Brasília – Gecex, a technical body within the Brazilian foreign trade chamber Camex, said on Monday, 29, it zeroed import taxes on 65 products to ease the fallout from the coronavirus outbreak on the population. Now, Brazil has 628 coronavirus-related products with zero import taxes.
Eligible goods include medicines for pain relief, sedation, intubation, and artificial respiration, including anesthetics, tranquilizers, painkillers and antibiotics. The measure also encompasses monitors for clinical beds and Intensive Care Units (ICUs), equipment for breath gas analyses, and ICU monitoring central servers, as well as truck bodies and tank trucks to transport dangerous goods, such as oxygen.
Camex approved the temporary exemption in an extraordinary meeting upon request of the Ministry of Health. The exemption should take effect a day after it was published on Tuesday, 30. The medicine tariff exemption will encompass raw material, semifinished, loose and finished goods.
Translated by Guilherme Miranda
