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Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber Executive Committee (GECEX/CAMEX, under the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services) approved Resolução Gecex nº 824, dated 4 December 2025, rebalancing the country's ex-tarifário IT- and telecommunications-goods (BIT) duty-relief regime. The resolution excludes a batch of expired or superseded ex-tarifário codes from Annex I of the base Resolução Gecex nº 323/2022 — reverting those products to Brazil's standard import tariff — and adds a new batch of exemptions to the Anexo Único of Resolução Gecex nº 781/2025, extending duty relief on a different set of IT/telecom products (printing equipment, data-processing machines, telecom apparatus, network/fibre-optic components, mobile-phone components) through late 2027. Global Trade Alert's analysis counts 301 IT/telecommunications products as affected by the net exclusion/inclusion changes. Published in the Diário Oficial da União on 5 December 2025, the resolution entered into force seven days after publication (12 December 2025).

Brazil's Foreign Trade Chamber executive committee (GECEX) issued Resolution No. 809 on 23 October 2025, published in the Diário Oficial da União on 24 October 2025, amending Annex I of the base IT and telecommunications-goods Ex-Tarifário regime (GECEX Resolution 323/2022) and the Single Annex of GECEX Resolution 781/2025. The resolution moves NCM tariff lines between the two annexes: items excluded from Annex I revert to Brazil's standard Mercosur Common External Tariff (TEC) rate, while items added to the 781/2025 Single Annex retain the reduced 0% Ex-tarifário rate. Global Trade Alert's intervention-level coding splits the rebalancing into a liberalising leg (116 products losing duty) and a restrictive leg (103 products across 26 six-digit NCM headings reverting to standard duty), while a Brazilian legal database separately estimates roughly 139 total Annex I line items affected (NCM range 8443.32.99– 9032.90.99), plus one item (NCM 8543.70.99, Ex 375, digital audio mixers) with updated technical specifications. The change took effect 31 October 2025, seven days after publication.

On 18 September 2025 Brazil's federal government published Medida Provisória (Provisional Measure) 1318/2025, creating REDATA — the Special Taxation Regime for Datacenter Services — alongside a parallel IT-export regime (REPES). REDATA zeroes federal taxes on servers, storage, networking, cooling and other datacenter capital equipment for qualifying operators from 1 January 2026, conditioned on 100% renewable/zero-carbon energy sourcing, a 2% of investment R&D-in-Brazil commitment, and preferential use of Brazilian- manufactured components. The Finance Ministry projects R$5.2 billion in forgone-tax incentives in 2026 alone, with potential to unlock up to R$2 trillion in private datacenter investment over ten years. REDATA is framed as implementing the National Datacenter Policy (PNDC) under the Nova Indústria Brasil industrial-policy umbrella.

On 25 August 2025, Brazil's federal government launched a combined BRL 12 billion (~USD 2.2bn) subsidised credit line to fund the diffusion of Industry 4.0 machinery and equipment across the Brazilian industrial base. BNDES (national development bank) contributes BRL 10 billion nationwide through its "Crédito Indústria 4.0" line; Finep (research-financing agency) adds BRL 2 billion via its "Difusão Tecnológica" line, reserved for companies in the North, Northeast and Center-West regions to narrow regional investment gaps. Financing covers capital goods incorporating robotics, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, sensing, machine-to-machine communication and IoT, at concessional rates of roughly 7.5-8% plus spread; credit approvals began 15 September 2025. The line operates under the Nova Indústria Brasil (NIB) national industrial-policy framework.