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22 February  2022 
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Committee on Trade and Development  Original:  Spanish  
 
  
NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES AFFECTING THE IMPLEMENTATION  
OF A REGIONAL TRADE AGREEMENT  
Supplement  
AAP.CE 18.197 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
 
1. Member(s) notifying: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay  
2. Date of notification: 20 December 2021  
3. Notification pursuant to:  
[ X ] Paragraph 14 of the Transparency Mechanism for Regional Trade 
Agreements (WT/L/671)  
4. Changes affect : 
[ X ] goods  
[    ] services  
[    ] both  
5. Original RTA being modified: TM80  
6. WTO document reference of original notification of  RTA:  
L/5342 - WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1 - WT/COMTD/RTA15/N/1/Add.18  
7. Parties to the Agreement: Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay  
8. Date of adoption: 21 July 2020  
9. Date(s) of entry into force/provisional application: 1 July 2020  
10. Brief description of changes:  
AAP.CE 18.197 (Articles 7 and 8 of the TM80)  
Additional Protocol No. 197 to Partial Scope Economic Complementarity Agreement No. 18 
(AAP.CE  18.197) incorporates, into the Agreement, MERCOSUR Trade Commission 
Directive No. 20/20 updating the schedules attached to CMC Decision No. 37/05. These 
schedules were updated with the MERCOSUR Common Nomenclature tariff codes (1  
January  2019 version) and  refer to the elimination of the double charging of the Common 
External Tariff (CET) and to the MERCOSUR Common Tariff Policy (PAC).  
11. Text and related schedules, annexes and protocols are:  
[    ] submitted to the WTO Secretariat (electronic format)  
[ X ] available from the following official Internet link(s):  
https://www2.aladi.org/nsfaladi/textacdos.nsf /4d5c18e55622e1040325749000756112/f
e7569f3cf0fb07a0325874400499ef0?OpenDocument  
 