This is the country-specific page for Brazil. The underlying rule is the global wood-packaging standard; see ISPM 15 for what it is, the treatments and the IPPC mark. The baseline: solid-wood packaging (pallets, crates, dunnage) must be heat-treated (HT) or fumigated (MB) and carry the IPPC mark. Brazil takes that baseline and enforces it harder than almost anywhere, which is why it gets its own page. Nexport Logistics makes sure your packaging and your documents meet the Brazilian rules before the box ships, in the Nexportal platform.
What Brazil adds on top of ISPM 15
Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture (MAPA) layers extra enforcement onto the global standard:
- ISPM 15 must be confirmed on every Bill of Lading. A wood-packaging declaration has to state that any wood packaging is ISPM 15-compliant, or that the shipment contains none. This is the part shippers most often miss.
- It applies in all directions: cargo imported into, exported from, and transiting or transshipped through Brazil. Not only imports.
- A treatment or fumigation certificate may need to accompany the shipment.
The exact wording on the Bill of Lading
Brazil wants the wooden-packing status declared in the B/L comments, and it must be one of these four wordings (the exact string can differ slightly per carrier; follow the line's shipping instructions):
Wooden Packing : not applicable(no wood or wooden packing in the shipment)Wooden Packing : Treated and Certified(treated and/or fumigated, with a certificate)Wooden Packing : Not-Treated and Not-Certified(not treated or fumigated, no certificate)Wooden Packing : Processed(packaging and supports made entirely of processed wood: plywood, particle board, laminated or veneer sheets bonded with glue, heat or pressure)
Pick the line that is true for your shipment and state it in the B/L comments with the shipping instructions. The text is fixed. Paraphrasing risks the Bill of Lading being rejected.
What non-compliance costs in Brazil
If the wood doesn't comply, the freight is retained, and the non-compliant wood must be re-exported as a new shipment back to origin, at the consignee's expense, with substantial delays, interim storage and extra costs on top. In practice one unmarked pallet, or a missing declaration on the B/L, can hold up a whole consignment. Brazil does not wave these through.
How Nexport Logistics handles it
We confirm your WPM is ISPM 15-treated and IPPC-marked, that any treatment certificate is in order, and (the Brazil-critical step) that the wood-packaging declaration is correctly stated on the Bill of Lading, HBL and MBL both. So your container clears instead of being held over a pallet. It runs alongside your Customs, import certificates and B/L in Nexportal.
Shipping to, from or through Brazil? Email info@nexportlogistics.nl.
Standard: ISPM 15 · official: IPPC — ISPM 15; Brazil enforcement by MAPA (Ministério da Agricultura). Related: Ispm15 · Import Certificates · Customs · Shipping Documents