Brazil moves the legacy-DI cut-off for bulk imports to 11 October

Brazil has given importers handling operations declared with the ‘Granel’ packaging type until 11 October 2026 to leave the legacy DI route. Siscomex Import Notice 092/2026 moved the planned shutdown from 31 August, explicitly to allow more time for parties to adapt to the Duimp process. In practical terms, the old route remains available for this category through 10 October; the extension should be treated as a final preparation window rather than permission to postpone the project.

The scope matters. This is not a blanket delay to Brazil's migration from the Declaração de Importação to the Declaração Única de Importação. It concerns operations classified with the ‘Granel’ packaging type, while other transactions continue to follow their own dates, tax treatments, licensing conditions and listed exceptions. The official schedule is phased and can change after system validation, so an importer should test the exact operation in the Siscomex DI shutdown simulator rather than infer the answer from a product description alone.

Once Duimp is mandatory for an operation, filing through DI is no longer a safe fallback. Receita Federal's migration guidance says a DI registered where Duimp is compulsory is subject to cancellation by customs. The readiness check therefore needs to cover more than access to a new declaration screen: the importer and broker should confirm product and foreign-operator records, NCM and item attributes, tax treatment, any LPCO or administrative control, cargo data, internal approvals and the hand-off between their ERP, broker and Portal Único.

For an EU supplier, most of the system work sits with the Brazilian importer, but the underlying data often starts in Europe. Product descriptions, producer and exporter identities, technical specifications, commercial documents and consistent shipment data should reach the importer early enough to load and test them. Teams handling bulk ingredients, feedstocks or chemicals should also confirm that ‘Granel’ is in fact the packaging classification used for the operation; the notice does not create a sector-wide exemption for everything informally described as bulk cargo.

The useful response is a controlled test before the next shipment: run the official simulator, create or review the Duimp master data, complete any licensing route, test the systems integration and set a cut-over owner and date ahead of 11 October. That leaves time to resolve a data mismatch without discovering it at customs. If the classification, importer setup or licensing sequence is still uncertain, an Opportunity Scan can map the EU-to-Brazil route and show which parts need evidence before the legacy DI window closes.