Guides
What each Brazilian compliance source actually covers, what a finding means, and — the part most summaries skip — what it does not prove. Written for the buyer doing the checking.
What the EUDR is, and who it reaches
The EU Deforestation Regulation, what it requires from anyone placing cattle, timber, coffee, soy, cocoa, palm oil or rubber on the EU market, and how that requirement travels down to individual Brazilian suppliers.
The Lista Suja: Brazil’s forced-labour registry
How Brazil’s register of employers found to have subjected workers to conditions analogous to slavery works, and why it matters to anyone buying from Brazilian suppliers.
The CAR: what Brazil’s rural environmental registry does and does not tell you
What the Cadastro Ambiental Rural records about a rural property, and why its status alone is not evidence of environmental compliance.
Lacey Act: the species field that stops timber shipments
What the US Lacey Act requires for timber and derived products from Brazil, and the single missing data point that most often causes a hold at the border.
Cattle traceability: why the transit permit alone is not enough
How Brazil’s Animal Transit Permit (GTA) and the electronic invoice (NF-e) complement each other, and the known laundering gap that auditing only one of them leaves open.
CEIS and CNEP: Brazil’s federal sanctions registers
What the CEIS and CNEP registers published on Brazil’s Transparency Portal record, and how an active sanction becomes a risk signal in supplier due diligence.
How to check a Brazilian supplier against IBAMA embargoes
The real process of checking a supplier for IBAMA environmental embargoes, what a positive result contains, and why checking once has almost no value.
Brazilian supplier due diligence: the full source checklist
The fourteen public sources that make up a real due diligence process for a Brazilian supplier, grouped by risk area, with what each one covers and misses.
EUDR deadlines, and what to prepare before them
How the EUDR implementation timeline works, why the dates have moved before, and what is worth preparing regardless of the exact date in force.
How to check a supplier against the Lista Suja
The full manual process for checking Brazil’s forced-labour register, and why a single check does not solve the problem the register exists to prevent.
LkSG: what Germany’s supply chain law requires of Brazilian suppliers
How Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act reaches Brazilian suppliers who have no direct relationship with German law, and what buyers end up asking for.
By sector
Which sources matter for which commodity, and where each chain’s specific weak point sits.