DECREE NO. 3,911, OF September 10, 2001

Disposes on the execution of the Thirtieth Second Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, between the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, of May 17, 2001.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignment that confers it on 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 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 way of the Decree No. 550, of 27 from May 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 Brazilian legal planning by means of Decree No 3,757 of February 21, 2001, which adapts certain aspects of the ACE-18 origin regime;

Whereas, on April 24, 2001, the Mercosur Trade Commission adopted, in Asuncion, the Guideline 4/01, extending until June 30, 2001 the time limit provided for in Article 9º of the cited Twenty-Fourth Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, concerning the acceptance of models of certificates of origin;

Whereas the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay struck on May 17, 2001, in Montevideo, the Trigth Second Protocol Additional to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, of compliance with the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, which aims to implement the 4/01 Guideline of the Mercosur Trade Commission;

DECRETA:

Art. 1º It gets promulgated, for all the effects, the Thirty-second Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, between the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, of May 17, 2001, apensed by copy to the present Decree.

Art. 2º This Decree takes effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, September 10, 2001; 180º of the Independence and 113º of the Republic.

FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO

Celso Lafer

ECONOMIC SUPPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT NO. 18,

CELEBRATED BETWEEN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY, AND URUGUAY

Thirtieth Second Additional Protocol

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

CONSIDERING that the MERCOSUR Trade Commission, through its Guideline 04/01 has deemed it appropriate to appropriate the deadline for the requirement of the new Certificate of Origin of MERCOSUR approved by Decision 3/00 of the Common Market Council, appearing in the Twenty-Fourth Additional Protocol to the ACE 18,

DECK IN:

Article 1º.-Extend until June 30, 2001 the deadline provided for in Article 9º of the Twenty-Fourth Additional Protocol to the ACE 18 for the mandatory use of the MERCOSUR Certificate Of Origin Certificate model, which results from the said Additional Protocol.

Until that date will be indistinctly accepted the Certificate of Origin issued in the previous form template or in the new model, provided that they have been issued from the date of issuance of the commercial invoice corresponding or on the 60 consecutive days.

Artígo 2º.-The present Protocol shall enter into force on the date of its signature.

The General Secretariat of ALADI shall be the depositary of this Protocol, of which will send duly certified copies to the signatory Governments.

IN FÉ THAN, THE RESPECTIVE PLENIPOTENTIARIES SIGN the present Protocol in the city of Montevideo, at the seventeen days of the month of May two thousand and one, in a original in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, 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 from Uruguay:

Elbio Rosselli Frieri