O Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) presented to representatives of the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA) O Electronic System for Monitoring Barriers to Exports (SEM Barriers).
According to the CNA, the system acts as a tool to deal with tariff and non-tariff barriers that make it difficult for Brazilian exports to access international markets. It is a channel for dialogue between government, associations, private entities and exporting companies.
“SEM Barreiras was created to organize the government action in the identification and measurement of measures that impact our exports. It was born to facilitate and systematize all the demands that come from the private sector, “André Favero, the coordinator of MDIC’s International Negotiations Department, told CNA.
According to him, non-tariff barriers, which are measures that prevent the entry of products in a given country, have an additional cost of up to 20% in Brazilian exports and have impacted the agricultural sector.
“Sometimes we have a demand that can reach several companies in the same industry. So for the government it is important to have the exact notion of how big this impact is to even know what the measure or level of interlocution it will take. “