The Brazilian ministries' August 31 note on the USTR Section 301 talks says technical meetings will continue in the coming weeks. It does not alter the Brazil Secex USTR tariff drawback extension under Siscomex Export Notice 024/2026. A Brazilian export compliance manager now has one immediate decision. Identify each potentially eligible concession act and build the Siscomex drawback extension dossier from the record that existed on August 25.
The extension begins with a not-closed concession act
The Brazil Presidency's USTR tariff response under Provisional Measure No. 1,386 authorizes an exceptional extension of one additional year for affected drawback suspension commitments. The act must already have received the ordinary extension available from the competent authority. Its final suspension date must fall between July 22 and December 31, 2026, and the authority must not have completed the act's closure review when the measure took effect. The additional year is counted from the act's final validity date after ordinary extensions.
Secex's implementing notice translates those conditions into a working population of integrated drawback suspension acts that have not been closed and have an otherwise non-extendable expiry within that date window.
The extension is not automatic. A qualifying act may receive one additional year only after the company submits a signed request with supporting documents.
Neither MP 1,386, Portaria Secex 536, nor Siscomex Export Notice 024/2026 states a submission deadline. The act's expiry date should not be presented as one. Applicants should confirm timing directly with Coexp or Decex.
This Brazilian filing track is separate from the U.S. implementation steps described in the Traverse Analysis on USTR's two Brazil Section 301 actions. A future U.S. change still needs its own operative record. The drawback extension depends on Secex's review of the Brazilian act and dossier.
August 25 fixes the eligible export record
The concession act must have contained at least one affected export commitment on August 25. For a common act, that means an export product recorded in the act. For an intermediate act, it means the final good to be exported through the linked industrial-export chain.
The product must correspond to an item that was not exempt from the additional U.S. tariffs under the annexes to the July 15 and July 23 presidential memoranda. Secex says the match is made with the six-digit Harmonized System classification and the description in the U.S. annex.
This is a record-date test as well as a product test. Adding a customer lead or export item after August 25 cannot recreate the act contents or dated commercial intention that the notice asks Secex to review.
Common acts need dated sales evidence
The filing starts with a letter to Coexp within Decex bearing an advanced or qualified electronic signature under Law 14,063 and a reply email. It goes through the Siscomex Electronic Document Attachment Module as a `Dossiê de Drawback`, with `Prorrogação` entered in the description field.
For each common act, the letter lists the affected export-product item. For an intermediate act, it instead lists the item corresponding to the intermediate product. The separate eligibility record ties that act to the tariff-affected final good.
For a common act, the dossier needs a document dated before August 25 showing commercial intent to sell the identified merchandise to the United States. Secex accepts a record such as an offer, request, proposal, or negotiation when it identifies the product, potential U.S. buyer, and potential exporter.
Extra proof applies in narrower cases. When a conditional exemption for civil-aircraft or pharmaceutical use applies, the dossier must include a declaration that the intended product was not for that exempt use. A sale intended to pass through a trading company must include the required pre-August 25 contract or other evidence of the planned sale.
An intermediate manufacturer cannot rely only on its own intention to sell a component. The dossier must connect that component to the final export product and the industrial exporter.
The required chain includes pre-August 25 evidence that the industrial exporter intended to sell the final product to the United States. It also includes either a contract dated before August 25 between the drawback beneficiary and the industrial exporter, or a copy of the intermediate-product sales invoice whose data were recorded in the concession act. The notice does not add a separate pre-August 25 date condition to the invoice alternative.
When the stated condition applies, the dossier must include the corresponding end-use declaration or trading-company documents. The final-product intent document and any contract alternative must predate August 25. The invoice alternative must have its data recorded in the concession act. When the beneficiary cannot obtain a document from the industrial exporter or trading company, the Siscomex notice allows that company to provide the material directly to Coexp through the electronic attachment module. The gap still has to be filled because another company holds the record.
Brazil U.S. tariff drawback dossier gate as of September 1, 2026
| Gate | Common concession act | Intermediate concession act | Record that controls |
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| Act status | Not closed | Not closed | Siscomex act record |
| Prior extension | Ordinary extension already used | Ordinary extension already used | Concession act history |
| Closure review | Not completed when MP 1,386 took effect | Same | Competent authority or Siscomex status |
| Expiry window | Non-extendable expiry from July 22 through December 31, 2026 | Same | Concession act |
| Affected item | At least one export product in the act on August 25 | At least one final export good linked to the act on August 25 | Act contents on August 25 |
| Letter item number | Affected export product | Intermediate product | Signed request letter |
| U.S. tariff match | Six-digit HS plus U.S. annex description | Same test for the final export good | July 15 and July 23 U.S. memorandum annexes |
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*This table maps the public eligibility and evidence gates in Siscomex Export Notice 024/2026. Secex review controls the result. A later tariff agreement does not itself approve the Brazilian dossier.*
The table should become the dossier index. Each row should point to the exact act field or dated document that supports it. Missing evidence then appears before submission instead of during Secex review.
The U.S. product test should also stay separate from the entry claim itself. The Siscomex notice uses the six-digit HS code and U.S. annex description to test the Brazilian extension request. It does not decide how a U.S. importer should report the Chapter 99 headings on an entry. The Traverse Analysis of USTR's Brazil Section 301 entry rules addresses that different record.
A tariff deal would change context, not the filing record
Brazil's trade ministry explanation of the drawback extension describes the measure as time for exporters to keep pursuing the U.S. market or redirect production elsewhere. That relief addresses an export commitment already disrupted by the U.S. measures.
A later U.S. rate cut or exemption could improve the commercial outlook. It would not rewrite the August 25 act contents, supply a missing dated sales record, or approve the Brazilian extension. Any change to those filing gates would need to come from Brazil through a revised legal or administrative record.
Recheck the dossier after a Secex decision or clarification, an amendment or replacement of MP 1,386 or Portaria Secex 536, or a U.S. action that changes the tariff annex used for product matching.