Primeira valorização do café: Convênio de Taubaté (1906 – 1914)

Abstract

The First Appreciation was a period of the Brazilian economy quite important for understanding the development of the country. Accepting the amount of sugar and cotton was needed in one product to run with the agro-export model, but different from other products, or coffee already had a firmer restoration, despite starting to use slave labor and soon after move to a salaried workforce, or that took a whole procedure and articulation. In addition, a number of interests cause changes to occur, the interests of Greater Coffee Capital had greater political power, access to credit, and already had a major change that was not only in coffee farming, although its use was due a constitution of the coffee crop. In the case of Lavoura, it gets its income only from its own coffee production, is recovered in the capital market, which includes coffee or bread retailer for higher prices, realism specification, has not yet had access to easy credit like Big Capital. Coffee tree. In addition, the main concern was the exchange rate following the financial system of the time, the gold standard, leading a series of debates and getting the Conversion Box approved later after the Coffee Appreciation Plan in the United States. molds of interest of the elite, who do not want currency devaluation but exchange appreciation. American diplomacy presents its view that it is not favorable, being the largest consumer, an appreciation of higher prices, leading Brazil to offer preferential prices to the US, so that the plan has a better use. The objective of this paper is to understand how this valuation plan came about and what the vision of American diplomacy was, if it came to a conclusion that was the vision of pessimism, especially after receiving the information that São Paulo undertakes alone and also after Brazil loses. Partner with a financial home that offers the loans.