DECREE NO. 6,994, OF October 29, 2009.

Disposes on the execution of the Fifty Fourth Protocol Additional to the Economic Supplementation Agreement no 35 (54PA-ACE35), signed between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR, and the Government of the Republic of Chile, on July 7, 2009.

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

Whereas the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, which created the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI), firmed by Brazil on August 12, 1980 and promulgated by Decree No. 87,054 of March 23, 1982, provides for the modality of Economic Supplementation Agreement;

Considering that the Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR, and the Republic of Chile, based on the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed on June 25, 1996 in San Luis, Argentina, the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 35, promulgated by the Decree no 2,075, of November 19, 1996; and

Whereas the Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR, and the Republic of Chile, on the basis of the 1980 Treaty of Montevideo, signed, in 7 of July 2009, in Montevideo, the Fifty Fourth Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 35, between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of the Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR, and the Government of the Republic of Chile,

DECRETA:

Art. 1st The Fifty Fourth Protocol Additional to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 35, among the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, States Parties to MERCOSUR, and the Government of the Republic of Chile, of July 7, 2009, apensed by copy to this 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, October 29, 2009; 188th of Independence and 121st of the Republic.

JOSÉ ALENCAR GOMES DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

ECONOMIC SUPPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT N ° 35 CELEBRATED

AMONG THE GOVERNMENTS OF THE STATES PARTIES OF MERCOSUR

AND THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF CHILE

Qüinqutwenty-Fourth Additional Protocol

The Plenipotentiaries of the Argentine Republic, of the Republic Federative of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, in their condition of States Parties of the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR), by one party, and of the Republic of Chile, by another, accredited by their respective Governments second powers that were bestowed in good and due form, deposited opportunely at the General Secretariat of the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI).

HAVING IN VIEW the MSC-CH Resolution No. 1/2009, emanating from the XX Extraordinary Meeting of the Administrative Commission of ACE No. 35 MERCOSUL-Chile.

DECK IN:

Article will apply the scheme of preferences set out in the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 35 a all goods drawn up or coming from Zones Francas of any nature, located in the territory of the Republic of Chile, with the exception of the goods classified in Chapters 50 a to 63, inclusive, of Naladi-SH.

Article 2nd-The Republic of Chile will apply the scheme of preferences set out in the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 35 a all goods drawn up or coming from Zones Francas of any nature, situated in the territory of the Federative Republic of Brazil, with the exception of the goods classified in Chapters 50 a to 63, inclusive, of Naladi-SH.

Article 3rd-To enjoy the benefit provided for in Articles 1º and 2º, the goods are to comply with the Origin Regime set out in Annex 13 to the Agreement. In the respective certificate of origin is to appear in Table 14,?Remarks?, the sentence:? elaborate merchandise or from free zone?.

Article 4th-The present Protocol shall enter into force thirty days after the date on which the Federative Republic of Brazil and the Republic of Chile inform the General Secretariat of the ALADI their incorporation to their internal law, in the terms of their respective legislations. The General Secretariat of the ALADI will inform the respective Signatary Parties the date of their entry into force.

The General Secretariat of ALADI will be depositary of this Protocol, of which it will send duly authenticated copies to the Signatary Parties.

IN FÉ FROM WHAT, THE RESPECTIVE Plenipotentiaries sign the present Protocol in the city of Montevideo, at the seven days of the month of July two thousand and nine, in an original in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, being both texts being equally valid. (Fdo.:) 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: Emilio Giménez; By the Government of the Eastern Republic of Uruguay: Gonzalo Rodríguez Gigena; By the Government of the Republic of Chile: Eduardo Araya Alemparte.