Move from Sweden to Brazil return home with peace of mind

If you stayed abroad for more than 1 year and are effectively transferring residence to Brazil, the used goods that make up your unaccompanied baggage are treated as baggage, exempt from taxes, under the terms of Instrução Normativa RFB nº 1.059/2010. The condition is that the cargo arrives within the legal window and that the documentation proves the transfer of residence. New goods and vehicles are excluded from this exemption.

Yes, and this is not our preference: it is not possible to complete customs clearance before your disembarkation in Brazil. The Receita Federal do Brasil (Brazilian Federal Revenue Service) requires, among the shipping documents, proof of the traveler's arrival in the country, and the right to the customs duty relief is tied to your definitive disembarkation. The cargo can leave Sweden and arrive before you — the legal window allows up to 3 months in advance — but it will remain waiting at the port or airport until you arrive, with storage and demurrage accruing during that interval. That is why we schedule from your date of disembarkation, not from the date when the house is ready to be packed.

Unaccompanied baggage must arrive between 3 months before and 6 months after the date of your disembarkation in Brazil. This window is the most sensitive point of the route. Because maritime transit consumes 45 to 65 days, we plan the cargo's shipment date based on your flight date, not the other way around. Outside the window, the Receita Federal treats the cargo as regular importation and levies the taxes.

This is a specific point of this route. The Swedish customs duty relief imposes that, in the twelve months following its granting, the goods must not be sold, rented, lent, donated or pledged. For those who completed a short-term assignment and want to return before that deadline, it is necessary to check the situation with Tullverket before shipping the cargo back. We carry out that verification in the initial analysis.

You can bring it, but the tax treatment is different. The baggage regime for transfer of residence presumes a stay abroad of more than 1 year. With a shorter period, the operation needs to be structured differently and taxes may be due. We evaluate your specific case before issuing a quote, because the relocation strategy changes considerably in that scenario.

Motor vehicles are not included in the baggage treatment in Brazilian importation. It is a known asymmetry of this route: Sweden accepts vehicles, including leased cars, under the entry customs duty relief, but Brazil does not admit them under the baggage regime. Importation is a separate operation, with its own taxation and requirements, including homologation. Our team advises on feasibility case by case, almost always unfavorable.

It depends on the device and the region. Sweden operates on 230 V, with outlets of types C and F. In Brazil, much of the country uses 127 V. Electronic devices with dual-voltage power supplies generally work with a plug adapter. Motor-driven appliances, such as washing machines, dryers and dishwashers, do not operate properly with simple adapters and require a properly sized transformer, when feasible. We evaluate item by item in the inventory, because often it is not worth paying freight for equipment that will not power on.

Yes. The return of animals to Brazil requires an international veterinary certificate issued by an official veterinarian, valid rabies vaccination and compliance with the requirements of the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock. The return protocol is much simpler than entry into Sweden, which requires antibody titration and a 90-day wait for certificate issuance. Transport of the animal is a process separate from the move of the goods and runs in parallel, conducted by our pet department. We have already transported more than 1,000 animals.

Proof is provided by a set of documents, and the hierarchy among them matters. The two pieces of evidence that effectively support the clearance are the Residence Declaration issued by the Brazilian Consulate of the city where you live and utility bills in your name, such as water, electricity, gas and internet: these demonstrate effective residence at the address. Documents such as the personnummer, registration at Skatteverket, the residence permit, the employment contract and the rental agreement appear in the dossier as supporting documents, together with the passport showing entries and exits, but do not prove residence on their own, because they attest to the authorization to reside and not to the fact of having lived there. It is also necessary to have the document that attests the termination of that residence, normally the change notification to Skatteverket. We assemble this dossier with you before shipment, because gathering documents abroad after you are already in Brazil is much more difficult.

In Sweden, collection, packing and exit documentation are carried out by accredited agents in our international network, under supervision of our team. In Brazil, customs clearance, final delivery and assembly are executed by One Moving's own team, without intermediaries. Because Brazilian customs clearance is the critical point of this route, it is handled entirely under our direct management.