| Summary: | Brazil has increased more and more to your participation in the world market. Historically, the State of São Paulo is the largest national producer and exporter of flowers and derivatives. However, in the State of Ceará floriculture, enlarges your participation within exporter from 1990, showing increasing levels of market share in exporting trade. In this way, the question is about the behavior of the Brazilian Export segment. This article aims to analyze the general trend of comparative advantages of the States of Ceará and São Paulo in world trade of flowers between the years of 1997 to 2014. The methodology consists in calculating the Vollrath’s revealed comparative advantage index. The database was obtained through the MDIC/SECEX with information about revenue and quantities exported flowers of the two states analyzed. The results show that the Ceará increased participation in scenario exporter from 2000, obtaining the second position in total revenue of flower’s exports. These results, coupled with the higher relative presence in exporting trade, allowed the Ceará widen your competitiveness in the trading of flowers in the recent period.
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