Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber executive committee (GECEX) issued Resolution No. 745, dated 3 July 2025 and published in the Diário Oficial da União on 4 July 2025 (Edition 124, Section 1, page 38), amending Annex I of Resolução Gecex nº 322/2022 — the Ex-Tarifário regime granting temporary duty reductions (typically to 0%) on capital- goods tariff lines with no equivalent domestic production. Sources describe roughly 429 ex-tarifário grants processed under the amendment (a mix of new and republished duty-free codes), alongside a smaller set of exclusions/revocations from the annex; the duty-free grants carry a temporary revocation date of 31 December 2025. The amendment took effect 11 July 2025 (seven days after publication). Global Trade Alert classifies the measure as a "Red" (trade-restrictive/ discriminatory) import-tariff intervention, consistent with its treatment of GECEX's narrow, discretionary Ex-Tarifário product-line grants as favouring specific importers rather than liberalising trade economy-wide.

Analyst notesShow

Mechanism

Resolução Gecex nº 322, de 4 de abril de 2022 is the base instrument governing Brazil's Ex-Tarifário regime for the general capital-goods segment (as opposed to Resolução Gecex nº 311/2022, which covers the trucks/agricultural-machinery sub-family filed separately in this register as Resolution 768). Under this regime, GECEX periodically grants temporary duty reductions (typically to 0%) on specific NCM tariff-line/Ex-code combinations following the 226th GECEX meeting (approved 1 July 2025) where the committee determined no equivalent domestic production exists, while also revoking or excluding codes that no longer qualify. Resolution 745 is one instance of GECEX's routine, high- frequency Ex-Tarifário rebalancing cycle for the capital-goods annex — the same family as companion resolutions 756, 768, 770, 772, 779, 782, 794, 795, 808, 811, 812, 816, 821, 823, 826, 842, 844, 845, 846 filed elsewhere in this register across 2025-26.

The Diário Oficial da União gazette page hosting the full resolution text (NCM/Ex-code-level detail) is currently unreachable from this collection pipeline; the amendment's existence, exact resolution number, signing date (3 July 2025) and legal subject (amending Resolução Gecex nº 322/2022) are confirmed via MDIC's own official resolutions index and secondary legal- commentary sources rather than the primary gazette page directly. Secondary sources give inconsistent granular counts for lines added versus revoked — this filing anchors on the more consistently corroborated ~429 total ex- tarifário grants figure.

Downstream implications

Marginal, product-line-specific reduction in landed costs for importers of

qualifying capital-goods lines into Brazil for the remainder of 2025 (grants revoke 31 December 2025 absent renewal) — GTA flags Australia, Austria and Belgium among the most-exposed trading partners by historical trade volume in the affected lines.

Part of GECEX's routine, high-frequency Ex-Tarifário rebalancing cycle for

the capital-goods annex rather than a standalone strategic policy shift.

Open questions

Exact NCM/Ex-code line items added, republished, or revoked by this

resolution — not confirmed pending access to the full DOU text.

Whether any of the 9 items GTA describes as tariff "increases" reflect

genuine rate hikes or simply revocations of prior duty-free Ex-Tarifário grants reverting lines to the standard MFN rate.

Sources

Primary: Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria, Comércio e Serviços (MDIC) — Resoluções Gecex sobre Alterações Tarifárias (lists Resolução Gecex nº 745, de 3 de julho de 2025, altera o Anexo I da Resolução Gecex nº 322/2022)

Secondary: Global Trade Alert state act 92571

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Mechanism

Downstream implications

Marginal, product-line-specific reduction in landed costs for importers of

Part of GECEX's routine, high-frequency Ex-Tarifário rebalancing cycle for

the capital-goods annex rather than a standalone strategic policy shift.

Open questions

Exact NCM/Ex-code line items added, republished, or revoked by this

resolution — not confirmed pending access to the full DOU text.

Whether any of the 9 items GTA describes as tariff "increases" reflect

genuine rate hikes or simply revocations of prior duty-free Ex-Tarifário grants reverting lines to the standard MFN rate.