RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Uruguay appealed this Friday (5) to the "need for modernity and sincerity" in the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) after learning of Brazil's unilateral decision, announced hours earlier, to lower its import tariffs and, therefore, to adopt an alteration that is still being discussed within the bloc.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Economic and Finance of Uruguay issued a joint communiqué. They point out that "Brazil's decision is understood within the current framework of MERCOSUR as an imperfect Free Trade Zone."
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