Brazil GECEX Resolution 731: Non-Produced Auto Parts list amended, 11 tariff lines re-rated

Mechanism

Brazil's Regime de Autopeças Não Produzidas grants Ex-Tarifário (temporary Import Tax rate reduction, typically to 2%) on auto parts for which no equivalent domestic production exists, administered under the base regulation GECEX Resolution No. 284/2021. GECEX periodically amends the underlying annexes as manufacturers petition for new parts to be added (duty reduction) or as domestic production capacity for a given part comes online (duty relief revoked). Resolution 731 is one such routine maintenance cycle: it adds/expands Ex-Tarifário treatment on 10 tariff lines and withdraws it on 1, published in the Diário Oficial da União on 20 May 2025 and entering into force seven days later per the resolution's standard commencement clause.

This sits in the same recurring GECEX auto-parts list-maintenance stream as Resolutions 750, 768, 783, 795, 826 and 842 already on the register — Brazil runs this mechanism on an ongoing basis (roughly monthly-to-bimonthly cadence through 2025).

Downstream implications

• Narrow, incremental measure — affects a small, product-specific set of

auto-parts tariff lines rather than a sector-wide rate change.

• Consistent with Brazil's broader 2025 pattern of frequent Ex-Tarifário

list maintenance to support domestic auto-parts manufacturers while keeping import costs down for parts genuinely unavailable locally.

Open questions

• The specific 11 NCM/HS tariff-line codes and their pre/post rates were

not itemized in the sources reviewed here (GTA state-act page requires sign-in for full annex detail; the gov.br listing page does not carry the full resolution text). A follow-up amendment entry can fill this in if the annex text is later sourced.