Key Benefits:
DECREE NO. 4,973, OF January 30, 2004.
Disposes on the execution of the Quadragth 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 June 25, 2003.
THE VICE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the exercise of the post of President of the Republic, using the assignment that gives him the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution,
Whereas 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 Congress National, by means of 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, of the Republic Argentina, 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 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, incorporated into Brazilian domestic law by the Decree No. 550 of May 27, 1992;
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 June 25, 2003, the Quadragth Fifth Additional Protocol to the Agreement on Economic Supplementation No. 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. 1º The Quadragth 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, apensed by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.
Art. 2º This Decree comes into effect on the date of its publication.
Brasília, January 30, 2004; 183º of Independence and 116º of the Republic.
JOSÉ ALENCAR GOMES DA SILVA
Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim
The Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of the Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, accredited by their respective Governments second powers that have been bestowed in good and due form, deposited timely in the General Secretariat of the Latin American Association of Integration (ALADI),
HAVING SEEN Decision No 01/03 of the Common Market Council of MERCOSUR,
DECK IN:
Article 1º-As of 1º May 2003, and for the exclusive effect of the bilateral trade between Argentina and Uruguay, will govern the exemption of the Common External Tariff or national import tariffs when they are applicable, which sets out in Articles 2 and 3.
Article 2º-The Republic of Argentina outorts the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, an annual quota of 2000 tonnes of the product NCM 2106.90.10 ("syrup ") "Preparations of the type of those used for making drinks", originating in and coming from the Colonia Franca Zone.
Article 3º-The Eastern Republic of Uruguay outwits to the Republic of Argentina an annual quota of U$S 20,000,000 (twenty million dollars) FOB to the entirety of the exports of the originating goods and coming from the Special Customs Area of Tierra del Fuego.
Article 4º-The administrations of Uruguay and Argentina will be able to dictate internal arrangements to the effects of the distribution of the quotas set out in Articles 2 and 3 respectively.
Article 5º-To enjoy the benefit of the tariff relief provided for in Article 1º, the products shall comply with the Regime of Origin of MERCOSUR. They should also present clearly visible seal label that identifies them as coming from the Special Customs Area of Tierra del Fuego or the Colonia Franca Zone.
Article 6º-The quotas provided for in the articles 2 and 3 shall apply from 1º January to December 31 each year and shall be reviewed annually, by the end of the first quarter of each year, by the Contracting States Parties
During the year 2003, the quotas provided for in Articles 2 and 3 will be able to be used from 1º May 2003 to December 31, 2003.
Article 7º-The benefits determined in this Agreement will not be able to be extended to the remaining Zones Francas, Zones Export Processing Zones Commercial Francas or Special Customs Areas, distinct from the two expressly mentioned.
Article 8º-The present Protocol beams from 1º May 2003.
The General Secretariat of the ALADI will be depositary of this Protocol, of which it 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 twenty five days of the month of June two thousand and three, 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: José María Casal; By the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay: Julio Giambruno.
