CACD Diplomata Practice Questions - CACD - Concurso De Admissão à Carreira De Diplomata (Instituto Rio Branco MRE) Exam

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Following the transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil in 1808 under British naval escort, Prince Regent D. João enacted the landmark decree of the Opening of the Ports to Friendly Nations (*Abertura dos Portos às Nações Amigas*). What was the immediate structural consequence of this decree and the subsequent 1810 Treaties?

The definitive termination of the colonial commercial monopoly (*pacto colonial*) and the granting of preferential 15% customs tariffs to British manufactured goods under the Treaty of Commerce and Navigation of 1810. The total exclusion of British merchandise from Brazilian ports in favor of direct bilateral trade treaties with Napoleonic France. The immediate abolition of all import duties for goods originating from the United States and Hispanic American republics. The establishment of a protective industrial tariff wall designed to foster domestic Brazilian manufacturing in the captaincies.

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