DECREE NO. 5,898, OF September 20, 2006.

Disposes on the execution of the Fifty Second Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement no 18, among the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic Argentina, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, of March 28, 2006.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignment that gives it the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution, and

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

Whereas the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, in Montevideo on November 29, 1991, the Agreement of Economic Complementation in the 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, incorporated into the Brazilian domestic law by the Decree no 550, of May 27 of 1992;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, in Montevideo, on March 28, 2006, the Fifty Second Additional Protocol to the Agreement of Economic Complementation in the 18, between the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Argentine Republic, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay;

DECRETA:

Art. 1st The Fifty Second Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement no 18, among the Governments of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic Argentina, from the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, apensed by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as if it contains.

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

Brasilia, September 20- 2006; 185th of the Independence and 118th of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

This text does not replaces the published in the D.O.U. of 9/21/2006.

ECONOMIC SUPPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT NO. 18 CELEBRATED BETWEEN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY

Qütentieth Second Protocol Additional

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

TAKING INTO ACCOUNT the Eighteenth Protocol Additional to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18 and the GMC Resolution No. 43/03,

DECK IN:

Article 1º-Incorporate to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18 a Guideline No. 01/05 of the Trade Commission of MERCOSUR concerning the?Source Regime MERCOSUR?, which is listed as Annex and integrates the present Protocol.

Article 2º-This Protocol will enter into force 30 days after the notification of the General Secretariat of the ALADI to the signatory countries that it has received the communication from the MERCOSUR Secretariat, informing the incorporation of the MERCOSUR standard and its corresponding Additional Protocol to the legal ordinances of the four States-Part of MERCOSUR.

The General Secretariat of the ALADI should make such notification, if possible, on the same day as you receive the communication from the MERCOSUR Registry.

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

IN FÉ FROM WHAT, THE RESPECTIVE PLENIPOTENTIARIES SIGN THIS Protocol in the city of Montevideo, at the twenty-eight days of the month of March of the year two thousand and six, in an original in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, being both texts being equally valid. (a.:) By the Government of the Argentine Republic: Juan Carlos Olima; By the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil: Bernardo Pericás Neto; By the Government of the Republic of Paraguay: Juan Carlos Ramírez Montalbetti; By the Government of the Oriental Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Rodríguez Gigena.

MERCOSUR-CCM /DIR. No. 01/05

REGIME OF ORIGIN MERCOSUR

HAVING IN VISTA: The Treaty of Assumption, the Golden Protocol Black, Decisions No. 29/03, 41/03 and 1/04 of the Common Market Council and Resolution No. 37/04 of the Common Market Group.

CONSIDERING:

Which, with the purpose of facilitating the task of commercial operators, results necessary identify in the MERCOSUR certificate of origin, the transitional percentages of regional aggregate value, according to the one set out in Decision No. 29/03 of the Common Market Council and the Common Market Group Resolution No. 37/04.

THE MERCOSUR TRADE COMMISSION

APPROVES THE FOLLOWING GUIDELINE:

Art. 1-The treatment set out in Article 1º of the Dec. CMC No. 29/03, and in Article 1º of the Res. GMC No. 37/04, will be identified in the MERCOSUR Certificate Of Origin, according to the established in Dec. CMC N ° 1/04.

In addition, should you consign in Camp 14?Observations? of the Certificate of Origin, the following:

In the case of CMC Decision N th 29/03:

? regional aggregate value as set out in the XLVII Additional Protocol to ACE No. 18-ARTICLE 1º?.

In the case of Resolution GMC N ° 37/04:

? regional aggregate value as set out in the LI Protocol Additional to ACE No. 18-ARTICLE 1º?.

Art. 2-Request to States Parties that instruct their respective Representations to the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), to which to protocolize the present Guideline in the framework of the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, pursuant to the Resolution GMC No. 43/03.

LXXIV CCM-Montevideo, 01 /IV/05