Article 14-04. Entry Into Force
This Agreement shall enter into force on June 7, two thousand and ten.
Article 14-06. Accession
1. Any country or group of countries may accede to this Agreement subject to such terms and conditions as may be agreed between that country or group of countries and the Commission, and once its accession has been approved in accordance with the applicable legal procedures of each country.
2. This Agreement shall not enter into force between a Party and any acceding country or group of countries if at the time of accession any of them does not give its consent.
3. Accession shall enter into force upon the exchange of communications certifying that the legal formalities have been completed.
Article 14-07. Denunciation
1. Any Party may denounce this Agreement. The denunciation shall take effect 180 days after communicating it to the other Party, without prejudice to the possibility that the Parties may agree on a different period of time.
2. In the case of the accession of a country or group of countries in accordance with the provisions of Article 14-06, notwithstanding that a Party has denounced the Agreement, the Agreement shall remain in force for the other Parties.
Article 14-08. Evaluation of the Agreement
The Parties shall periodically evaluate the development of this Agreement in order to seek its improvement and consolidate the integration process in the region, promoting an active participation of the productive sectors.
Article 14-09. Repeals and Transitory Provisions
1. With respect to Chapter VI (Customs Procedures), importers may request the tariff preference provided for in ACE 31, for a period of 30 days, counted as of the entry into force of this Agreement. For these purposes, the certificates of origin issued pursuant to the Free Trade Agreement between the United Mexican States and the Republic of Bolivia must have been completed prior to the entry into force of this Agreement, be valid and be within the validity period pursuant to the terms established by the aforementioned Agreement and be valid for the aforementioned term.
2. The Parties undertake to update the annexes to articles 3-02, 3-03, 3-08 and 4-04 to the version of the Harmonized System relating to the Fourth Amendment within a period of no more than 6 months from the entry into force of this Agreement, and the annexes to articles 5-03 and 5-15 within a period of no more than 2 years from the entry into force of this Agreement.
3. The Parties shall review, no later than 6 months after the entry into force of this Agreement, the possibility of including other distinctive products in the Annex to Article 3-12. The General Secretariat of ALADI shall be the depository of this Protocol, of which it shall send duly authenticated copies to the Governments of the signatory countries.
Conclusion
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the respective Plenipotentiaries have signed this Protocol in the city of Montevideo, on the seventeenth day of May of the year two thousand and ten, in an original in the Spanish language.
For the United Mexican States:
For the Plurinational State of Bolivia: