“…In that year, the president created the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade to foster exports (Presidência da República, ). Furthermore, aligned with the export‐led strategy, the 2000–2003 national development plan reiterated the need to increase exports and to deepen integration with international partners, especially MERCOSUR members (Presidência da República, ; Lessa et al, ). It was not only industry that benefited from the more assertive approach, as Brazil's disputes in WTO panels showed (Goldstein and McGuire, ).…”