Brazilian supplier due diligence
You have an exporter, a price and a promising email exchange. What you do not have yet is a written answer to whether the company behind that email actually is what it says it is.
Who this is for
A buyer who already has a specific Brazilian exporter in front of them, from a search, a trade fair or an inbound offer, and wants a written check before sending money or signing a contract.
The problem this solves
A live CNPJ proves a company legally exists. It does not prove the goods exist, that the documents match the plant, or that the bank account in a payment instruction is the company's real one. Checking each of those separately, correctly, and in the right order is exactly what most buyers skip under deal pressure, and it is where the exposure sits: at the moment money moves toward a company nobody on your side has met (see verifying a Brazilian exporter).
What we do
- Confirm the CNPJ is active and check when the company was formed, through the Receita Federal.
- Confirm the company owes nothing to the tax authority, through the federal tax clearance certificate.
- Confirm Siscomex foreign-trade accreditation is in place.
- For meat and poultry, confirm the specific plant's SIF number is cleared to export to your destination market through the MAPA SIGSIF register, since a plant can be cleared for one market and not another.
- Check that the commodity-specific documents the exporter should be able to produce, for example an ICO certificate of origin for green coffee or a phytosanitary certificate for plant products, exist and match what was registered.
- Read the offer and contract terms against known scam patterns for the commodity, sugar most prominently, per the ICC's recorded pattern of below-market pricing paired with demands for an advance payment guarantee.
Deliverables
A written report: pass or fail on each of the four registry and document checks, the plant's specific export clearance status where applicable, and a flag on any term in the offer that matches a known scam pattern. Where a check cannot be completed from public sources, the report says so rather than guessing.
Timeline
Timeline is set in the written quote after the diagnostic call; longer where plant-level export clearance to your specific market needs cross-checking on the destination side.
What we need from you
The exporter's name and CNPJ if you have it, the commodity and specification, your destination country, and copies of whatever documents or offer terms the exporter has already sent you.
Price
Quoted per deal, after the free diagnostic call. Price depends on the commodity and on how many of the checks above the specific case requires. See pricing for what drives the number.
Who does the work
Run by our desk in Rio de Janeiro against the same public registries and commodity-specific sources described on verifying a Brazilian exporter. We are independent of the exporter being checked and do not take a position in the cargo, which is what lets us report a failed check plainly instead of softening it.
This page describes a paid service, not legal or financial advice on a specific transaction. A clean report is not a guarantee of contract performance.
Frequently asked questions
What exactly do you check?
Four things, matching the four questions on verifying a Brazilian exporter: whether the CNPJ is active and the company can legally trade, whether it holds foreign-trade accreditation in Siscomex, whether the specific commodity documents it should be able to produce actually exist and match its registrations, and, for meat and poultry, whether the specific plant is cleared to export to your destination country through the MAPA SIGSIF register. We also check the offer against known scam patterns, sugar in particular.
Does a clean due diligence report mean the deal is safe?
No, and we say so plainly. It means the company legally exists, is accredited, and the paperwork it should be able to produce checks out. It does not confirm the goods themselves match the contract, and it does not protect a payment sent to the wrong bank account. Those are separate steps: inspection coordination for the goods, and the payment-terms pages for protecting a transfer.
How long does a due diligence report take?
Timeline is set in the written quote after the diagnostic call. Plant-level export clearance for meat and poultry can take longer if the specific market approval needs confirming on both the Brazilian and the destination-country side.
Can you check a supplier I found on Alibaba or a trade fair?
Yes. The registry and document checks work the same way regardless of where you found the company. What we cannot do is verify a company's own website or catalogue claims beyond what the public record supports; we tell you plainly where the check stops.
Work the Brazilian side of your deal with us
We are based in Rio de Janeiro. Send us the specifics and we will tell you where things stand before you commit.