Adriana Ibarra Fernández

Practice Areas

Band 2 Adriana has more than twenty years of experience in customs and foreign trade. She joined Baker McKenzie in 2001, was named a National Partner in 2005 and a Senior Partner in 2018. Adriana has previous experience as Legal Director of rules of origin, customs procedures and safeguards at the Ministry of Economy, where she participated in the negotiation of various free trade agreements ("FTAs") and in the first dispute settlement cases that Mexico initiated against the United States, under NAFTA.

Adriana's main areas of practice are customs and foreign trade matters, including rules of origin, verifications of origin and FTA-related issues, tariff classification, customs valuation, maquila (IMMEX) and import and export promotion programs, non-tariff import regulations, customs audits, consumer protection and other regulatory and commercial matters.

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association

International Chamber of Commerce

Canadian Chamber of Commerce

Mexican Bar Association

Publications

Various interviews and articles in media specialized in business and economics such as CNN, El Financiero, Bloomberg TV, Excelsior, Reforma, El Universal, among others, on aspects related to NAFTA and USMCA.

Author, "COMPLIANCE, COMPLIANCE, COMPLIANCE," North America Free Trade & Investment Report –Thomson Reuters, January 2010.

Author, "Being a Good Taxpayer without a Voluntary Disclosure Procedure." BNA International, July 2010.

Author, "Rules of Origin in International Government Procurement Procedures in Mexico," World Trade Executive. Thomson Reuters, January 15, 2011.

Expert in these Jurisdictions

Mexico

Languages Spoken

Spanish, English

Education