Article 1: This Law has for object to promote the establishment and to regulate the operations of companies industrial assembly plants that are devoted total or partially to carry out industrial processes or of services incorporating manpower and other national resources dedicated to the transformation, elaboration, repair or assembling of merchandises of foreign origin cared temporarily to this effect for its later reexport, in execution of a contract undersigned with a company domiciled abroad.

Article 2: For the effects of the present Law will understand each other for:

a. Assembly plant:established Company especially to already take to end Programs of Assembling of Export or that established and guided to the national market that has lazy capacity in their facilities and that it is approved a Program of Assembling.

b. Program of Assembling: The one that contains in detail the description and characteristic of the industrial process or of service, chronogram of imports, of production, of exports, of generation of employments, percentage of added value, percentage of reductions and waste, period of time that will embrace the program and other data that will be able to settle down in the corresponding regulation.

c. Contract of Assembling of Export: The agreement reached among the Company Assembly plant and a Company domiciled in the exterior, for which an industrial process is hired or of service in support to the same one dedicated to the transformation, elaboration, repair or assembling of foreign merchandises to be cared temporarily for its later reexport, being able to provide the basic matters, inputs, machineries, teams, tools, technology, direction and technical attendance, of agreement with the modality that the parts freely settle down.

d. Import-Assembling: entrance to the national territory, with liberation of the tributes to the franquinarias import, teams, tools and other production goods, as well as of basic matters, inputs, parts and for the realization of Programs of Assembling and their later export or reexport.

e. Export-Assembling: exit of the national territory of the goods or goods elaborated by the industries assembly plants according to the authorized program and with the use of the basic matters , inputs, parts and pieces cared temporarily whose value has been increased with the contribution of the work, basic matters and other national natural resources.

f. Reexport-Assembling: exit of the national territory of those production goods, such as machineries, tools; teams and others that have not suffered transformation neither increase of their value that have been cared temporarily to fulfill the Programs of Assembling of Export.

g. Sub-Assembling: when it is a complement of the productive process of the activity object of the program it stops later on to reinstate it to the assembly plant that hired the service.

h. Assembling for lazy capacity: that company, physical or artificial person that established and guided to the production for the national market it is approved him, in the terms of this Law, a Program of Assembling.

i. Assembly plants with Program Harbour or Shelter: companies to those that are approved Programs Factory workers that are good to carry out export projects on the part of foreign companies that facilitate the technology and the productive material, without operating the same ones directly.

j. C.U.T.: Center only of Steps incorporated to the National Council of the Industry Assembly plant of Export, in which the different institutions involved in the handling of the assembly plants will be represented: Ministry of Exchequer, Ministry of Industry and Trade, General Direction of Customses, National Administration of Navigation and Ports, Central Bank of the Paraguay, Direction of Statistic and Census, Institute of Social Forecast and others that are necessary to the effects of an agile and quick unified office of the applications presented by these companies.

Article 3: they will Be been able to welcome to the benefits granted by this Law, national or foreign physical or juridical people, domiciled in the country they are enabled to carry out trade acts.

Article 4: The approval of the Program Assembling of Export and other permits corresponding to the system will be granted by bi-ministerial Resolution to be subscribed jointly by the Ministers of Industry and Trade and of Exchequer, channeled through the National Council of the Industries Assembly plants of Export (CNIME). To the effects of this Law, the sentence approved by the CNIME will take implicit the resolution bi-ministerial Exchequer and Industry and Trade.

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