WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add. 58 
13 March  2020 
(20-2026) Page: 1/2 
Committee on Trade and Development  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AFFECTING THE IMPLEMENTATION  
OF A REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT  
Addendum  
AAP.CE 59 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
 
 
1.  
Member(s) notifying: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and 
Venezuela.  
 
 
2.  
Date of notification: 13 September 2006  
 
 
3. 
  
Notification pursuant to:  
 
[ ] Article XXIV:7(a) of GATT 1994  
[ ] Article V:7(a) of GATS  
[ X ] Paragraph 4(a) of the Enabling Clause  
 
 
4.  
Parties to the Agreement:  Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Paraguay, Uruguay and 
Venezuela  
 
 
5.  
Date of signature: 18 October 2004  
 
 
6.  
Date(s) of entry into force:  
Between Argentina and Colombia: 1 February 2005  
Between Argentina and Ecuador: 1 April 2005  
Between Argentina and Venezuela: 5 January 2005  
Between Brazil and Colombia: 1 February 2005  
Between Brazil and Ecuador: 1 April 2005  
Between Brazil and Venezuela: 1 February 2005  
Between Paraguay and Colombia: 19 April 2005  
Between Paraguay and Ecuador: 19 April 2005  
Between Paraguay and V enezuela: 19 April 2005  
Between Uruguay and Colombia: 1 February 2005  
Between Uruguay and Ecuador: 1 April 2005  
Between Uruguay and Venezuela: 5 January 2005  
 
 
7.  
Brief description of the Agreement:  
 
AAP.CE 59 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
 
Partial Sco pe Economic Complementarity Agreement No. 59 (AAP.CE 59) has among its 
objectives  to set in place a legal and institutional framework of cooperation and economic 
and physical integration conducive to the creation of an expanded economic area. To this 
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  programme, to be applied to products originating in and coming from their respective 
territories, which will consist of progressive and automatic reductions applicable to the levies 
in force for imports from third countries.  
 
In addition, AAP.CE  59 includes specific provisions on the origin regime (Annex IV); the 
system of safeguard clauses (Annex V); the system for interim dispute settlement 
(Annex  VI); the system of rules, technical regulations and the conformity assessment 
(Annex VII); the sys tem of sanitary and phytosanitary measures (Annex VIII); and the 
system of special measures (Annex IX).  
 
This Agreement incorporates the preferential tariff preferences negotiated 
previously between the signatory parties in the partial scope agreements 
concluded under LAIA, in the manner reflected in the trade liberalization 
programme.  
 
In addition, this Agreement incorporates the tariff preferences and other access 
conditions previously negotiated in the regional scope agreements concluded 
under LAIA, in t he manner reflected in the trade liberalization programme. 
However, the tariff preferences and other conditions of access that are being 
applied by the signatory parties on the date of signature of this Agreement, under 
the regional agreement relating to t he regional tariff preferences and the regional 
agreements on the opening of markets in favour of economically less developed 
countries, to the extent that the said preferences and other conditions of access 
are more favourable than those established in th is Agreement.  
 
However, the provisions of the partial scope agreements and the regional scope 
agreements shall remain in force when they relate to matters not included in this 
Agreement.  
 
 
8.  
Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:  
 
[ ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)   
[ X ] available from the following official Internet link(s):  
 
http://www.aladi.org/nsfaladi/textacdos.nsf/800d239280151ad283257d8000551d1f/a87b
9915768aab9b032578af004bcd49?OpenDocum ent