Orvion — Your Side in Brazil | Customs Broker, Tax Regimes, Clearance

Before anything else

How Brazil actually works.

Four things about Brazilian customs that no one tells a foreign supplier.

You cannot clear customs in your own name

A company without a Brazilian tax ID can’t be the importer. Someone here has to be — a local importer, an import agent acting on your order, or your own subsidiary. That choice changes who pays the tax and who controls the cargo.

The taxes stack, and one of them feeds itself

Import duty, IPI, PIS/COFINS and state ICMS apply in sequence, each on a base that already includes the previous ones — and ICMS is calculated on a base that includes ICMS itself. The headline rate is never the real rate.

Licensing no longer depends on the code alone

Under DUIMP, whether Anatel, Inmetro, Anvisa or MAPA has to approve your product depends on the attributes declared in the product catalogue, not just the NCM. One wrong attribute and the cargo waits at the port.

Antidumping duties name the factory

Brazil’s antidumping measures target specific producers, not just countries. Same product, different plant, completely different duty. This is checked before you quote, never after.

Special customs regimes

Brazil taxes imports heavily — and then offers a way around it.

There is a full set of special customs regimes here. Whether your cargo qualifies depends on the product and on what your buyer does with it. Most foreign suppliers never find out they were eligible.

Drawback Suspension

material transformed and re-exported

Import duty, IPI, PIS/COFINS and ICMS suspended on the material your buyer turns into an exported product.

taxes suspended on entry

Ex-Tarifário

machinery and capital goods

Import duty cut — frequently to zero — for goods with no Brazilian equivalent. Used machinery included, via similarity licensing.

import duty reduced

Temporary Admission

trade shows, testing, leasing

Equipment that comes in for a fixed period and leaves: tax proportional to the time it stays, or fully suspended.

pay only for the time it stays

Bonded Warehouse

stock held before the sale

Your goods sit in Brazil and are only taxed when they leave the warehouse. Ready stock in-market without advancing a cent of tax.

taxed only on release

RECOF

continuous industrial operations

Suspension for recurring manufacturing, controlled through one system instead of act by act.

continuous suspension

TTD · Santa Catarina

entry through SC ports

A state ICMS benefit for imports coming through Santa Catarina. It cuts the ICMS your buyer pays — and it decides which port your cargo should enter through.

state ICMS reduced

Not every shipment qualifies. We tell you which regime fits before you quote, and what your buyer has to commit to in order to keep it.
Ask about your product →

What we do

We are the Brazilian end of your operation.

Almost nothing that goes wrong for a foreign supplier goes wrong on their own side. Our job is to make the Brazilian leg something you can budget, explain to your customer and repeat.

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Import structure

Importer of record · own subsidiary

Local importer, import on your account and order, or your own Brazilian entity. Each one carries a different tax burden, a different risk and a different level of control over your customer.

Start here

Landed cost, opened line by line

II · IPI · PIS/COFINS · ICMS

Every tax and every port charge broken out for your product and your shipment, including how much the ICMS changes depending on the state of entry. A number you can take into a negotiation.

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Regime structuring

Drawback · Ex-Tarifário · Bonded

Which regime your cargo can enter under, what the paperwork requires, and what your Brazilian buyer has to do to keep the benefit alive through to the end.

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Licensing and agencies

Anatel · Inmetro · Anvisa · MAPA

Which agency governs your product, how long approval takes, who has to file it and what the certification will require from your factory.

Classification and antidumping

NCM · technical opinion · defence

The right NCM code with a technical opinion behind it, plus a check on whether your product — and your specific plant — is named in an antidumping measure in force.

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Clearance execution

DUIMP · DU-E · LPCO

The clearance run by the licensed broker himself, not outsourced. Channel monitoring, same-day answers to Receita Federal demands, and an explanation of what happened in English.

Our own platform

A suspended tax is a deadline. Miss it and it comes back with a fine.

Every regime here runs on a clock: import balances, export commitments and expiry dates. Our Drawback platform tracks all of it per act and per company, so the benefit that made your quote competitive is still standing when the operation closes.

✓ Deadline alerts before they expire, per act and per company
✓ Import, domestic and export balances in real time
✓ The drawback ratio monitored against the 40% cap
✓ Multi-company, with automatic re-collection of tax IDs
✓ Data under Brazilian tax secrecy — restricted, auditable access

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Orvion Drawback · acts panel

Drawback ratio

31.4%

cap 40%

20250033690

Ind. Metalúrgica Aurora Ltda.

Active

Import95%

Domestic69%

Export88%

expires 30/08/2026 · 23 days left

20250026660

Componentes Vega S.A.

Critical

expires 18/08/2026 · 11 days left · 0% exported

Work delivered

Getting used machinery into Brazil, licence approved.

Real cases handled by the founder. The focus here is similarity — bringing used equipment into the country with the import licence granted. No client names.

Case 1 · Used cutting machine

Used equipmentSimilarity licence approved

Used equipment imported from abroad. We filed the similarity-based import licence and got it approved — even after it went through public consultation. Full technical dossier, machine released.

Case 2 · Used machining centre

Used equipmentSimilarity licence approved

Technical justification and a detailed comparison to sustain the similarity claim. Licence approved and the import completed with no incident with Brazilian customs.

Why Orvion

You don’t need an agency. You need someone in Brazil who answers for it.

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A licensed broker, in person

You deal with the person who signs the declaration — not a call centre, not another layer of intermediaries taking a cut.

The numbers first, the price after

We put the taxes, the licences and the timeline in front of you, then you decide whether the shipment makes sense. The 72-hour analysis is free of commitment.

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Structure, not just paperwork

Most brokers file what you send them. We tell you what to change before you ship, while changing it still costs nothing.

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Our own technology

Deadlines and balances tracked by software we built, not by a spreadsheet and someone’s memory.

Where the name comes from

ORVION = Orbis · Vision · On

OROrbis

Global reach

International routes, international clients. We work where the trade actually moves.

VIVision

Seeing it early

Spotting the problem before the cargo does.

ONOn

Action

Online, present, answering the same day.

Global presence. Vision for the future. Connected execution.

Send one product and one shipment.

Give us the product, the HS code and the rough value of a single shipment. We’ll come back with the landed cost in Brazil, the licences it triggers and the regime it can enter under. In English, at no cost, before you quote your customer.

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✉ contato@orvionconsulting.com ◎ @orvioncon🌐 orvionconsulting.com

Brazil isn’t a hard market. It’s an unexplained one.

Your goods can enter Brazil with the taxes suspended.

No Brazilian equivalent? The import duty can drop to zero.

The decisions that set your cost are made before the bill of lading.