About
Provided by Veirano Advogados
Trade makes the world go round, unless friction makes it stop. Domestic manufacturers, importers, exporters and foreign producers all need legal support for smooth trade activity. Our team enables clients to operate effectively in local, regional and multilateral contexts.
The team has extensive experience in many industries – aircraft, auto parts, chemicals, glass, information technology products, petrochemicals, pulp and paper, poultry, rubber tires, steel, and wine – acting for clients in a variety of trade and customs issues and proceedings:
- Anti-circumvention investigations
- Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) compliance
- Export control
- Licensing regimes
- Origin investigations to determine the authenticity of certificates or the fulfillment of legal origin requirements for imported merchandise
- Public-interest evaluations for the suspension or reduction of trade remedy measures
- Subsidies and countervailing duties
- Tariff classifications
- Technical barriers to trade
At the multilateral level, we’re the first and only Brazilian law firm to participate independently and directly in disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO). There, we assist the Brazilian government and represent the interests of clients in a range of WTO-regulated matters:
- Anti-dumping, subsidies and safeguards
- Dispute settlement
- Import licensing
- Rules of origin
- Sanitary and phytosanitary measures
- Services
- Technical barrier
- Trade facilitation
