ANNOUNCEMENT 20 May 2015

In May 2015, the government of Brazil announced a change in import tariff quotas.

NUMBER OF INTERVENTIONS

1

  • 0 harmful
  • 0 neutral
  • 1 liberalising

SOURCE



Ministry of Development, Industry and Trade, news item of 21 May 2015: http://www.mdic.gov.br/sitio/interna/noticia.php?area=1&noticia=13791

Camex resolution no. 43 of 20 May 2015, published in the Official Gazette of 21 May 2015, p. 56: http://pesquisa.in.gov.br/imprensa/jsp/visualiza/index.jsp?jornal=1&pagina=56&data=21/05/2015

Camex resolution no. 14 of 18 February 2016, published in the Official Gazette of 19 February 2016: http://www.camex.gov.br/legislacao/interna/id/1508


Inception date: 21 May 2015 | Removal date: 20 May 2016

Import tariff quota

On 20 May 2015, the Brazilian Foreign Trade Council (Camex) issued Resolution no. 43 introducing four tariff-rate quotas on goods carrying the Mercosur Common Nomenclature (NCM):
 

  1. Acrylics and modacrylics (NCM 5503.30.00): quota of 3'744 tons, tariff rate of 2% (from 16%), for a period of 12 months, starting 26 June 2015
  2. Acrylics and modacrylics (NCM 5501.30.00): quota of 7'920 tons, tariff rate of 2% (from 16%), for a period of 12 months, starting 21 May 2015
  3. 4-Chloro-alfa, alfa, alfa-trifluoro-3.5dinitrotoluene (NCM 2904.90.14): quota of 4'404 tons, tariff rate of 2% (from 14%), for a period of 24 months, starting 21 May 2015
  4. Waste-pipes (Ex01 of NCM 8539.39.00): quota of 23.918.190 units, tariff rate of 2% (from 18%), for a period of 12 months, starting 23 July 2015

 
Update
On 19 February 2016 the Brazilian Foreign Trade Council (Camex) revoked the above standing tariff rate quota on 4-Chloro-alfa, alfa, alfa-trifluoro-3.5dinitrotoluene (NCM 2904.90.14).

AFFECTED SECTORS

 
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AFFECTED PRODUCTS

 
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