DECREE NO. 4,144, OF February 25, 2002

Disposes on the execution of the Thirty-fifth Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, between the Governments of the Republic Federative of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, of August 29, 2001.

THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the exercise of the post of President of the Republic, using the assignment that confers you the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution,

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

Whereas, based on the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18 was struck by the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, in Montevideo on November 29, 1991, and incorporated into the Brazilian legal planning by means of the Decree No 550 of May 27, 1992;

Considering that it was signed, on November 20, 2000, in Montevideo, the Twenty-Fourth Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, incorporated into the legal Brazilian by means of Decree No. 3,757 of February 21, 2001, which adapts certain aspects of the ACE-18 origin regime;

Whereas, in accordance with the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay struck on August 29, 2001, in Montevideo, the Thirtieth Fifth Additional Protocol to the Complementation Agreement Economic No. 18, pertaining to special import regimes and source requirements (MERCOSUR-Resolution GMC No 27/01);

D E C R E T A:

Art. 1º The Thirty-fifth Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, of August 29, 2001, apensed by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as in it contains.

Art. 2º This Decree enters into force on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, February 25, 2002; 181º of Independence and 114º of the Republic

MARCO ANTONIO DE OLIVEIRA MACIEL

Osmar Vladimir Chohfi

ECONOMIC COMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT NO. 18

CONCLUDED BETWEEN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY

Trigth Fifth Additional Protocol

The Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, accredited by their respective Governments second powers which were bestowed in good and due form, deposited opportunely in the General Secretariat of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI),

HAVING IN VIEW OF Resolution 27/01 of the Common Market Group.

CONSIDERING that by the CMC Decision No. 31/00 have been extended the special import schemes involving in total or partial suspension of customs duties that record the temporary or final import of goods and which are not aimed at the passive enhancement and further reexport of the resulting goods to third countries; and

Which for the purposes of the application of the schemes to which reference CMC Decision No. 69/00 was decided to establish conditions of origin for marketing in MERCOSUR from a reduced list of products;

ARISE IN:

Article 1º-Approving the source requirements listed as Annex and are part of the present additional protocol, which will apply until December 31, 2005.

Article 2º-The signatory Countries will download instructions to the entities and accreditation bodies authorized in their respective countries so that the certificates of origin that are issued from the date of entry into force of this protocol shall adjust to the prevailing provisions.

Article 3º-Origin certificates issued before the date of the entry into force of the present protocol will be valid as long as they present themselves before the customs service of the importing country within their period of validity.

Article 4º-In-certificates of origin will be identified the present requirements through the inclusion, in the corresponding field, of the following definition: "XXXV Additional Protocol-Annex I".

Article 5º-The present Protocol shall enter into force thirty days after the General Secretariat communicates to the Signatory Countries the receipt of the last notification of incorporation of the instrument to the respective internal legal ordinances.

The General Secretariat of ALADI shall be a depositary of this Protocol, of which it will send copies duly Authenticated to the Governments Signatories.

IN FÉ THAN, THE RESPECTIVE PLENIPOTENTIARIES SIGN the present Protocol in the city of Montevideo, at the twenty-nine days of the month of August two thousand and one, in an original in the languages Portuguese and Spanish, being both texts being equally valid.

By the Government of the Argentine Republic

Carlos Onis Vigil

By the Government of the Republic of Paraguay

José María Casal

By the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil

José Artur Denot Medeiros

By the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay

Elbio Rosselli Frieri