More medical/hospital products and related supplies have Import Tax reduced to 0%
The Executive Management Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber (GECEX/CAMEX), through a series of Resolutions, approved to cut the import tax rate to 0% for several medical/hospital products and related supplies, until September 30, 2020. The Resolutions were published on March 17 and 25 and April 1, 2020, as reported in the previous edition of this Apex-Brasil Regulatory Report. The last Resolutions were published on April 7 and 16, 2020, which added more products used to fight the pandemic. These products are covered in several codes in the Mercosur Common Nomenclature (NCM), which comprises the six-digit codes of the Harmonized System (HS), plus two additional digits: 2801.20.90; 2907.19.90; 9028.20.10; 9026.80.00; 9018.12.90; 9018.11.00; 8713.90.00; 8713.10.00; 8705.90.90; 8421.39.90; 7606.92.00; 7324.90.00; 4819.10.00; 4818.50.00; 4015.90.00; 3923.29.90; 3923.29.10; 3401.30.00; 3401.20.90; 3401.11.90; 3401.11.10; 3006.70.00; 3005.10.20; 3004.90.59; 3004.90.49; 3004.90.47; 3004.90.45; 3004.90.41; 3004.90.39; 3004.49.90; 3004.39.99; 3004.20.71; 3004.20.69; 3004.20.59; 3004.10.19; 3004.10.12; 3003.90.69; 3003.90.59; 3003.90.57; 3003.90.51; 3003.90.49; 3003.49.90; 3003.39.99; 3003.20.99; 3003.20.71; 3003.20.69; 3003.20.59; 3003.10.19; 3003.10.12; 3001.90.90; 3001.90.10; 2941.90.99; 2941.90.89; 2941.90.62; 2941.90.49; 2941.90.39; 2933.11.11; 2941.10.90; 2941.10.20; 2939.79.90; 2941.50.10; 2941.90.31; 2939.19.00; 2939.11.69; 2939.11.62; 2939.11.61; 2937.90.90; 2937.21.20; 2934.99.99; 2933.91.53; 2933.91.42; 2933.39.46; 2933.39.15; 2933.33.63; 2933.29.93; 2932.19.10; 2925.29.23; 2924.29.52; 2924.29.49; 2923.90.20; 2922.50.99; 2922.29.90. For more information (in Portuguese): http://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/resolucao-n-17-de-17-de-marco-de-2020-248564246 ; http://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/resolucao-n-22-de-25-de-marco-de-2020-249807290 ; http://www.camex.gov.br/resolucoes-camex-e-outros-normativos/58-resolucoes-da-camex/2683-resolucao-n-28-de-1-de-abril-de-2020 ; http://www.in.gov.br/en/web/dou/-/resolucao-n-31-de-7-de-abril-de-2020-251704729 ; and http://www.camex.gov.br/resolucoes-camex-e-outros-normativos/58-resolucoes-da-camex/2687-resolucao-n-32-de-16-de-abril-de-2020
