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17 March  2020 
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Committee on Trade and Development  Original: Spanish  
 
NOTIFICATION OF CHAN GES AFFECTING THE IM PLEMENTATION  
OF A REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT  
Addendum  
AAP.AG 2 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80 ) 
 
 
1.  
Member(s) notifying: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and 
Uruguay  
 
2.  
Date of notification: 17 February 1992  
 
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, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru and 
Uruguay  
 
5.  
Date of signature: : 22 November 1991  
 
6.  
Date(s) of entry into force:  18 June 1993  
 
7.  
Brief description of the Agreement:  
 
AAP.AG 2 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
 
Agricultural Partial Scope Agreement No. 2 (AAP.AG 2) has as its objective to promote the 
liberalization of trade in seeds and to establish conditions for developing harmonized national 
mechanisms for seeds. The signatory countries establish that seeds will be traded in their 
territories without any other restriction than those required to safeguard their characteristics 
and to ensure compliance with verification practices and trademarks, among other matters.  
 
To this end, the imports of seeds on the common list of species, produced by propagation in 
the signatory countries, will be exempt from import duties, and also from customs duties and 
any other surcharges having equivalent effect on imports, whether these are of a fiscal, 
monetary, exchange -rate or other nature.  
 
The import and  export of seeds on the common list of species shall be excluded from any 
non-tariff restrictions, whether administrative, quantitative or import tax -related.  
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  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/08fe51415a4f13a483257d8000577e37/aaf71a
0206108811032578e6005649c1?OpenDocument  
 