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Structure

SAIN's structure is formed by the main office and seven General-Coordination offices:

  • General Coordination of Trade Policy - COPOL
  • General Coordination for Financial Matters – COAFI
  • General Coordination of Trade Integration – COINT
  • General Coordination of Export Credit Insurance – COSEC
  • General Coordination of International Economic Dialogue – CDINT
  • General Coordination of Policies for International Institutions – CGPIN
  • General Coordination for Credit Recovery – CORE

It is SAIN's responsibility to supervise all coordinations, administrative projects, and directly advise the Minister of Finance. In addition, the office develops other activities:

  • Directly advise and assist the Secretary;
  • Provide the Secretary information necessary for decision making;
  • Coordinate all of the Secretary’s internal and external relationship activity;
  • Promote the dissemination of the Secretary’s official acts;
  • Distribute files and documents submitted to the Secretariat;
  • Plan, coordinate and monitor the preparation of the budget proposal, and multi-annual plans of work and the Secretary’s annual management report; and
  • Plan, coordinate and monitor implementation of activities related to management of human and material resources of the Secretariat.

GENERAL COORDINATION OF TRADE POLICY - COPOL

The General Coordination of Trade Policy (COPOL) operates in the areas of coordination, technical advice and representing SAIN in the Ministry of Finance in the following international areas of Brazilian government issues:

This activity includes participation in national forums, such as those under the Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX), and international, such as those within the Southern Common Market (MERCOSUR), the Union of South American Nations (UNASUR), the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Economic Cooperation and Development Organization (OECD).

COPOL’s work involves:

  • Advisory of the representatives of the MF under CAMEX, in matters within their competence;
  • Analysis and preparation of proposals for trade negotiations;
  • Preparation, organization and participation in national and international meetings;
  • Monitoring the economic situation nationally and internationally, with regard to issues related to the General Coordinator.

Themes and WTO agreements to which Brazil is a signatory, in several areas of COPOL’s activity

By means of Decree No. 1355, in December 30, 1994, Brazil, incorporated into its legal system the results of the Uruguay Round Trade Negotiations (1986-1994). Therefore joining the Multilateral Agreements (Attachments 1, 2 and 3 Final Act of the Uruguay Round), mandatory membership.

These attachments address the following issues:

  • Multilateral Agreements on Trade in Goods (Attachment 1A);
  • General agreement on Trade in Services – GATS (Attachment 1B);
  • Agreement on Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights Trade-Related – TRIPS (Attachment 1C);
  • Understanding on Rules and Procedures Governing the Settlement of Disputes (Attachment 2); and
  • Mechanism for Trade Policy Review (Attachment 3).

The Plurilateral Uruguayan Round (Attachment 4 Final Act of the Uruguay Round) is membership optional. Of the four plurilateral agreements- civil aircraft trade in, government purchases, international agreement on dairy products, international agreement on beef - Brazil only joined this last, whose term ended in 1997.

Below are the links to the Presidential Palace with the Decree No. 1355 and the link to the Uruguayan Round Final Act, with its attachments.

GENERAL COORDINATION OF FINANCIAL MATTERS - COAFI

In the General Coordination of Financial Affairs - COAFI performs the duties on the technical and operational support necessary for the functioning of the Committee of the Export Finance and Guarantee - COFIG, whose Secretariat is exercised by the Executive Secretary of International Affairs of the Ministry of Finance.

Among these duties, it is up to COAFI to plan, coordinate and supervise the meetings of the Technical Advisory Group - GAT, performed prior to each regular COFIG meeting, aiming at the analysis and discussion of issues and transactions to be submitted for examination and deliberation of the Committee.

Moreover, assigned to COAFI is the coordination of activities of the Working Groups established under COFIG, which is under the responsibility of the Executive Secretariat of the Committee.

Also assigned to COAFI, is to advise the Secretary of the International Affairs in exercising the Executive Secretary post for COFIG, as well as in making decisions concerning the granting through the Union, exports of financial assistance, with funds from the Financing Program exports - PROEX.
COAFI is also to support the Secretary for International Affairs in making decisions on whether to permit the preparation of projects or programs in the public sector, with financial support from external sources, within the External Financing Commission - COFIEX.

Moreover, it is assigned to COAFI to examine the claims of interest to public sector entities with financial support from external sources, to be submitted to the Technical Group COFIEX - GTEC and the determination of COFIEX.

COORDINATION OF GENERAL TRADE INTEGRATION- COINT

The General Coordination of Trade Integration (COINT) has the ability, among other things, to represent SAIN in interministerial and international forums that discuss issues related to market access in agricultural and non agricultural goods, highlighting:

  • Tariff Alterations (Import/Export Duty)
  • Facilitation of trade and non-tariff barriers;

Issues of trade policy on the participation of Brazil in Mercosul; and

  • Issues of financial and macroeconomic coordination, relating to the country's participation in Mercosul.

These areas are subdivided into several issues of a more specific nature, which may be recurring or ad hoc and usually are discussed in national forums (interministerial) connected to the Foreign Trade Chamber (CAMEX) or in international forums related to Mercosul or the World Trade, the latter with coordination of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. This work primarily involves the participation in technical meetings and the preparation of notes and opinions.

Fóruns de atuação da COINT

The Board of Trade - (CAMEX), of the Governing Council, aims at the formulation, adoption, implementation and coordination of policies and activities relating to foreign trade in goods and services, including tourism. CAMEX is formed by several committees: being the Executive Management - GECEX, and the Council of Ministers and their higher instances. The General Coordination of Trade Integration (COINT) advises the Secretary of International Affairs and Minister of Finance in these forums.

By the rules of Mercosul, Brazil may keep a list of up to 100 products with rates set by default the Common External Tariff of the block (TEC) - the so called List of Exceptions to the TEC. Each State Party shall have a list of exceptions, but the amount of each product varies (Paraguay and Uruguay are entitled to longer lists). Initially conceived as a mechanism to allow an adaptation of sensitive products to the TEC, the lists of exceptions should have been extinct in 2000 but have been subsequently extended and, according to a recent decision of the Common Market Council, it will run until 2011 for Brazil and Argentina, and until 2015 for Paraguay and Uruguay.
The Brazilian Exception List is updated every six months, and in every update, up to 20% of its items can be replaced. Currently in the list there are several Brazilian medications, fertilizers, pesticides, some types of steel - all with reduced rates - and many agricultural products (like milk, cheese, wine and rice) with increased rates.

The resolution of the Mercosul Common Market Group 69/00 provides that in cases of exceptional and temporary shortages, the State party affected may ask the other members of Mercosul for a temporary reduction in import tax rate for the missing product. This tariff reduction can be 2% or 0%, has a maximum duration of 12 months (renewable for the same period) and is authorized only for a certain quota. Requests are presented in Mercosul and depend on the approval of the other States Parties. Internally, the claims are reviewed by the Technical Group to follow up on Resolution 69/00 (GTAR-69), of which COINT participates and whose Executive Secretariat is exercised by the Secretariat for Economic Monitoring of the Ministry of Finance.

The COINT participates within MERCOSUL, of the Committee on Tariffs, Nomenclature and Classification of Goods (CT-1), Trade Commission of MERCOSUL (CCM), the Common Market Group (GMC) and the Common Market Council (CMC ), Expert Group from Ad-Hoc Structural Convergence Mercosul Fund (GAHE-FOCEM) and the Macroeconomic Monitoring Mercosul Group (GMM)

• Technical Committee no. 01 (Tariffs, Nomenclature and Classification of Goods)

It is under the Technical Committee n º 1 of the Mercosul, which analyzes the requests coming from the government or the private sector - for descriptions and rates of change (TEC) permanently. The SAIN, through COINT, participates in the preparatory meetings in the National Section of the CT-1 (inter-ministerial meetings where it's decided what position the Brazilian government claims about the change in (TEC) and the meetings of the Committee itself (where the delegations of the States Parties of MERCOSUR rule on these claims).

In this forum, COINT represents the SAIN on several issues, especially the administration of the Common External Tariff, the discussion of Special Import Regimes, regulation of CMC Decision 54/2004 which deals with the elimination of double collection Common External Tariff (TEC) and the Income Distribution Customs, and analysis of studies financed by the IDB on ad hoc issues of interest to the Mercosul.

In this group, the performance of COINT focuses on monitoring the issues under discussion in the MTC, which were elevated to the GMC for approval at the political level.

In this context, COINT acts in providing technical inputs for the work of the Secretary for International Affairs and the Minister of Finance.

In recent years, Mercosul has considerably extended its range of fronts with a view to negotiating bilateral trade agreements or bi-regional. The SAIN / MF has sought to actively participate in interministerial coordination meetings for these negotiations, referring to the technical discussions, writing reports and subsidizing the MRE with comments for the negotiating texts.
Among the highlights of Mercosul's foreign agenda, there is the closing of the following agreements:


* Mercosul-India
* MERCOSUL - Israel
* MERCOSUL - SACU
* MERCOSUL - Egypt

Negotiations below are also under way and are accompanied by COINT:

* MERCOSUL - European Union
* MERCOSUL - Jordan
* MERCOSUL - Morocco
* MERCOSUL - Turkey

The COINT represents the MF in FOCEM follow-up meetings, which analyzes the operations that rely on funding from the Multilateral Fund for projects to reduce structural asymmetries in the block. The Fund consists of disbursements of the four countries, in different proportions referred to participation in the region's GDP. FOCEM's Donations are directed exclusively to projects undertaken by public entities, programs pre-defined by the Fund Regulation.

COINT represents SAIN in GMM meetings , in partnership with the National Treasury Secretariat and Central Bank of Brazil. The GMM is a group composed of officials from the Ministries of Economy / Finance and Central Banks of the countries of Mercosul, Venezuela, Bolivia and Chile. The work of the GMM are meant to promote macroeconomic convergence among the countries of the region and have highlighted this aspect of the actions directed to the production and dissemination of macroeconomic statistics harmonized, and the search for convergence between indicators of income tax, public debt and inflation.

• Mercosul Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises
COINT represented the Ministry of Finance in the Ad-Hoc Group for drafting the Statute of the Guarantee Fund for Small and Medium Enterprises Mercosur, created to set guidelines that guide the Fund Regulation to issue guarantees to SMEs in the Mercosul. Currently, COINT, in partnership with MRE and other Federal Government agencies, actively participates in the work of preparation of said Regulation.

In the WTO, the COINT participates internally of the negotiating process (in Brazil) in NAMA (negotiations in the area of industrial goods). To do so, participate in government meetings in Brazil for the internal coordination of the Brazilian position.

General Coordination of Export Credit Insurance - COSEC

The General Coordination of Export Credit Insurance - COSEC, is responsible for exercising activities related to the granting a coverage guarantee for commercial risks and political and extraordinary risks assumed under the Export Credit Insurance, transferred from IRB Brazil Reinsurance SA to the Ministry of Finance, through the Law No. 6704 of 26.10.1979, amended by Law No. 11,281, of 20.02.2006.

The fulfillment of the obligations provided for in Law No. 6.704/1979 is currently regulated by Ordinance No. MF 286 of 02.12.2008, by which the Minister of Finance delegates to the Secretary for International Affairs the power to authorize the granting of a guarantee of commercial risks and political and extraordinary risks assumed under the ESA.

The granting of coverage guarantee by the Union through the Insurance of Export Credit under the terms of the Guarantee Fund for Export - FGE, which has an accounting nature and is linked to the Ministry of Finance, was made possible through the publication of Law No. 9818, of 23.08.1999.
It is therefore up to COSEC to advise the Secretary for International Affairs in decision making within the Committee of the Export Finance and Guarantee - COFIG on the granting of guarantees to Brazilian exports of the Union, under the terms of FGE.

It is also up to COSEC the analysis and preparation of technical notes in order to support the Secretary of International Affairs for promise signature of coverage guarantee, warranty coverage and compensation claims relating to export credit insurance.

Moreover, COSEC is assigned to: hire an institution authorized to operate the SCE for the implementation of all services related to it, including analysis, monitoring, and management of operations to provide collateral and debt recovery victims, as well as secure the instruments relating to that contract.

General Coordination of International Economic Dialogue - CDINT

General Coordination of International Economic Dialogue has as main tasks: to coordinate and monitor the participation of Brazil in economic policy dialogue with other countries: bilaterally and / or formal or informal groups: in particular the G7 / 8, G-20, BRIC, OECD and CPLP, and monitor and report relevant aspects of international economic and strategic economies. Additionally, the Coordination performs activities related to the accession of Brazil to organizations or international standards.

General Coordination of International Economic Dialogue:

• Coordinate and perform activities related to Brazil's participation in dialogues of economic and financial matters with other countries: bilaterally or in groups, formal or informal;

• Perform studies and technical advice on issues of international economic and foreign economic policy;

• Monitor and report relevant aspects of international economic and strategic economies; and

• Perform activities related to the accession of Brazil to international organizations or standards.

General Coordination of Policies for International Institutions - CGPIN

The General Coordination of Policies for International Institutions (CGPIN) is responsible for:

• Monitor and evaluate policies, guidelines and actions of global economic organizations and international financial institutions that the Ministry of Finance represents in the country, especially the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank Group; and

• Coordinate and carry out activities of technical support, giving advice and providing support for the participation of representatives of the Ministry of Finance in forums, meetings and missions of both the IMF and World Bank and other international organizations and groups dealing with economic, financial and development issues.

The CGPIN is composed of two coordinations:

• Coordination of International Monetary and Financial Affairs, which manages the relationship between the Brazilian Government and the International Monetary Fund, providing technical analysis on issues such as governance reforms, quotas and voice, evaluation of Article IV, macroeconomic supervision (surveillance), review and improvement of lending instruments, studies on the prevention of crises, purchases of bonds and notes, the Executive Board decisions and resolutions of the Board of Governors of the IMF, and other matters relating to the institution.

• Coordination of International Development and Sustainability, which is responsible for analyzing and monitoring issues such as development finance, negotiations for capital replenishment of the International Development Association (IDA), review of analytical studies, (AAA), discussion of the Country Partnership Strategy , governance and operation of the Climate Investment Funds, the operations of the international Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the Executive Board decisions and resolutions of the Board of Governors of the World Bank and others relating to the Bank and the international development agenda.

General Coordination of Credit Recovery - COREC

General Coordination of Credit Recovery - COREC performs the duties incumbent on the technical and operational support necessary for the functioning of the Evaluation Committee to the Foreign Claims - COMACE, whose Secretariat is exercised by the Executive Secretary of International Affairs of the Ministry of Finance.

Among these duties, the COREC plans and coordinates Brazilian credits negotiations abroad, including those carried out under the Paris Club.
COREC, advises the Secretary for International Affairs in exercising the part of Executive Secretary of COMACE as well as in making decisions regarding the planning and monitoring of policy evaluation, negotiation and Brazilians debt abroad.

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