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20 October 2020  
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Committee on Anti -Dumping Practices  
Committee on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures  
Committee on Safeguards  Original: English  
 
 
NOTIFICATION OF LAWS AND REGULATIONS UNDER  
ARTICLES 18.5, 32.6 AND 12.6 OF THE AGREEMENTS  
BRAZIL 
Supplement  
The following notification, dated 19 October 2020, is being circulated at the request of the delegation 
of Brazil.  
 
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ORDINANCE NO. 21, DATED MARCH 30TH, 2020  
Provides for notifications and communication directed to interested parties regarding trade defense 
administrative pr ocedures established by Decrees No. 1488, dated May 11, 1995, No. 1751, dated 
December 19, 1995, and No. 8058, dated July 26, 2013, and on trade agreements in force in Brazil.  
THE SECRETARY OF FOREIGN TRADE TO THE SPECIAL SECRETARIAT OF FOREIGN TRADE 
AND I NTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE ECONOMY , in the use of the 
attributions conferred to him by Article 91, item VIII of Decree No. 9,745, dated April 8 , 2019, 
decides the following, pending the public health emergency situation of international i mportance 
that arose from coronavirus (COVID -19), as well as the protection measures adopted in Brazil and 
overseas to confront such situation, including actions implemented by the Ministry of the Economy 
and by the Brazilian Post and Telegraph Company (CO RREIOS):  
CHAPTER I  
NOTIFICATION OF PROPERLY DOCUMENTED APPLICATION  
Article 1. In trade defense case files established by Decrees No. 1488, dated May 11, 1995, 
No. 1751, dated December 19, 1995, and No. 8058, dated July 26, 2013, and in trade agreements 
in force in Brazil which it is necessary to send a notification regarding the existence of a properly 
documented application to the government of an exporting country, the Undersecretariat of Trade 
Defense and Public Interest of the Ministry of the Economy will send the notification though electronic 
mail to the official representation of such country in Brazil prior to the publication of the Secretariat 
of Foreign Trade notice which publicly announces the initiation of the procedure.  
Sole Paragraph. If no official representation is verified in Brazil, official communication with foreign 
interested parties will be sent with the aid of the Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations.  G/ADP/N/1/BRA/3/Suppl.13 • G/SCM/N/1/BRA/2/Suppl.16 • G/SG/N/1/BRA/3/Suppl.7  
 
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  CHAPTER II  
NOTICE OF INITIATION  
Article 2. Interested parties w ill be notified through electronic mail of the initiation of trade defense 
procedures established on Decrees No. 1488, of 1995, No. 1751, of 1995, and No. 8058, of 2013 
and on trade agreements in force in Brazil.  
Paragraph 1. For the purpose of handing the  notifications set forth in the chapeau, the 
Undersecretariat of Trade Defense and Public Interest of the Ministry of the Economy will identify 
the electronic addresses of interested parties preferably according to the registration data kept by 
the Brazili an Special Secretariat of Federal Revenue of the Ministry of the Economy.  
Paragraph 2. Complying with the dispositions of the sole paragraph of Article 1, the notifications set 
forth in the chapeau intended to the governments of the countries that export t he product subject 
to the investigation will be sent through electronic mail to the official representation of such countries 
in Brazil and such notifications will contain a list of foreign producers or exporters identified as 
interested parties by the Und ersecretariat of Trade Defense and Public Interest of the Ministry of the 
Economy.  
Paragraph 3. The Undersecretariat of Trade Defense and Public Interest of the Ministry of the 
Economy will register in the corresponding trade defense case files the name an d, when applicable, 
the Legal Entity National Registration number of interested parties that could not be identified 
according to the chapeau due to lack of information or inaccuracy regarding their available electronic 
addresses identified by this Underse cretariat.  
Article 3. The data and information necessary for the fact -finding phase of trade defense 
proceedings, as well as the format and deadlines for its presentation will be included in the notice of 
the Undersecretariat of Trade Defense and Public In terest of the Ministry of the Economy that 
initiates the corresponding trade defense case.  
CHAPTER III  
FURTHER NOTICES AND CORESPONDENCE OF THE UNDERSECRETARIAT OF TRADE 
DEFENSE AND PUBLIC INTEREST  
Article 4. Once the trade defense case has been initiated,  the Undersecretariat of Trade Defense and 
Public Interest of the Ministry of the Economy will send electronically to the interested parties 
notifications and correspondence regarding other actions adopted within the scope of such case 
through the followin g means:  
I – DECOM Digital System (SDD), regulated by SECEX Ordinance No. 30, dated June 7 , 2018;  
II – Electronic mail, according to the dispositions of the sole paragraph of Article 1 and paragraph 1 
of Article 2.  
Sole Paragraph. The dispositions of the chapeau do not apply to the interested parties mentioned on 
paragraph 3 of Article 2, except in cases which such parties qualify legal representatives within the 
scope of the trade defense case in question or indicate an electronic address through which th ey 
wish to receive notices in the terms of the chapeau.  
CHAPTER IV  
FINAL DISPOSITIONS  
Article 5. The Undersecretariat of Trade Defense and Public Interest of the Ministry of the Economy 
will assume that the interested parties are aware of the documents se nt electronically in the terms 
of this Ordinance 3 (three) days after the date they were forwarded,  th according to the dispositions 
of Article 19 of Law No. 12,995, dated June 18 , 2014.  
Article 6. This Ordinance shall come into force on the date it was p ublished.  
 
LUCAS FERRAZ  
 
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