Camex waives import tariffs on another 25 items in fight against Coronavirus

The Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex) has removed import taxes on an additional 25 components and accessories used to manufacture and operate respirators and lung ventilators as well as protective masks. The measure aims to encourage supply of these items in Brazil in the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. “The goods included in the Single Annex to this Resolution will only have the import tax reduced to zero when used in the fight against Coronavirus / COVID-19”, highlights Gecex Resolution 28/2020, published this Friday (03/04) in the Federal Official Gazette. This measure complements previous reductions, adopted by Gecex Resolutions 17/2020 and 22/2020, which waived tariffs on 111 items used directly to combat the pandemic.

The new reduction covers 22 NCM codes, some of which had tariffs as high as 26%.  The taxes will remain at zero until September 30, 2020.  The products listed range from fabrics for the manufacture of protective masks and metallic support for breathing circuits, to gas micromixers for pulmonary ventilators, printed circuit boards and air or oxygen flow sensors for resuscitation breathing devices, as well as sensors for ventilators. and pulmonary compliance simulators to monitor ventilatory volumes and pressures.

Items such as motherboards, touch screen controller boards, touch screen panels, LCD monitors and industrial microSD memory cards are also listed, as are engines, lead-acid and lithium batteries.

Other measures

In addition to reducing import tariffs to zero to COVID-19, other measures are as follows:

– The temporary suspension, for reasons of public interest, of anti-dumping duties on blood collection tubes and disposable syringes, as well as the requirement for non-automatic licensing on the import of these products;

– Reduction to zero of the Tax on Industrialized Products (IPI) for imported goods essential to combat COVID-19;

– Simplification of customs import clearance to maintain a fast flow of supply of essential items and avoid bottlenecks in customs areas by speeding up the delivery of cargo;

– Non-automatic export licensing, for the government to monitor the supply and demand conditions of products used to combat the pandemic in the domestic market, allowing only the surplus to be exported;

– Elimination of import licenses by Secex, Inmetro and Anvisa for essential products;

– Simplification of the requirements to import medical devices, in addition to simplifying the requirements for manufacturing and purchasing priority medical devices for use in healthcare services, such as surgical masks, goggles and N-95 respirators.

The Gecex Resolution No. 28/2020 shows the complete list of products that have had their import tax zeroed.

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