BR · Origin
Source from
Brazil.
Brazil's textile and fashion sector employs 1.5 million people and produces 10 billion garments annually. The Sao Paulo state, centered on Americana, Ibitinga, and Brusque, is a vertically integrated hub from yarn spinning to finished garment. BCI cotton, GOTS organic certification, and EUDR-exempt materials make Brazil the low-complexity entry point for EU buyers.
The largest integrated textile base in the Americas
Why here
What the origin
is actually good at.
South America's largest textile exporter. Each line below is a property of the place — its materials, its registries, its trade position — not a promise about us.
EUDR-exempt materials — no geo-polygon submission required for cotton and synthetic fibers
Vertically integrated supply chain from yarn to finished garment in a single hub
BCI and GOTS certified cotton available at competitive FOB prices
ABRAPA bale-level blockchain traceability satisfies US CBP UFLPA evidentiary requirements
EU-Mercosur FTA: 12% MFN tariff phasing to 0% by 2035 — immediate savings in 2026
Source · lib/marketing/countries.ts (Brazil) — origin properties, tariff lines, ports and transit ranges.
Where it is made
The towns,
not the country.
5 production centres, and the port they leave through — Santos. Sourcing from Brazil means sourcing from these places: a mill in the wrong state is a different lead time, a different cluster and a different set of certifications. The map beside this holds each one at its real coordinates.
Borders are Natural Earth 1:50m admin-0 geometry; town positions are their real coordinates. Centres are the hubs named in lib/marketing/countries.ts and the cluster each belongs to — not a map of our suppliers, who are named inside the platform once verified.
Scale
One cluster,
every stage.
Yarn to garment, inside one cluster
Four stages, one industrial cluster: fewer handoffs, one set of certifications, and enough capacity to absorb a large EU programme. ABRAPA bale-level traceability then links each cotton lot back to its farm of origin — the evidentiary chain US CBP expects under UFLPA.
Source Cluster stages and ABRAPA bale traceability as described in lib/marketing/countries.ts (Brazil, whySources).
The lane
Santos to Rotterdam.
Transit is a range, not a date — schedules move, and a lane that is quoted as a single number is a lane someone is guessing about. Brazil's spread is drawn below against the other three origins on the corridor.
→ Rotterdam · bands are the carrier-stated transit range
Source Transit ranges and origin ports from lib/marketing/countries.ts; all lanes measured to Rotterdam.
At the border
What you pay,
and for how long.
The preferential rate is not automatic: it is a claim you make at import, and it holds only if the good was made in territory under the rules of origin. Merco computes the applicable rate at order time and produces the proof.
EU–Mercosur phase-out, HS 61/62 apparel · MFN baseline 12% → preferential 0% by 2035.
Source HS lines and rates from lib/marketing/countries.ts (Brazil); MFN baseline from EU TARIC; EU–Mercosur Agreement staging.
The rules
What EUDR asks
of this origin.
Scope is decided by the material, not the country. Where the material is in scope, the work is geolocation and a filed statement; where it is out of scope, no amount of paperwork is required and we will not sell you any.
Cotton and synthetic fibers are outside EUDR scope. No geo-polygon submission required for Brazilian textile suppliers.
Source · Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EUDR), Art. 2 scope and Art. 4 operator obligations.
What it makes
Categories,
and what they carry.
The categories Brazil exports at scale, and the certifications its mills hold. We do not publish factory names: a match is only worth anything after the mill has passed verification, and you see it inside the platform, with the evidence attached.
Categories
Certifications available
Certifications are the schemes mills in this origin operate under; a specific supplier's certificates are verified against the issuing registry before they appear on a listing.
Open Brazil.
Tell us what you buy and where it lands. We come back with mills in Brazil that can make it and the paperwork position for each one — or we tell you the origin is wrong for the product. No fee to join.