Choose your direction
Importing into Brazil, or sourcing Brazilian commodities from abroad.
Importing into Brazil
Who can file the declaration, what must be registered before you can sell, what the tax stack costs, and where licensing fits. Every figure sourced and dated.
Enter → Buy Brazilian commodities from abroadSourcing from Brazil
Buying beef, coffee, sugar or leather from Brazil from abroad. Verify the exporter, structure the payment, inspect the cargo, choose a basis and a port.
Enter →Work with us directly
Services
What we do, what you get, and the price where we can quote one without a call. See all services → · Pricing →
Brazil market entry assessment
A paid, 2-3 week answer on whether your product sells in Brazil, to whom, at what price, and what stands in the way, before you commit to a company.
Read →Sourcing from BrazilBrazilian supplier search
A checked shortlist of Brazilian exporters for your commodity, not a directory listing. Registries confirmed before you talk to anyone.
Read →Sourcing from BrazilBrazilian supplier due diligence
A written report on a Brazilian exporter you already found: registries, plant clearance and documents checked, with what each check does not prove.
Read →Sourcing from BrazilPre-shipment inspection coordination
We book and coordinate independent pre-shipment inspection on Brazilian commodity shipments. We do not inspect the cargo ourselves.
Read →Sourcing from Brazil
Commodity guides
The pack is not the same for green coffee as it is for wet blue hides. Each guide is written to be read against one shipment.
How Brazilian green coffee is officially graded
The official Brazilian classification (IN MAPA 08/2003) grades green coffee by type, cup, screen, colour, category and preparation. How it differs from SCA.
Read →BeefHow to verify a Brazilian beef exporter
SIF is the only federal stamp cleared to export. Check the plant against your destination country and watch for the non-SIF red flag before paying.
Read →PoultryHow to verify a Brazilian poultry exporter before you buy
Check the SIF plant against your destination country, confirm halal accreditation where the market needs it, and read the red flags before paying for chicken.
Read →LeatherWhat wet blue is, and where it sits in leather processing
Raw to wet blue to crust to finished: what wet blue actually is, how it is traded by area, weight and moisture, and why Brazil ships so much of it.
Read →Verify a supplierVerifying a Brazilian exporter before you commit
Four free public registries, the document set by commodity, the scam pattern, and independent inspection. What each check proves, and where it stops.
Read →Getting paidPaying a Brazilian exporter: the four instruments and what protects you
Open account, collection, letter of credit or cash in advance sit on one risk scale. Plus what Brazil's exchange rules do, and how to vet the party.
Read →Importing into Brazil
Key topics
Who can file the declaration, what must be registered before you can sell, and what the tax stack comes to once everything lands.
How Brazil's import taxes cascade
Six charges, one calculated on itself. The order, the base for each tax, verified rates for four codes, and where published sources contradict each other.
Read →ICMSICMS on imports, state by state
Import ICMS by state, from 18% in Sao Paulo to 21% in Goias, with the supérfluos and cosmetics carve-outs and the act behind each rate.
Read →Customs accessRADAR and Siscomex: who can actually import into Brazil
A foreign company cannot be the importer of record. Accreditation modalities, their real limits, the three import structures and where licensing fits.
Read →ANVISAWhat ANVISA registration means for an importer
Registro, Notificacao and Comunicacao for food. For cosmetics, a closed list of nine groups needs Registro; everything else is comunicacao previa.
Read →CompanySetting up a Brazilian company as a foreign founder
Foreign capital gets national treatment under Lei 14.286/2021, and the administrator does not have to live in Brazil. Two rules most guides state wrongly.
Read →EU-MercosurExporting to Brazil under EU-Mercosur: what actually changed
The trade part applies from 1 May 2026. See which duties fell, what the cut is worth after Brazil's tax cascade, and what stayed exactly the same.
Read →Tools
Free tools, no sign-up
Nothing you enter is sent anywhere; every calculation runs in your browser. See all tools →
Brazil landed cost estimator
A small set of verified NCM codes, each rate sourced to its act. Duty, IPI, PIS/COFINS and ICMS through the full cascade, no data sent anywhere.
Read →Importing into BrazilBrazil employer cost calculator
The real monthly cost of a CLT hire in Brazil: INSS, RAT, FGTS, third parties, 13th salary and vacation, each with its rate and act.
Read →Both directionsBrazil business calendar
National holidays 2026-2027, banking non-business days, and dated regulatory deadlines from the DI shutdown to the 2033 end of ICMS, each with its act.
Read →Importing into BrazilBrazil market readiness check
Eight questions on your product, regulator, buyer, entry route, experience, pricing, language and budget. A tier and a next step, no promises.
Read →Brazilian exporter document checklist
Coffee, beef, poultry, sugar, soybean meal and wet blue leather. Regulatory documents, the commercial set and the registries to confirm, with the status of each.
How we work
From first message to a checked deal
Tell us the deal
Product, direction and where you want it to land. One message with the specifics is enough to start.
We check the ground
The supplier or the buyer, the registration, the tax that lands on it, and the rule that applies to your product code.
You get a plan
Sourced figures, each with the act behind it and the date we checked it. We do not invent a range to fill a gap.
We run it with you
Contract, inspection and shipment on sourcing; the Brazil-side registration and setup on importing.
Why Brazil, why now
A large market to sell into, and the origin of the goods the world buys.
For many foreign businesses there is still little competition on the ground here. We can run the deal for a client from almost anywhere, working in English or Portuguese. We describe the instruments and the rules, and we do not give financial advice.
Who does the work
Your team on the ground
One operator in Rio de Janeiro who runs the deal, plus a partner network for the parts that need a licence.
Marketing, sales and the deal
Positioning, the site, lead work, presales, market entry and coordination. This is the desk you talk to.
Lawyer · OAB
Company formation, contracts and legal cover, through a registered Brazilian lawyer in the network.
Accountant · CRC
Bookkeeping, tax filing and the Brazilian company's obligations, through a registered accountant.
Customs broker · despachante
Clearance and the import or export paperwork at the port, through a licensed despachante aduaneiro.
Questions
What people ask before they start
Do you sell the goods?
No. When you source from Brazil we stay independent and do not take a position in the cargo. Our job is to check the exporter and protect the deal, not to move a lot.
What languages do you work in?
English and Portuguese. The work on the Brazilian side happens in Portuguese, and you get it back in the language we share.
Where are you based?
Rio de Janeiro. Suppliers, factories and shipments are checked in person, not from a catalogue.
How are your figures sourced?
Every rate on this site carries the act it comes from and the date it was checked. Where there is no reliable number, we say so instead of inventing a range.