Brazil Resolução GECEX Nº 816/2025 — Temporary Tariff Modification for Six Products under Annex IX

Mechanism

Resolução Gecex Nº 272/2021 adapted Brazil's Nomenclatura Comum do Mercosul (NCM) and Common External Tariff (TEC) schedules to the 2022 Harmonized System revision, and established Annex IX as a standing list of temporary tariff increases applied "for reasons of trade imbalances derived from the international economic situation" — Brazil's version of a safeguard-style tariff-rebalancing schedule that Gecex revises periodically as global trade-flow conditions shift.

Resolução Gecex Nº 816 (11 November 2025, in force 13 November 2025, revocation scheduled 12 November 2026) is one such periodic revision, tracked by Global Trade Alert as two linked interventions under the same state act:

• Temporary tariff increase (five products): GTA classifies this intervention as

"certainly harmful" (an import-tariff increase); the five affected NCM lines fall within the pulp/paper, other-plastics-products, and structural-metal-products categories per the GTA sector tagging. Full NCM codes and the specific rate change are gated behind GTA's login wall and were not independently retrievable from the public MDIC listing during filing.

• Temporary tariff decrease (one product, NCM 7610.90.00): aluminium structures and parts

thereof (excluding prefabricated buildings) — GTA classifies this as a "liberalising" intervention (a duty-relief measure).

Both directions are bundled into a single resolution with a one-year sunset, consistent with Annex IX's function as a temporary, situation-driven adjustment mechanism rather than a permanent tariff-schedule change.

Downstream implications

• Narrow, product-specific effect: input-cost relief for Brazilian importers/processors of

aluminium structures (NCM 7610.90.00), offset by higher import costs on five other lines in the pulp/paper, plastics, and structural-metal product space.

• Consistent with Brazil's recurring practice (seen across the Gecex 272/2021 series — e.g.

Resoluções 826, 842, 844) of using narrow, sunset-bound tariff-schedule amendments rather than broad trade-remedy actions to manage specific import-competition pressure points.

• One-year sunset (12 November 2026) means the register should check whether Gecex lets the

measure lapse, extends it, or folds it into a successor Annex IX resolution.

Open questions

• Exact NCM codes and the specific tariff-rate change (old rate vs. new rate) for the five

products in the tariff-increase intervention were not independently confirmed; both the GTA state-act page and intervention pages gate this detail behind a login requirement, and no direct Diário Oficial da União text for Resolução 816 was retrievable via public search during filing.

• Which countries' exporters are most exposed — GTA's "affected" country tagging was

truncated in the discovery-queue summary (Austria, Belgium, Canada, and others) and could not be confirmed against the full state-act text.