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Committee on Import Licensing  Original: English
 
 AGREEMENT ON IMPORT LICENSING PROCEDURES 
NOTIFICATION UNDER ARTICLE 5 
BRAZIL 
 
The following communication, dated 20 October 2014, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Brazil. 
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  (a) List of products subject to licensing procedures 
 
The lists of products subject to import licensing are available at SISCOMEX’s website http://www.portalsiscomex.gov.br/),  and may be found as well on Brazil’s Ministry of 
Development, Industry and Foreign Trad e website http://www.md ic.gov.br/sitio/. 
 Whenever an import license is required, applications for both automatic and non-automatic import 
licensing are effected using Brazil’s Foreign Trade Integrated System (SISCOMEX). SISCOMEX is 
Brazil’s ongoing single window initiative, a work still in process, to which all other online and offline import-related procedures are converging.  
(b) Contact point for information on eligibility 
 The focal point for information on import licensing is the Department for Foreign Trade 
Competitiveness (DECOE), a unit pertaining to Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretariat (SECEX), 
available at the following electronic address: http://decoe.cgnf@mdic.gov.br. Enquiries should be addressed to the Coordinator-General of Rule s for Trade Facilitation and Foreign Trade 
Competitiveness. Information may also be obtained through the SISCOMEX website or at the 
following address:  "Secretaria de Comércio Exterior (SECEX) 
EQN 102/103, Lote 1, Asa Norte 
CEP: 70722-400 Brasília, DF, Brasil." 
 
(c) Administrative bodies for su bmission of applications 
 
Applications are submitted through SISCOMEX to the Department of Foreign Trade Operations 
(DECEX), a unit of Brazil’s Foreign Trade Secretariat (SECEX), which is the main office for managing import licenses. Depending on the produc t, the following governmental bodies may take 
part in the licensing procedures: 
 
ANCINE – National Cinema Agency; ANEEL – Nati onal Electric Energy Agency; ANP – National 
Petroleum Agency; ANVISA – National Health Surveillance Agency; CNEN – Brazilian Nuclear 
Energy Commission; CNPq – National Council for Scientific and Technological Development; DFPC 
– Board of Controlled Products (Brazilian Army); DNPM – National Department of Mineral Production; DPF - Department of Federal Police; EBCT – Brazilian Mail and Telegraph Company; 
IBAMA – Brazilian Institute of Environment and Na tural Renewable Resources; INMETRO – National G/LIC/N/2/BRA/6 
 
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  Institute of Metrology, Standardization and Industrial Quality; MAPA – Ministry of Agriculture, 
Livestock and Supply; MCTI – Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation; SUFRAMA – Manaus Free Trade Zone Superintendence.  
(d) Date and name of publication where impo rt licensing procedures are published 
 -  Decreto nº 660, of 25 September 1992, institut ing Brazil's Foreign Trade Integrated System 
(SISCOMEX), as amended by Decreto nº 8229, of 22 April 2014, adapting SISCOMEX to 
Brazil's single window initiative. Latest version published in Brazil's Official Gazette on 23 April 2014. 
 
- Portaria Interministerial MF/MICT nº 291, of 12 December 1996, on processing import 
operations within SISCOMEX. Published in Brazil's Official Gazette on 13 December 1996. 
 
-  Portaria SECEX nº 23, of 14 July 2011, consolidating regulations on foreign trade operations. 
Chapter II regulates import licenses in Brazil, as amended by further Portarias. Published in Brazil's Official Gazette on 19 July 2011. 
 
-  Portaria DECEX nº 8, of 13 May 1991, on importation of used goods, as amended by further 
Portarias. Published in Brazil's Official Gazette on 13 May 1991. 
 
All rules, as well as their further updates, are available online at SISCOMEX website 
(http://www.portalsiscomex. gov.br/legislacao) (Portuguese only). 
 
(e) Indication of whether the procedure is automatic or non-automatic  
 Information on whether the procedure is automatic or non-automatic depends on each specific 
product and is available online at the SISCOMEX website. 
 (f) Administrative purpose of auto matic licensing procedures  
 
Monitoring through automatic licenses is used for statistical purposes. 
 (g) Indication of the measure being implemented through the non-automatic licensing 
procedure 
 Non-automatic import licensing in Brazil is used to monitor products that may pose risks to 
human, animal, or plant health, or that may cause environmental damage. Weapons and other 
products that could be used for military purposes are also subject to non-automatic import licenses due to safety and security reasons. Non-automatic licenses are also used for products subject to quotas, in accordance with WTO agreements. 
 
The following operations are subject to non-automatic import licensing: imports processed under the Manaus Free Trade Zone and other free trade areas special regimes; imports subject to 
licensing by Brazil's National Council on Scientific and Technological Development; importation of 
used goods, subject to the exceptions set out in paragraphs 2 and 3 of Article 43 of Portaria SECEX nº 23/2011; imports originated in countries with restrictions contained in Resolutions by the 
United Nations; importation of goods for replacement, as regulated by Portaria MF nº 150, 
26 July 1982; operations that may indicate fraud; goods subject to trade defense measures and goods identical to those subject to trade defense measures, when originated from producers or countries not subject to those measures. 
 
(h) Expected duration of the licensing procedures 
 
There is no deadline for the duration of the adop ted measures, considering the importance of the 
goals indicated in item (g), above.  
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