Trade-agreement suspension or abrogation: version history
Entry-text changes are distinguished from website design and metadata changes. The publication change log explains editorial reasons; the dated entry review record explains scope.
Publication change log · Current review record
- Edition 2.0.38, 2026-11-10. First archived text.
- Edition 2.0.39, 2026-11-10. Entry text revised.
Text changes from 2.0.38 to 2.0.39
Reason for this change. Add a bounded regional comparison using articles 21 and 22 of the original Treaty of Asunción, distinguishing withdrawal design from current law and coercive use. Preserve the substantive review date.
Before: edition 2.0.38
No passage in this edition.
After: edition 2.0.39
The original 1991 Treaty of Asunción illustrates a regional withdrawal design. Articles 21 and 22 provide for formal denunciation and preserve the withdrawing state's rights and obligations under the trade-liberalisation programme for two years after formal denunciation; other continuing aspects are subject to agreement among the states concerned (articles 21 and 22). This describes the founding text, not the complete current MERCOSUR legal framework, an actual withdrawal or evidence of a coercive purpose.
Before: edition 2.0.38
- Public Law 117-110, 8 April 2022, accessed 30 July 2026.
- GATT Article XXI, accessed 30 July 2026.
- WTO panel report in DS512, 5 April 2019.
- Taiwan Ministry of Finance ECFA notice, 2026, accessed 30 July 2026.
After: edition 2.0.39
- Public Law 117-110, 8 April 2022, accessed 30 July 2026.
- GATT Article XXI, accessed 30 July 2026.
- WTO panel report in DS512, 5 April 2019.
- Taiwan Ministry of Finance ECFA notice, 2026, accessed 30 July 2026.
- Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay, Treaty of Asunción, 26 March 1991, articles 21 and 22, page 4. Spanish text retained by Paraguay's Ministry of Foreign Affairs with Law 9/91; English paraphrase in this entry.