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Resolução Gecex nº 788/2025 was signed 10 September 2025 and published in the Diário Oficial da União on 12 September 2025, entering into force on publication. It is a periodic technical amendment to Resolução Gecex nº 272/2021 (the instrument that adapted Brazil's Common Mercosur Nomenclature (NCM) and Common External Tariff (TEC) schedules to the 2022 Harmonized System revision), operating under the Mercosur supply-shortage tariff-reduction mechanism (GMC Resolution nº 49/19). Gecex uses this recurring TRQ-maintenance channel — the same one used by companion resolutions nº 799 (10 October 2025), nº 812, nº 815, nº 816, nº 821 and nº 844 through year-end 2025 — to grant duty-free import quotas on narrow, supply-constrained input categories at the request of downstream Brazilian manufacturers unable to source adequate volumes domestically or from Mercosur partners.
Six new 0% TRQs were opened:
The elastomultiester filament line (NCM 5402.47.10) is the "man-made fibres" entry referenced in Global Trade Alert's classification of this state act; GTA additionally logs a companion "reduction of the in-quota volume for one product" sub-measure (classified liberalising) alongside the new-quota sub-measure (classified certainly harmful) under the same state-act record, consistent with Gecex's practice of bundling a quota-volume adjustment for a pre-existing line into the same resolution as new quota openings. The Secretaria de Comércio Exterior (Secex) is tasked with issuing complementary regulation to set import-quota allocation criteria for the new lines.
chains: household/industrial detergent manufacturing (spray-dry powder), pharmaceutical and nutraceutical production (vitamin B12), oncology cell therapy access (Tisagenlecleucel), textile dyeing (sulphur black), technical/performance textile manufacturing (elastomultiester filament), and grid transmission build-out (345kV cable).
cadence under the Gecex 272/2021 framework rather than a broader protectionist or liberalising policy shift — the same instrument type as 2025-10-10-brazil-gecex-799-tariff-quota-supply-shortage-manganese-tio2 and subsequent companion resolutions.
domestic/Mercosur-region man-made-fibre producers cannot currently meet demand for this bicomponent polyester grade, a narrow but concrete data point on Brazil's technical-textile input dependency.
(GTA-classified liberalising, effective 15 September 2025) applies to — the public Gecex 788 text amends Annex IV broadly and does not itself flag which entry is a volume reduction versus a wholly new line.
elastomultiester line, are not observable from public sources and would require Secex import-licensing data.
TRQ resolutions would indicate a persistent rather than one-off Mercosur supply gap for this synthetic-fibre grade. </content>