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Ref : EIC 413/3

30 December 2015

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 1249/2015

Brazil : Modification of Import Tariffs and Establishment of Tariff Rate Quota on Various Products

The Brazilian government has modified the import tariffs of a number of products, and established tariff rate quota on certain imports.  A summary of the changes is set out as follows:

  1. Certain information technology and telecommunications goods classified under Southern Common Market (Mercosur1) Common Classification (NCM) chapters 84, 85 and 90 to benefit from a reduced duty of 2% until 31 December 2017. 
  2. Certain capital goods classified under NCM chapters 84, 85, 86, 87 and 90 to benefit from a reduced duty of 2% until 31 December 2017. 
  3. Tariff rate quota of 120,600 tonnes on certain partially oriented polyester yarn classified under NCM code 5402.46.00 has been extended from 9 October 2015 to 8 October 2016.  In-quota imports benefit from a reduced duty of 2%, while out-of-quota tariff rate is 18%. 

2.        For details of the Brazilian measures and the products involved, traders are advised to consult their importers in Brazil and/or the relevant Brazilian Resolutions (in Portuguese) which are available at:

Resolution No. 85/2015 and No. 88/2015 (relevant to item (a) above):
http://www.camex.gov.br/legislacao/interna/id/1448
http://www.camex.gov.br/legislacao/interna/id/1451
 
Resolution No. 89/2015 (relevant to item (b) above):
http://www.camex.gov.br/legislacao/interna/id/1452
 
Resolution No. 94/2015 (relevant to item (c) above):
http://www.camex.gov.br/legislacao/interna/id/1458

ENQUIRIES

3.For enquiries about the content of this circular, please contact Mr Lewis LAU at telephone number 2398 5405. 

Yours faithfully,

(Ms Lydia CHAN)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry


1 The Southern Common Market (Mercosur) includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela.

Note: While every effort is made to ensure the accuracy of the above information, the Department cannot guarantee this to be so and will not be held liable for any reliance placed on the same.