DECREE NO. 7,251, OF August 2, 2010.

Dislays on the execution of the Septuagth First Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18 (71PA-ACE18), signed between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of Brazil, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, on May 19, 2010.

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), 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, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed on November 29, 1991 in Montevideo, the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, promulgated by Decree No. 550 of May 27, 1992;

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, on the basis of the Treaty of Montevideo of 1980, signed, on May 19, 2010, in Montevideo, the Septutwenty-first Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, among the Governments of the Argentine Republic, the Federative Republic of Brazil, the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; and

Whereas the Septutwenty-first Additional Protocol incorporates to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18 a Decision CMC No 57/08, which sets additional deadlines to those set out in the CMC Decision No. 14/07 for the States Parties to complete the tasks concerning the harmonisation of the special import regimes in Mercosur and eliminate the unilaterally adopted national schemes,

DECRETA:

Art. 1º The Septutwenty-First Additional Protocol to the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, between the Governments of the Argentine Republic, of the Federative Republic of the Brazil, of the Republic of Paraguay and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay, firmed in Montevideo on May 19, 2010, apensed by copy to the present Decree, will be executed and fulfilled as entirely as it contains.

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

Brasilia, August 2, 2010; 189º of Independence and 122º of the Republic.

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA

Celso Luiz Nunes Amorim

ALADI / AAP.CE/ 18.71

May 20, 2010

ECONOMIC COMPLEMENTATION AGREEMENT N ° 18 CONCLUDED BETWEEN ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, PARAGUAY AND URUGUAY

Septuagineteenth Additional Protocol

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).

HAVING IN VISTA the Eighteenth Additional Protocol to ACE-18 and Resolution GMC No. 43/03.

CONVVE IN:

Article 1-Incorporate to the Economic Supplementation Agreement N ° 18 a Decision N ° 57/08 of the Common Market Council concerning?Special Import Regimes?, 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 of which it 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 Parties to MERCOSUR.

The General Secretariat of ALADI should make such a notification, as far as possible, on the same day it receives the communication from the Secretariat of MERCOSUR.

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

IN FÉ DO WHY, the respective Plenipotentiaries sign the gift Protocol in the city of Montevideo, to the nineteen days of the month of May two thousand and ten, in an original in the Portuguese and Spanish languages, being both texts being equally valid. (a.:) By the Government of the Argentine Republic: María Cristina Boldorini; 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.

ANNEX

MERCOSUL/CMC/DEC. No. 57/08

SPECIAL IMPORT REGIMES

HAVING IN VISTA: The Treaty of Asuncion, the Black Gold Protocol, and the Decisions No. 31/00, 69/00, 16/01, 36/03, 33/05, 02/06 and 14/07 of the Council of the Common Market;

CONSIDERING:

That the CMC Decision No. 69/00 provides that States Parties will be able to establish Common Special Import Regimes for the MERCOSUR, determining, on the other hand, the elimination of the special import customs regimes unilaterally adopted by the States Parties;

That Decision CMC N ° 02/06 established the sectors that are expected to be the subject of the elaboration of Common Special regimes of Import;

That the CMC Decision n ° 40/08 approved the Common Special Import Regime for the sector of science and technology; and

That it is necessary to set additional deadlines to those set out in CMC Decision N ° 14/07 for States Parties to complete the tasks aimed at harmonizing special import regimes in MERCOSUR and eliminate the unilaterally adopted national regimes,

THE COUNCIL OF THE COMMON MARKET

DECIDE:

Art. 1 °-Extend the deadline set out in Article 1 of the CMC Decision No. 14/07, for the CCM to draw up Common Special Import Regimes for the aeronautical sectors of education, health, naval, integral goods from investment and trade projects land cross-border, which are listed in the Annex to CMC Decision No. 02/06, as well as those that the CCM determines by virtue of Article 3 of the CMC Decision N ° 02/06. This work is expected to be completed by CCM in time to be considered by the GMC at its last meeting of the second half of 2010.

Art. 2 °-Extend until December 31, 2010 the deadline for the GMC to define the treatment to be given to the special import customs arrangements adopted unilaterally by the States Parties involving the full or partial exemption of the duties customs (Common External Tariff) that record the definitive import of goods that are not aimed at the improvement and further export of the resulting goods to third countries, as well as the benefits granted to the amparo of these regimes.

The present article does not applies to national schemes that will be able to remain beholdant for reasons such as limited economic impact or non-commercial purpose (CMC Decision N ° 03/06 and supplementary standards), nor to those sectors subject to the drafting of common regimes, of agreement with the provisions of Article 1 of this Decision.

Art. 3 °-Extend until 12/31/2010 the deadlines for the submission of the lists set out in Articles 1 and 3 of the CMC Decision No. 32/03 and Article 4 of the CMC Decision No. 69/00.

Art. 4 °-Request the States Parties to instruct their respective Representations to the Latin American Integration Association (ALADI) to protocolize this Decision under the Economic Supplementation Agreement No. 18, pursuant to the terms established in GMC Resolution No. 43/03.

Art. 5 °-This Decision is to be incorporated into the legal planning of the States Parties before 01 /VII/09.

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