São Paulo – Starting in 2016, the registration of documentation concerning product imports and exports in Brazil, which is required by the Foreign Trade Operations Department (Decex), will only be available online. According to a directive issued this Monday (31st) by the Decex, the papers needed for performing export, import and drawback operations (the latter concerns tax exemption on imported goods to be used in manufacturing a product for export) can be mailed or registered online beginning on October 15th. As of January 1st, 2016, online document submission will be the only way to go about it.
The measure is enforced by the Decex, a branch of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, and is a part of the National Exports Plan announced last June. The purpose is to cut down on paperwork, streamline foreign trade processes and improve the business environment in Brazil, the Ministry has said.
According to Decex’s director, Renato Agostinho, the measure is included in the All-in-one Portal of the Exporter and it’s one of the measures being adopted to improve foreign trade, reduce costs and shorten the time needed for the transactions. “Before, the operator needed to present the documents on-site. Now, it will be done digitally”, he said.
“Previously, the company needed to send the documentos to the several agencied involved with exports (Federal Revenue and Brazilian Health Surveillance Agency, for instance). Now, it can share the digital document with the agencies responsible for that operation”, said Agostinho. The government’s goal, with the implementation, is to reduce the time and the costs involved in a foreign trade operation. In the case of exports, the goal is to reduce the time period from 13 to eight days, and in the case of imports, from 17 to 10 days.
To make improvements in the processing of foreign trade documents, MDIC worked with agencies of other countries that are recognized as models of management, among them, technicians from the United Kingdom, South Korea and United States. Latin American nations also served as models. Other measures, such as the simplification of the requirements to those wanting to exports are also being implemented.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum and Sérgio Kakitani
