International Trade/WTO

About

Provided by Veirano Advogados

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
• Anti-dumping practices
• Authorized Economic Operator (AEO) compliance
• Customs valuation
• Export control
• Licensing regimes
• New shipper review processes
• Origin investigations to determine the authenticity of certificates or the fulfillment of legal origin requirements for imported merchandise
• Product scope assessment of trade remedies
• Public consultations on trade negotiations and legislative changes
• Public-interest evaluations for the suspension or reduction of trade remedy measures
• Safeguards
• Sanitary and phytosanitary barriers
• Subsidies and countervailing duties
• Tariff classifications
• Technical barriers to trade

We have broad experience with requests to change the Common External Tariff (CET) permanently or temporarily, particularly concerning import tax reductions based on supply shortage or lack of a similar national product. We also guide requests to include or exclude products in Brazil’s List of Exceptions to the CET and List of Temporary Increases in the CET, tackling short-term imbalances arising from international economic crises.