Exhibit 4.3

U.S.$500,000,000

BUNGE LIMITED FINANCE CORP.

4.375% Senior Notes Due 2008

Fully and Unconditionally Guaranteed by

BUNGE LIMITED

Exchange And Registration Rights Agreement

        December 15, 2003

Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
  As Representatives of the
  Initial Purchasers as set forth in
  Schedule I to the Purchase Agreement (defined below)

c/o Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
388 Greenwich Street
New York, New York 10013

J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.
270 Park Avenue
New York, New York 10017

Ladies and Gentlemen:

        Bunge Limited Finance Corp., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), proposes to issue and sell to Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. (collectively, the "Initial Purchasers"), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in a purchase agreement dated December 10, 2003 (the "Purchase Agreement"), U.S.$500,000,000 aggregate principal amount of its 4.375% Senior Notes Due 2008 (the "Notes") to be fully and unconditionally guaranteed by Bunge Limited, a Bermuda company (the "Guarantor"). The Notes will be issued pursuant to an Indenture, dated as of December 15, 2003 (the "Indenture") among the Company, the Guarantor and SunTrust Bank, as trustee (the "Trustee"). Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Purchase Agreement.

        As an inducement to the Initial Purchasers to enter into the Purchase Agreement and in satisfaction of a condition to the obligations of the Initial Purchasers thereunder, the Company and the Guarantor agree with the Initial Purchasers, for the benefit of the holders (including the Initial Purchasers) of the Notes and the Exchange Notes (as defined herein) (collectively, the "Holders"), as follows:


        As soon as practicable after the close of the Registered Exchange Offer, the Company and the Guarantor shall:

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        The Company and the Guarantor shall use their reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration Statement effective and to amend and supplement the prospectus contained therein in order to permit such prospectus to be used by all persons subject to the prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act for such period of time as such persons must comply with such requirements in order to resell the Exchange Notes; provided that (i) in the case where such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto are required by law or applicable interpretations thereof by the staff of the Commission to be delivered by an Exchanging Dealer, such period shall be the lesser of 180 days and the date on which all Exchanging Dealers have sold all Exchange Notes held by them and (ii) the Company shall make such prospectus and any amendment or supplement thereto available to any broker-dealer for use in connection with any resale of any Exchange Notes for a period of not less than 180 days after the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer.

        Interest on each Exchange Note issued pursuant to the Registered Exchange Offer will accrue from the last interest payment date on which interest was paid on the Notes surrendered in exchange therefor or, if no interest has been paid on the Notes, from the Issue Date. The Registered Exchange Offer shall not be subject to any conditions, other than (i) that the Registered Exchange Offer, or the making of any exchange by a Holder, does not violate applicable law or any applicable interpretation of the staff of the Commission, (ii) that no action or proceeding shall have been instituted or threatened in any court or before any governmental agency with respect to the Registered Exchange Offer which, in the Company's or the Guarantor's reasonable judgment, would materially impair the ability of the Company and the Guarantor to proceed with the Registered Exchange Offer, (iii) that no law, rule or regulation or applicable interpretations of the staff of the Commission has been issued or promulgated which, in the reasonable judgment of the Company or the Guarantor, does not permit the Company and the Guarantor to effect the Registered Exchange Offer and (iv) that the Holders tender the Notes to the Company in accordance with the Registered Exchange Offer.

        Each Holder participating in the Registered Exchange Offer shall be required to represent to the Company that at the time of the consummation of the Registered Exchange Offer (i) any Exchange Notes received by such Holder will be acquired in the ordinary course of business, (ii) such Holder has no arrangements or understandings with any person to participate in the distribution of the Notes or the Exchange Notes within the meaning of the Securities Act, (iii) such Holder is not acting on behalf of any Person who could not truthfully make the foregoing representation, (iv) such Holder is not an affiliate of the Company or the Guarantor or, if it is such an affiliate, such Holder will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable, and (v) such Holder shall make such other representations as may be reasonably necessary under applicable Commission rules or regulations or interpretations of the staff of the Commission to render the use of Form F-4 or another appropriate form under the Securities Act available or for the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to be declared effective. To the extent permitted by law, the Company shall inform the Initial Purchasers of the names and addresses of the Holders to whom the Registered Exchange Offer is made, and the Initial Purchasers shall have the right to contact such Holders and otherwise facilitate the tender of Notes in the Registered Exchange Offer.

        Notwithstanding any other provisions hereof, the Company and the Guarantor will ensure that (i) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto and any prospectus forming part thereof and any supplement thereto complies in all material respects with the Securities Act and the rules and regulations thereunder, (ii) any Exchange Offer Registration Statement and any amendment thereto does not, when it becomes effective, contain an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading and (iii) any prospectus forming part of any Exchange Offer Registration Statement, and any supplement to such prospectus, does not include an untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary in order to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

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        Please confirm that the foregoing correctly sets forth the agreement among the Company, the Guarantor and the Initial Purchasers.

    Very truly yours,

 

 

BUNGE LIMITED FINANCE CORP.

 

 

By

/s/  
MORRIS KALEF      
     
Name:  Morris Kalef
Title:    President

 

 

BUNGE LIMITED

 

 

By

/s/  
WILLIAM M. WELLS      
     
Name:  William M. Wells
Title:    Chief Financial Officer

 

 

By

/s/  
MORRIS KALEF      
     
Name:  Morris Kalef
Title:    Treasurer

Accepted and Agreed:


CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

 

 
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.
    As Representatives of the Initial Purchasers
    as listed on Schedule 1 to the Purchase Agreement
   

CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.

 

 

By

/s/  
JAIME ARRASTIA      
Authorized Signatory
Vice President

 

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.

 

 

By

/s/  
MARIA SRAMEK      
Authorized Signatory
Vice President

 

 

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