Brazil fits, along with other Latin American countries, into a "national-dependent development", in which they continue to present various degrees of cultural dependence in relation to the central countries. The country's exports are presented as a strategic focus among macroeconomic policies, in order to overcome the underdevelopment, through the improvement of exports’ quality and economic integration could contribute to this process by breaking out of the vicious circle of dependence on the central countries. The purpose of this research is to analyze the Brazilian exports to MERCOSUR between 1997 and 2016.