Recently Brazil general strike continued. A lot of ports in Brazil are suffered and the commodity is stranded in port and cannot be sent to the importers.
Brazil has a very large market of testing machine and laboratory equipment and imported a lot from the manufacturer in China every year. The most popular products are compression testing machines, universal testing machines, and other kinds of concreting testing machines.
Brazil customs officials recently announced the alliance, the largest container port Santos in South America, began implementing the “zero action” on October 16th, if the demands are not met, from November 1st onwards will be the implementation of a comprehensive strike.
The strike is said to have been caused by the Brazil government’s failure to fulfil its promise to raise wages earlier this year.
Between September and January 2017, and between May and June this year, shippers suffered several strikes and slowed over the past 14 months.
Santos customs insiders say customs officials may clean up about 30% of all container shipments. In addition to extending the clearance time, the expensive storage costs will increase during the extension of customs clearance time.
Santos, a container terminal manager, says the action has been identified as the biggest accident before Christmas. Many exporters are eager to order goods as air cargo, to ensure the timely implementation of the contract commitments.
Jose Roque, executive president of the St Paul and Santos Shipping Association, warned that slowing economic growth and strikes could threaten Brazil’s economic recovery and make Brazil’s economic recovery more fragile.
Brazil General Strike Continued
On April 25th, the special committee of the house of representatives in Brazil passed the labour system reform scheme proposed by the government with 27 votes and 10 votes, which will be voted at the plenary session of the house of representatives.
However, these reforms have been opposed by the majority of workers. In the past few months, demonstrations and strikes against the reform of the government pension system and labour system reform have been increasing gradually. On May 1st, the National Federation of trade unions (CUT) in Brazil planned to hold protests on Paulista street in St Paul.
In April 28th, a large-scale anti-reform strike broke out in Brazil. Many unions in Brazil say the strike is likely to be a unified strike, and many unions and organizations have joined the strike. Including public transport, postal industry and banking industries, Rio De Janeiro, Bahia, Minas Gerais state of Amazonas, Espirito Santo unions have announced to join the strike.
The biggest strike in Brazil took place in 1989, when more than 70% of the country’s economic activity stopped working.
Main ports in Brazil
- SANTOS
- PARANAGUA
- RIODEJANEIRO
- ITAJAI
- SALVADOR
- VITORIA
- SUAPE
- PECEM
- RIOGRANDE
- SAOFRANCISCODOSUL
- NAVEGANTES
Attention when export to Brazil
A. exports of goods in Brazil before shipment to the port of destination application in advance free time: Brazil customs clearance time is generally longer, and the owner in Brazil port demurrage is very expensive. Therefore, before shipment, we must apply to the shipping company for the free time of the port of destination in advance, and generally apply for 21-30 days free time, otherwise it will produce high demurrage charges at the port of destination.
B. export goods with Brazilian NOR box (cold dry generation container, use frozen cabinet to replace the dry cabinet): some shipping companies will provide a NOR box (cold dry generation container) service, although the NOR box will be relatively cheap in the shipping fee, but the freezer at the port of destination free period will be much shorter than the ordinary box free time, apply for shipping companies generally do not accept the freezer; the other freezer in the Brazilian region of demurrage is much higher than ordinary charging box, CSAV shipping company as an example, the freezer in the Brazilian generally only 4 days free time, and demurrage was as high as USD170-260 every day.
C. exports of goods in Brazil to display the freight on the bill of lading, customs clearance and Brazil do not accept: Chinese electricity bills of lading exports of goods in Brazil customs in Brazil, is the only original bill of lading customs clearance, Brazil customs will not accept “SeaWaybill”, not to accept the surrendered bill of lading bill of lading must also show freight, because the Brazil local customs, all goods imported into Brazil must pay the freight tax, electricity bills of lading will be Brazil customs as tax evasion. The other South American countries are almost forbidden to do when shipping.
D. exports of goods in Brazil need to provide CNPJ/CPF/NCM: Brazil customs clearance to display CNJP/CPF/NCM on the bill of lading, CNPJ and CPF in Brazil, and personal identity number is the number; NCM: This is the goods identification number, equivalent to our HS encoding, to be displayed on the manifest on.
E. Partial bill of lading required for export to Brazil:
1. the Brazil customs requires that all fees (including prepaid and payable fees) and their details must be clearly listed on the bill of lading / “Freightasperagreement” and other words are not allowed.
2. bill of lading (SEAWAYBILL), Dummy call on the bill of lading, bill of lading, negotiable bill of lading (toorder) is not acceptable.
3. to ensure container number, the accuracy of seal number is very important.
4. can only correctly display weight by meter system
5. the description of the goods must correctly reflect the shipment (including the correct number of packages/packages)
6. import bill of lading must be filled with NCM (Harmonizedcargocode) at least 4 digit number, both started (FAK and GDSM does not allow for the description of the goods)
7. all bills of lading must be filled with CNJP (registered number of Brazil company in China) or CPF (if any personal property)
8. do not accept CFS goods
9. the customer information on the bill of lading must be true and complete (company name, detailed address, telephone, fax, etc.), the consignee / notify address must be in Brazil, the consignee outside the Brazil is not accepted.
10. in the goods description office is not allowed to fill in the value of the declaration, please ensure that in accordance with the new regulations for all the goods shipped to Brazil ready to relevant documents. Because once the offset is exceeded, the bill of lading data will be difficult to change.
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