Brazil’s Chamber of Deputies is considering a bill to help family farmers and small rural producers adopt individual cattle traceability. The proposal has not yet become law.
More than 80% of registered import operations in Brazil now use the Single Import Declaration. A national committee also discussed digital tools and coordination with local trade facilitation commissions.
Brazil’s Senate is reviewing a bill to establish a statute for people with obesity. It also calls for research support and campaigns against prejudice.
Brazil’s federal revenue increased by 5.62% in real terms in September 2026 compared with the same month a year earlier. The real increase for the first nine months was 6.97%.
A standing subcommittee of Brazil’s Senate discussed federal social and environmental protection measures in Yanomami territory. A government representative said illegal mining had degraded 6,000 hectares.
Brazil’s Federal Police have opened a criminal investigation into possible abusive fuel pricing. The inquiry followed information from consumer-protection and oil-sector regulators.
Brazil’s Federal Police, working with the Air Force and Navy, seized a semi-submersible vessel near Marajó Island. Investigators say it may have been used to transport cocaine to Europe.
A Brazilian Senate committee is reviewing a bill to penalize people who withdraw from an adoption while custody is being granted. From 2019 to 2024, more than 2,000 children registered for adoption went through at least one return process.
Brazil’s Federal Police and Federal Revenue Service arrested a man carrying 8 kg of cocaine at Rio de Janeiro International Airport. He was planning to travel to Pakistan.
Brazil has reduced additional tax obligations for nanoentrepreneurs and individual microentrepreneurs. The latter can use an annual simplified declaration as an electronic tax document for transactions with individual consumers.
Brazil’s Federal Police have carried out an operation against illegal gold mining on the Madeira River in Rondônia state. Authorities destroyed 72 vessels and machines and seized mercury and mobile phones.
Two committees of Argentina’s Chamber of Deputies approved a majority opinion on a bill to declare rhodochrosite, also known as the Inca Rose, the country’s national stone. The proposal can now be considered by the chamber.
Argentina’s National Public Sector recorded a financial surplus of 977.173 billion pesos in September. Its cumulative surplus for the first nine months was about 0.3% of GDP.
Brazil has recorded its lowest deforestation levels on record in the Amazon and Cerrado. The country’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security reported the figures.