary international relations and to verify how developing countries' reaction strategies to the developments and impacts of United States trade policy are organized.. As a practical example, both the issue of adoption, by the government of George Walker Bush, in the first semester of 2002, of a set of measures aimed at protecting the North American steel sector from international competition, regarding the response of Brazilian actors to this initiative.