From the Newsroom
São Paulo – The Development, Industry and Foreign Trade Ministry should publish, today, a new list of products subject to previous inspection before export. From this list, 638 products that used to be controlled by the Federal Police Department (DPF) or by the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) have been eliminated. The measure is included in the set of actions that went into practice at the beginning of last year, reducing foreign trade bureaucracy, informed the Ministry, in a statement.
"With the measure, Brazilian exporters no longer need previous authorization by these federal organizations for trade of the products that have been removed from the list," informed the ministry.
Most of the products eliminated are medications and raw material for medication (various hormones, organic products, and medications for therapeutic use, for example). As the products were inspected by the receiving country in case it thought inspection necessary, the DPF and Anvisa decided it was unnecessary for the country to analyse them. According to the Ministry, "in case it is noticed that elimination of these procedures causes any problem, previous inspection will become necessary once again."
According to estimates by the Development, Industry, and Foreign Trade Ministry, the business volume of products that have been removed from the list reached around US$ 187 million last year.
This reduction of the list of products subject to previous inspection is part of the Development Ministry strategy to reduce bureaucracy in the export process. At the beginning of September, Development minister Furlan had already announced the first measures in this respect, eliminating previous inspection of 200 products, consolidating 54 Decrees by the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex) in one document, and repealing 29 Ministry Decrees.
Other measures are being studied, and suggestions for improvement of the export norms are being followed by the Technical Work Group for reduction of bureaucracy. Comments may be sent to the following e-mail: [email protected].
