Brazil Resolução Gecex nº 843/2025 — Temporary Import-Tariff Increase on Glass and Compressor Products

Mechanism

Resolução Gecex nº 843/2025 amends Annex IX of 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) and that also carries Brazil's recurring "elevações tarifárias por razões de desequilíbrios comerciais derivados da conjuntura econômica internacional" list (temporary tariff increases justified by trade imbalances stemming from the international economic situation). Unlike the Annex IV/V tariff-rate-quota housekeeping seen in companion resolutions (e.g. Gecex nº 844/2025, filed separately), an Annex IX addition is a defensive tariff action: it raises the applied duty on a named NCM line up to Brazil's WTO-bound ceiling — 35% for the large majority of non-capital-goods tariff lines — for a fixed term, functioning as a lighter-weight, faster-to-deploy alternative to a full anti-dumping or safeguard investigation.

Resolução nº 843 adds six products under five NCM headings covering glass and glass products, and pumps/compressors, per Global Trade Alert's state-act summary of the measure. GTA records an announcement date of 24 December 2025, an effective date of 26 December 2025, and an expiration of 25 December 2026 — a 12-month listing, the mechanism's typical term. GTA names Algeria, China and Czechia as the principal exporting countries affected by the listing, consistent with Brazil's pattern of using Annex IX to blunt import surges concentrated in a small number of supplying markets rather than applying an MFN-wide increase.

Downstream implications

• Cost increase (toward the 35% WTO-bound ceiling) for importers of the five affected NCM

lines covering glass/glass products and compressors/pumps sourced from Algeria, China and Czechia.

• Narrow, product-line-specific measure — six products across five NCM codes — rather than a

sector-wide tariff shift; likely reflects a specific domestic-industry complaint about import-price pressure on these lines rather than a broad protectionist turn.

• Consistent with Brazil's recurring use of the Gecex 272/2021 Annex IX mechanism as a fast,

investigation-free trade-defense lever, distinct from its parallel anti-dumping caseload (steel, optical fibre, TiO2, ethanolamines, etc. filed elsewhere in this register).

Open questions

• The exact five NCM codes and the pre-existing (baseline) duty rate on each line were not

independently confirmed — the Diário Oficial da União full-text publication (in.gov.br, resolução Gecex nº 843, de 23 de dezembro de 2025) could not be retrieved directly during filing; the 35% figure reflects the standard Annex IX ceiling rate for this mechanism, not a line-by-line confirmed rate for this specific resolution.

• Whether this listing responds to a specific import-surge complaint from a Brazilian glass or

compressor manufacturer, or is a routine periodic Annex IX refresh.