Shipping from Brazil to USA
Airlift USA ships full containers from Brazil to the USA, with licensed agent partners handling pickup and export in Brazil and its own New Jersey and Los Angeles offices handling the US side. Most of Airlift’s Brazil cargo loads at Vitória: plan on 36–60 days port to port to New York, 38–57 to Houston, 51–62 to Savannah and 31–64 to Port Everglades. Since July 2026 most Brazilian goods pay a 12.5% Section 301 forced-labor duty, and a separate 25% Section 301 duty with a long exemption list.
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The Brazil–USA lane at a glance
Airlift USA ships full containers (FCL) from Brazil to the USA, including flat-rack and open-top equipment for stone blocks and machinery. Most of Airlift’s Brazil cargo loads at Vitória in Espírito Santo, and Airlift’s own shipments from there took 36–60 days port to port to New York, 38–57 to Houston, 51–62 to Savannah and 31–64 to Port Everglades (P10–P90, sailings that departed July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026). Rio de Janeiro, Pecém and Santos also ship on this lane, and Baltimore and Los Angeles are served too; for those ports Airlift confirms the routing and transit per sailing.
Airlift has no office of its own in Brazil: licensed agent partners handle pickup, loading and the export declaration in SISCOMEX, and Airlift’s own offices in New Jersey and Los Angeles book the shipment, file the ISF, coordinate the US customs entry through licensed customs brokers and arrange delivery. Airlift USA is the trading name of AIRLIFT (U.S.A.), INC., in business since 1999 and an FMC-licensed NVOCC (FMC No. 016162). Typical cargo on the Brazil–USA lane is granite and other stone blocks and slabs, industrial raw materials, machinery and agricultural products.
Quick Facts: Brazil USA
Main ports (by Airlift shipment volume)
Vitória (UN/LOCODE BRVIX), the port of Espírito Santo, the center of Brazil’s granite and stone industry, loads most of Airlift’s Brazil–USA containers. Rio de Janeiro and Santos serve the quarries and the industrial southeast, and Pecém serves the northeast. On the US side, cargo arrives mainly at New York, Houston, Savannah and Port Everglades, with Baltimore and Los Angeles also served. Each Vitória port pair below has its own page with the planning range, port codes and a quote form.
Origin ports in Brazil:
Vitória, Rio de Janeiro, Pecém, Santos, Suape
Destination ports in the U.S.:
New York, Houston, Savannah, Port Everglades, Baltimore, Los Angeles
Transit times by port pair (Airlift data, P10–P90)
From Vitória
| Destination port | Transit planning range |
|---|---|
| New York | 36–60 days |
| Houston | 38–57 days |
| Savannah | 51–62 days |
| Port Everglades | 31–64 days |
Each range runs from the 10th to the 90th percentile (P10–P90) of Airlift’s own shipments from Vitória on that port pair, port to port, for sailings that departed between July 1, 2025, and June 30, 2026: 8 in 10 shipments arrived within it. These are planning ranges, not guaranteed transit times. For Rio de Janeiro, Pecém or Santos, and to confirm the current routing and sailing schedule, request a quote.
These ranges are port to port only. The glossary explains what a quoted transit time includes and which origin and destination legs it leaves out.
Guides for each port pair
Pick your load port and destination. Each page has the port codes, live sailings, the planning range (where the table above lists one) and a quote form with the route already filled in.
- From Vitória: Houston · New York · Port Everglades · Savannah
Shipping stone, machinery or raw materials from Brazil?
Send your cargo details and ready date, and we’ll quote your shipment.Questions about your cargo?
Tell us what you ship and how it is packed, and a specialist will contact you.What ships on this lane
Top 4 by container volume:
- Stone and granite blocks
- Industrial raw materials
- Machinery
- Agricultural products
Also handled:
Processed food, steel products and manufactured goods.
Customs and paperwork
Licensed agent partners handle export clearance in Brazil, and the US entry is filed through licensed customs brokers that Airlift coordinates. The duties below are the ones a Brazilian-origin entry carries as of early October 2026. They change by presidential action and Federal Register notice, so the rate that counts is the one for your HTS code on the day of entry: check it in the tariff simulator.
Export from Brazil
- Export declaration (DU-E, Declaração Única de Exportação) filed through SISCOMEX’s Portal Único, Brazil’s customs platform, and cleared by Receita Federal, Brazil’s federal revenue and customs service
- Commercial invoice and packing list whose values and descriptions match the US entry
- Wood packaging (crates, A-frames, dunnage) must carry the ISPM 15 mark
Import into the USA
- ISF filed at least 24 hours before the container is loaded in Brazil
- CBP customs entry backed by a continuous or single-transaction customs bond, filed through licensed customs brokers
- Stone and agricultural cargo may face additional inspections; food and agricultural products also need FDA or USDA filings
Duties on goods from Brazil (October 2026)
- Column 1 duty: the normal HTS rate for the product. Brazil has no free-trade agreement with the USA, and no GSP preference applies: the program lapsed on December 31, 2020.
- Section 301 forced-labor duty: an additional 12.5% on most products of Brazil since July 24, 2026 (a tariff on products of the listed economies generally, not only on goods made with forced labor; CBP calls it the Section 301 Forced Labor Import Duties). The products listed in U.S. note 52(b) of HTS Chapter 99, such as coffee and natural rubber, and goods under the Section 232 headings listed in 9903.05.90 are exempt; drones are not.
- Section 301 Brazil action: an additional 25% under heading 9903.05.01 on products of Brazil entered from July 22, 2026 (USTR, 91 FR 45516). It does not apply to Section 232 goods, civil aircraft and parts, listed articles for pharmaceutical use, donations, or the long list of exempt HTS lines, which includes coffee, orange juice, iron ore, most wood pulp and worked stone of 6802.99.00. Granite blocks (heading 2516) and worked granite and marble (6802.93, 6802.91) are not on that list, so they pay the 25%: a granite slab of 6802.93.00 pays 3.7% + 25% + 12.5%. The 25% and the 12.5% forced-labor duty stack.
- Section 232 duties, where the product is covered: steel, aluminum and copper articles, vehicles and parts, and wood products such as upholstered wooden furniture pay their own Section 232 rates.
- IEEPA tariffs no longer apply, including the additional 40% on Brazil under Executive Order 14323: CBP stopped collecting them on goods entered from February 24, 2026, after the Supreme Court’s February 20 ruling. The 10% Section 122 surcharge that replaced them ran from February 24 to July 24, 2026 and has expired.
- Duties are assessed on the customs value of the goods, not on the freight; the merchandise processing fee and harbor maintenance fee are added at entry.
Services on this lane
- Full container load (FCL) in 20′, 40′ and 40′ high cube
- Flat-rack and open-top equipment for stone blocks and machinery, on request
- Port to port, or with US customs coordination and delivery to your door
Why ship Brazil–USA with Airlift
- Full containers from Vitória, Brazil’s stone port, with planning ranges from Airlift’s own shipments
- Coverage of the main Brazilian ports and of New York, Houston, Savannah, Port Everglades, Baltimore and Los Angeles
- Experience with granite, stone and industrial cargo
- Export handled by licensed agent partners in Brazil; the US side by Airlift’s own New Jersey and Los Angeles offices
- In business since 1999; FMC-licensed NVOCC (FMC No. 016162) and C-TPAT certified
- Shipment tracking on Airlift’s digital platform
Check our licenses before you ship
Each license and membership below links to the public register or directory that lists it, so you can verify who you are dealing with before you send cargo details.
- FMC OTI license 016162 — Licensed and bonded NVOCC and ocean freight forwarder, d/b/a Airlift Container Line. Look it up on the FMC OTI list →
- FMCSA property broker, USDOT 2355713 / MC-798584 — US drayage and trucking arranged as a non-asset broker through contracted motor carriers. FMCSA SAFER company snapshot →
- WCA World member since 2019 — Los Angeles head office and New Jersey branch, both with Gold Medallion financial protection. WCA member profile →
- C-TPAT certified — Customs Trade Partnership Against Terrorism, U.S. Customs and Border Protection. About C-TPAT →
- NCBFAA regular member — National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America. NCBFAA →
- IATA CargoLink listed — IATA-accredited air cargo agent, listed in the CargoLink directory. CargoLink listing →
What to include in your quote request
The more of this you send, the more complete the quote, and the easier it is to compare with others.
- Pickup and delivery locations, preferred ports and inland transport requirements.
- Cargo description, package count, gross weight and packed dimensions, or container size and quantity.
- Cargo-ready date, delivery deadline and handling or storage requirements.
- Which services and charges you want quoted, so every quote you compare covers the same scope.
Get a quote for your Brazil–USA shipment
Your route is already in the notes; edit it if you need to. Then add what you are shipping, when it is ready, pickup and delivery locations, and the services you want quoted.
Tools and guides for this lane
Shipping from a country without a lane guide? See every origin, by region, on shipping to the USA by country of origin.
U.S. import duty on the top goods shipped on this lane
Calculated total duty for the highest-value tariff lines on this lane, from our tariff engine and U.S. Census import values. Each page breaks the duty into its components, shows its history by entry date and works through the landed cost.
- Meat of bovine animals
- Arabica coffee
- Bleached nonconiferous woodpulp
- Nonalloy pig iron
- Turbofan powered multiple engine airplanes
- Semifinished products of iron or nonalloy steel
- Passenger airplanes
- Liquid dielectric transformers
- Integral tractor shovel loaders
- Alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms
- Quartzite slabs
- Canned prepared beef
13 more in this group. Rates are our tariff engine's total for a commercial entry today. Open a page for the duty lines behind a rate and how it changed by entry date, browse all import duty pages, or price your own shipment.
Frequently asked questions
Shipping from Brazil to the USA takes about 31–64 days port to port by ocean on Airlift’s own shipments from Vitória, where most of its Brazil cargo loads: Vitória to New York 36–60 days, to Houston 38–57, to Savannah 51–62 and to Port Everglades 31–64. These are P10–P90 ranges (8 in 10 shipments arrived inside them) for sailings that departed July 1, 2025 to June 30, 2026, not guarantees. From Rio de Janeiro, Pecém and Santos, Airlift confirms the routing and transit per sailing when it quotes.
On the Brazil to USA lane, Vitória, the port of Espírito Santo and the center of Brazil’s stone industry, carries most of Airlift’s volume; Rio de Janeiro, Pecém and Santos also ship. Rio and Santos serve the quarries and industrial southeast, and Pecém, in the northeast, is the closest of them to the US Gulf. Cargo arrives mainly at New York, Houston, Savannah and Port Everglades, with Baltimore and Los Angeles also served.
Airlift ships the Brazil to USA lane as full containers (FCL): 20′, 40′ and 40′ high cube, with flat-rack and open-top equipment for stone blocks and machinery. Granite and marble are dense, so a 20′ container is often the practical choice even when the cargo would fit a 40′ by volume; US road weight limits, not the container, set the ceiling. Send the cargo details if you have a smaller shipment and the team will advise.
To ship from Brazil to the USA you need, in Brazil, a commercial invoice, a packing list and the export declaration (DU-E) filed through SISCOMEX and cleared by Receita Federal, plus ISPM 15-marked wood packaging. In the USA you need an ISF (Importer Security Filing) filed at least 24 hours before the container is loaded, and a customs entry under a customs bond. Airlift’s agent partners handle the Brazilian filings, and Airlift coordinates the US filings through licensed customs brokers.
US duty on goods from Brazil depends on the product’s HTS code and the measures in force on the day of entry, not on the freight. As of early October 2026, a Brazilian-origin entry pays the normal Column 1 rate, plus for most products the 12.5% Section 301 forced-labor duty in effect since July 24, 2026, plus a separate 25% Section 301 duty under 9903.05.01 in effect since July 22, 2026; the two stack, and each has its own exemption list (coffee, beef, orange juice and civil aircraft are exempt from both, iron ore pellets from the 25% only). Section 232 goods (steel, aluminum, copper, vehicles and parts, wood products) pay their own rates instead. IEEPA tariffs ended on February 24, 2026. Check your HTS code in Airlift’s free tariff simulator.
Yes, for most granite. The 25% Section 301 duty on products of Brazil (heading 9903.05.01, since July 22, 2026) exempts a list of HTS lines published by USTR in 91 FR 45516. Worked stone of subheading 6802.99.00 is on that list, but granite blocks and slabs of heading 2516 and worked granite and marble of 6802.93 and 6802.91 are not. So a Brazilian granite slab of 6802.93.00 pays the 3.7% Column 1 rate plus the 25% Brazil duty plus the 12.5% Section 301 forced-labor duty, which stack. Classification of stone turns on whether it is raw, cut or finished, so confirm the subheading with a licensed customs broker before the order ships.
No. Airlift USA has no office of its own in Brazil. On the Brazil to USA lane, licensed agent partners handle pickup, container loading and the export declaration, and Airlift’s own offices in New Jersey and Los Angeles book the shipment, file the ISF, coordinate the US customs entry through licensed customs brokers and arrange delivery. Airlift USA is the trading name of AIRLIFT (U.S.A.), INC., in business since 1999 and an FMC-licensed NVOCC (FMC No. 016162).
Airlift USA doesn’t publish a fixed price for shipping from Brazil to the USA, because ocean rates change and every shipment differs. The main cost drivers are the Brazilian port, the US port and inland routing, the container and any special equipment (flat rack or open top for stone and machinery), the cargo weight, the season and contract or spot pricing. US destination charges (ISF, customs entry, bond, drayage, any detention) and duties come on top. Send your cargo details through the quote form and the team prices the lane directly.
Door-to-door from Brazil to the USA is one Airlift USA booking: pickup and Brazilian export clearance through Airlift’s licensed agent partners, the ocean leg (for example 36–60 days from Vitória to New York or 38–57 to Houston), the US customs entry through licensed customs brokers, and trucking to your yard or warehouse arranged by Airlift’s US offices through contracted carriers. Heavy stone containers need trucks and chassis rated for the weight, so name the delivery point when you ask for a quote.
For a Brazil to USA ocean rate, search Airlift USA’s published rates by port pair and container type in the rate search tool; no signup is needed, but coverage varies by port pair. For stone or machinery programs, special equipment, door delivery or any pair without a published rate, use the quote form on the Brazil to USA lane page and Airlift’s team prices the lane directly.