The Brazilian Foreign Trade Management Committee (Gecex), operating in the Camex structure, has reset the import duty rate (Imposto de Importação) on 11 commodity items. The decision was formalized by GECEX Resolution No. 939 dated July 17, 2026. The benefit is provided with established quotas and certain validity periods for each position.
Such resolutions are a routine but vital tool of Brazilian trade policy: Gecex regularly zeroes or reduces duties on goods that are not available on the domestic market or that are not produced in the country at all. Usually, the decision is accompanied by a quantitative quota — the zeroed rate is valid only within its limits, and the standard tariff is applied above the quota.
Resolution No. 939 was released in a dense stream of Gecex decisions in July. In the same month, the committee also approved an export duty on crude oil and bituminous minerals (resolution No. 938 of July 9), revised the expiration dates for auto parts without national production (No. 935 of July 2) and reviewed a number of anti-dumping revisions for goods from China, Malaysia, Pakistan and Turkey. Against this background, the point—by-point zeroing of duties on 11 items is part of the current fine-tuning of the tariff grid, and not a one-time measure.
It is the quota nature of the benefit that is important for businesses: a zero rate does not guarantee free import of any volume of goods. Importers need to clarify with the broker or in the text of the resolution the exact NCM (Brazilian Commodity nomenclature) code, the size of the quota and its period of validity — quotas for Gecex goods are often distributed by quarters or other sub-periods, and the unused balance is not carried over to the next period.
Brazilian companies importing raw materials or components should request the full text of resolution No. 939 from a customs broker and check whether their products are included in the list of 11 items. It is wise for those whose goods fall under the exemption to plan their purchase within the quota in advance — the high demand in the last weeks of the period typically exhausts the limit faster than expected.
