Frequently asked questions

CNPJ stands for Cadastro Nacional da Pessoa Jurídica — Brazil's federal company registration number. Every legally registered Brazilian business has one. It is a 14-digit number in the format 00.000.000/0001-00 and appears on every Brazilian invoice, contract, and tax document.

Every legally registered Brazilian company has one — it is printed on invoices, contracts, and tax documents by law. If a supplier can't or won't give you their CNPJ, that is itself a finding worth noting.

You can also search by company name on the Receita Federal's public portal (receita.fazenda.gov.br) to locate it yourself. BrazilCheck's free identity check accepts the CNPJ directly — if the supplier is real, it takes 30 seconds to confirm.

A supplier who is reluctant to share their CNPJ is either unregistered, operating under a different entity than the one you're dealing with, or has something on the registries they'd rather you didn't see. None of those are good outcomes for a first order.

It confirms the company's legal name, registration status (active, suspended, or cancelled), incorporation date, primary business activity (CNAE), and registered address — all pulled live from Receita Federal. No payment required.

The full report screens the same company against all six registries: Receita Federal (identity), Lista Suja (forced labor), CEIS/CNEP (federal debarment and anti-corruption penalties), Leniency Agreements (admitted corruption under Lei 12.846/2013), OFAC SDN (US sanctions), and the UN Security Council Consolidated List. Results are checked live at query time — not from a cache — and delivered as PDF, Word, and Excel to your email.

A clean result is itself a useful, documented finding — not a wasted $49. You get the full report either way, with every source cited and a timestamp. That is evidence for your own compliance file, your freight forwarder, or your trade finance provider.

Usually under a minute from payment to delivery. All six registries are checked live at the time of your query.

No. Enter a CNPJ, pay once, receive your report by email. No account, no subscription, no enterprise contract.

PDF, Word (.docx), and Excel (.xlsx) — all three sent to the email address you provide at checkout.

It includes sanctions screening (OFAC SDN and UN Security Council Consolidated List) as part of the full report, but it is not a substitute for a dedicated ongoing sanctions monitoring programme. BrazilCheck is a point-in-time check — it tells you what the registries show at the moment you run the report. For continuous monitoring of a large supplier base, you need a different tool.

Lista Suja ("dirty list") is Brazil's Ministry of Labor registry of employers found to have used conditions analogous to forced or slave labor. A match is a real, verifiable red flag for supply chain compliance — particularly relevant for US importers subject to CBP's Withhold Release Orders under Section 307 of the Tariff Act, and for EU buyers under the EU Forced Labour Regulation.

CEIS (Cadastro de Empresas Inidôneas e Suspensas) and CNEP (Cadastro Nacional de Empresas Punidas) are Brazil's federal debarment registries, maintained by the CGU (Comptroller General). A company on either list has been formally sanctioned by the Brazilian government — typically for fraud, bribery, or contract violations.

Brazil's Leniency Agreements registry records companies that formally admitted to corruption, fraud, or cartel conduct under the Anti-Corruption Law (Lei 12.846/2013) in exchange for reduced penalties. It is a different fact than debarment — a self-reported admission, not a unilateral government sanction — and a company can appear here without ever showing up on CEIS or CNEP.

The full report includes a Supply Chain Transparency section using Trase.earth's export-level deforestation exposure data for soy, beef, and other commodities covered by the EU Deforestation Regulation. This gives you evidence before the 30 December 2026 EUDR deadline, not after. Appearing in Trase's export data is normal and legal — the section is informational context, not an accusation.

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