Brazil Resolução Gecex nº 815/2025 — Tariff-Rate Quota Modification for Six Products

Mechanism

Resolução Gecex nº 815/2025 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 (SH-2022), operating under the Mercosur supply-shortage tariff-reduction mechanism (CMC Resolution nº 49/19). Gecex uses this recurring TRQ-maintenance channel — the same mechanism later used in companion resolutions nº 816 (11 November 2025), nº 821 (2 December 2025) and nº 844 (30 December 2025) — to grant or withdraw duty-free import quotas on narrow, supply-constrained input categories, typically at the request of downstream Brazilian manufacturers who cannot source adequate volumes domestically or from Mercosur partners.

The resolution has two directionally opposite effects bundled into one instrument, valid for a one-year window (7 November 2025 – 6 November 2026) on the new quotas:

• Five new 0% TRQs: DHA (docosahexaenoic acid) nutritional preparation, NCM 2106.90.90

(80 t/year); rubber gaskets/retainers, NCM 4016.99.90 (6,250 kg/year); linen yarn, NCM 5306.10.00 (240 t/year); ballistic steel plate, NCM 7225.40.90 (400 t/year); and loudspeakers, NCM 8518.29.90 (5 million units/year).

• One quota withdrawal: monocalcium phosphate, NCM 2835.26.00, is removed from the

Annex IV duty-free list and reverts to the standard Mercosur TEC rate — an effective tariff increase for that line.

A companion instrument, Portaria Secex nº 451, de 12 de novembro de 2025, sets the import-quota allocation criteria for the new TRQ lines. Global Trade Alert flags China, Finland and Morocco as the principal affected trading partners based on historical import-origin patterns for the affected product lines.

Downstream implications

• Narrow input-cost relief for Brazilian buyers of DHA nutritional preparations, rubber

gaskets, linen yarn, ballistic steel plate and loudspeakers via the new duty-free quotas.

• Modest cost increase for importers of monocalcium phosphate, previously entering duty-free

and now subject to the standard Mercosur TEC rate.

• Consistent with Brazil's routine, multiple-times-per-year TRQ housekeeping cadence under the

Gecex 272/2021 framework — part of the same rolling instrument amended again by nº 816 (11 November 2025), nº 821 (2 December 2025) and nº 844 (30 December 2025); no signal of a broader protectionist or liberalising policy shift.

Open questions

• Whether the monocalcium phosphate quota withdrawal reflects a specific domestic-industry

petition (i.e., a Brazilian producer newly meeting demand) or a routine Mercosur-nomenclature cleanup; GTA's state-act page gates the underlying request record behind a login wall.

• Actual fill rates for the five new quotas (e.g., whether the 5-million-unit loudspeaker quota

is fully utilised) are not observable from public sources and would require Secex import- licensing data.