Also, officials were known to expect payments for import licenses and government contracts.
The entire profit of the firm with an import license is paid to the government.
In October 1980, the same government changed the policy to no quantitative restrictions on rice under general import license.
Requirements for obtaining general import licenses were then changed.
Are you having problems learning where/how to obtain an import license?
Does it take a long time to receive approval for an import license?
Under new regulations, virtually any Brazilian bank will be able to issue an import license, ideally within a week of application.
The problem, the report says, is that the border agents have no routine way to confirm the validity of import licenses.
Initially 25,000 applications for import licenses were received, many from speculators.
"The government's mad because I don't have an import license."