Minutes of the III CAN-Argentine Negotiation Meeting
(Buenos Aires, February 15-18, 2000)

The Argentine and Andean Community Delegations met in the city of Buenos Aires from February 15 to 18, 2000 to continue negotiating a Partial Scope Economic Complementarity Agreement on Fixed Tariff Preferences between the two parties.

The Argentine Delegation was headed by the National Director for American Economic Integration of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, International Trade and Worship, Ambassador Rodolfo Rodríguez, while the Andean Community Delegation was coordinated by the National Director for Integration and International Trade Negotions of the Peruvian Ministry of Industry, Tourism, Integration and International Trade Negotiations, Eduardo Brandes Salazar.

The List of Participants is attached as Annex I.

During the course of the meeting, the two Delegations continued the exercise started during the round of negotiations held in Lima last January. They accordingly made changes in their positions with regard to products still to be negotiated, in order to achieve a rapprochement. Further work was done on analyzing the text of the Agreement and a consolidated list was prepared for further evaluation by the two parties. This is set out as Annex II.

The two delegations reaffirmed their intention to conclude their negotiations before this coming March 31 and to that end scheduled new negotiation meetings for Lima on March 6 to 10 and Buenos Aires on March 27 to 31, 2000.

Buenos Aires, February 18, 2000