How to Export to Brazil - Sprint Lazio

• 25% on long-range navigation;
• 10% on cabotage; and
• 40% on lake and river navigation.
Brazil – Ministry of External Relations
The AFRMM is not levied upon the freight of goods originating in Mercosur member
countries and those included in international agreements signed by Brazil, which
may contain specific clauses on the exemption of this tax, such as those with ALADI
and Andean Community countries. These exceptions are applicable upon the
presentation of the Certificate of Origin.
III.6.8. Fee on the use of Siscomex
The fee charged for the use of Siscomex, as the name indicates, aims to cover the
costs in the utilization of the Integrated Foreign Trade System by the importer to
register their Import Declaration. The value of the fee varies according to the number
of NCM classifications that are recorded on the DI, as indicated on the table in article
13 of the SRF NI n° 680/06.
The minimum fee is R$ 40.00 (around US$ 18.00). On average, the sum that is charged
is around R$ 50.00 (US$ 22.00) for each Import Declaration.
III.6.9. Trade defense
Trade defense measures are those aiming to protect the domestic industry and
may be applied as a result of unfair practices (dumping and subsidies) or due to
difficulties encountered by certain national industries in the face of import peaks
(safeguarding). The World Trade Organization agreements make provision for
the need of investigation in such cases. The right to defense is assured to the
interested parties and they have to prove the existence of the practice in question,
the damage and proof of cause. The defense made has to be based on facts
and pertinent evidence. In Brazil, the agency responsible for analyzing the
pertinence and merit of requests to initiate investigations into dumping, subsidies
and safeguards, with a view to defending domestic production, is the Department
of Commercial Defense (DECOM), which is part of the Foreign Trade Secretariat
(SECEX).
It is important to note that, although trade defense measures are addressed in this
section, only safeguards have a fiscal nature.
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