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Decree No. 6196, August 22 2007

Original Language Title: Decreto nº 6.196, de 22 de Agosto de 2007

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DECREE NO 6,196, DE August 22, 2007.

Disposes about the execution of the First Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 55, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (States Parties to MERCOSUR) and the United States Mexicans, July 10, 2007.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution conferring you the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution, and

Considering that the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, which created the Association Latin American Integration (ALADI), signed by Brazil on August 12, 1980 and approved by the National Congress, through Legislative Decree no 66 of November 16, 1981, provides for the modality of Economic Supplementation Arrangement ;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic Argentina, the Republic of Paraguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (States Parties to MERCOSUR) and the United Mexican States, on the basis of the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, signed, on September 27, 2002, in Montevideo, the Agreement of Economic Supplementation No. 55, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (States Parties to MERCOSUR) and the United Mexican States, published by the Decree no 4,458, November 5, 2002 ;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic Argentina, the Republic of Paraguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (States Parties to MERCOSUR) and the United Mexican States, based on the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, on July 10, 2007, in Montevideo, the First Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 55, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (States Parties to MERCOSUR) and the United States Mexicans ;

DECRETA:

Art. 1st Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 55, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay, the Eastern Republic of Uruguay (States Parties to MERCOSUR) and of the United Mexican States, apse by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.

Art. 2nd This Decree comes into effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, August 22 of 2007 ; 186º of Independence and 119º of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

This text does not replace the published in the DOU of 8/23/2007

ECONOMIC SUPPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT No 55

CELEBRATED BETWEEN MERCOSUR AND THE UNITED STATES MEXICAN

First Additional Protocol

The Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of the Brazil, of the Republic of Paraguay, of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties of MERCOSUR and of the United Mexican States, accredited by their respective Governments, second powers bestowed in good and due form, in a timely manner deposited in the Secretarial-General of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI),

Considering the importance of empowering America's integration process Latin, in order to achieve the objectives of the Treaty of Montevideo 1980 ;

Convinced of the importance of counting with a legal milestone that propicie the development of trade relations between the Parties ;

Reiterating the desirability of offering economic agents clear rules and predictable, which enable the development of trade and economic supplementation ;

Confirming the provisions regarding reciprocal access of goods automotive provided in Appendices I, II and IV of the Economic Supplementation Agreement in the 55 ; and

Conscious of the importance of preserving and extending trade currents existing between MERCOSUR and the United Mexican States,

CONVEEM IN:

Article 1st Modification Article 5th of the Economic Supplementation Agreement In 55, celebrated between MERCOSUR and the United Mexican States (ACE 55), which goes on to have the following essay:

?Article 5th Contracting Parties shall establish the free trade of products automotive understood in the letters a), (b), e), f) and (g) of the Article 3rd in a gradual manner, after a transition period since the entry into force of this Agreement until June 30, 2011. During the transition period provided for in this paragraph, the provisions set out in the bilateral Appendices shall regulate trade between the Signator Parties mentioned in each of them, in matters of access to markets, tariff preferences and technical regulations

With respect to goods included in the letters c) and (d) of Article 3rd, the Parties Contractors will establish the free trade of these goods, in a gradual manner, after a transition period since the entry into force of this Agreement by the first of July 2020. The Contracting Parties shall, no later than December 31, 2009, agree on the programmes, modalities, quotas and deadlines for the free trade in goods included in the letters c) and (d) of Article 3rd of this Agreement, which shall constitute the Programme of Commercial Liberalization for these goods. Such a programme shall enter into force no later than the first of July 2010 and shall provide for a maximum period of 10 years for the transition to free trade, which may be reduced by agreement of the Contracting Parties. For these purposes, Governments will promote meetings between their private sectors in order to get to know their opinion no later than December 31, 2008.

With respect to the goods included in the letter h) of Article 3rd, the Contracting Parties shall establish the free trade of such goods, in a gradual manner, after a transitional period from the entry into force of this Agreement to the date which accompanies the Parties, as they determine the coverage of such letter. During the transition period provided for in this paragraph, the provisions set out in the bilateral Appendices shall regulate trade between the Signator Parties mentioned in each of them, in matters of access to markets, tariff preferences and technical regulations

The Signatory Parties referred to in the bilateral Appendices will be able, at any time, to amend, by common accord, the provisions in them, as well as to incorporate in their fields of application automotive products listed in Article 3rd of this Agreement, by communicating such modifications to the other Signatary Parties.?

Article 2nd The present Protocol shall enter into force between Mexico and each State Part of MERCOSUR, respectively, on a period not exceeding thirty (30) days counted from the date of the corresponding notification to the General Secretariat of ALADI, by the United Mexican States and the State Party of MERCOSUR of which it is concerned, of the completion of the legal formalities required for its

Article 3rd The General Secretariat of ALADI shall be depositary of this Protocol of which it will send duly authenticated copies to the Governments of the signatory countries.

IN FIS OF THAT, the respective Plenipotentiaries sign this Protocol, in the city of Montevideo, at the ten days of the month of July 2007, in an original in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, both of which are equally valid texts. (a.:) By the Government of the Argentine Republic: Juan Carlos Olima ; By the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil: Regis Percy Arslanian ; By the Government of the Republic of Paraguay: Marcelo Scappini Ricciardi ; By the Government of the East Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Rodríguez Gigena ; By the Government of the United Mexican States: Perla Carvalho.