Brazil Resolução Gecex nº 847/2026 — Temporary Tariff Increase on Polyester and Copolymer Products (Anexo IX)

Mechanism

Gecex's Anexo IX mechanism lets the committee list specific NCM (Mercosur tariff nomenclature) lines for a temporary duty above the Common External Tariff (TEC) without a full anti-dumping or safeguard investigation — the same instrument used for Resolução 845/2026 two weeks earlier. Resolução nº 847 combines an Anexo IX rate increase with a narrow tariff-rate-quota (TRQ) opening:

The resolution was adopted at Gecex's 233rd ordinary meeting (28 January 2026) and published the following day in the DOU.

Downstream implications

• Raises landed cost for importers of the general-purpose polyester

liquid/paste line (NCM 3907.99.91) into Brazil by widening the gap between the standard 20% rate and the 12.6% carve-outs reserved for two specific dispersant/film-forming sub-grades.

• The 1,500-tonne TRQ on the styrene-butadiene copolymer grade offers

narrow relief to buyers of that specific input while the broader polyester line faces the increase — consistent with Brazil's pattern of bundling a protective increase with a compensating TRQ in the same Anexo IX instrument (cf. Resolução 846/2026).

• Feeds into coatings, adhesives and polymer-processing chains that use

polyester resins and styrene-butadiene copolymers as primary inputs.

Open questions

• The domestic producer(s) the 20% increase is designed to protect are

not named in the resolution text.

• Whether the two 12.6% sub-line carve-outs reflect the absence of

domestic production for those specific dispersant/film-forming grades.