Camex eliminates import tax for nearly a thousand products not produced domestically.

THE Executive Management Committee of the Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex) The government decided this Thursday (26) to eliminate import taxes on nearly a thousand products that are not produced domestically or have insufficient supply in the domestic market. Among the items benefiting are medicines used in the treatment of diseases such as diabetes, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and schizophrenia, as well as inputs relevant to agricultural production, such as fungicides and insecticides for pest control. The list also includes products aimed at hospital nutrition, inputs for the textile industry and hops used in beer production. The measure also includes 970 items of capital goods and information technology and telecommunications equipmentOf these, 191 are provisional. The initiative seeks to expand the supply of strategic products and reduce costs for productive sectors, especially in chains with low domestic production. At the same meeting, Gecex decided to apply definitive antidumping measures, valid for five years, to imports of ethanolamines originating from China and polyethylene resins from the United States and Canada. In the case of resins, the committee opted to reduce the rates to the levels of the provisional duty in force in the last six months, in order to avoid additional impacts on the production chain.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.