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Provided by Gonzalo Bernal Neumann
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Lawyer with a Master in International Trade and Economics at the World Trade Institute, Switzerland, being a specialist in international trade and customs. Gonzalo has a broad experience in advisory, preventive audits and litigation related with sophisticated trade operations, trade facilitation and investment.
His professional expertise includes legal advisory provided to either domestic or international enterprises, specifically related with Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), Regional and Plurilateral Agreements (Andean Community, Pacific Alliance, among others) compliance and WTO law, customs valuation, tariff classification, rules of origin, trade and regulatory barriers (sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade), investment, infrastructure, supply chain management, transport, and trade remedies (dumping, subsidies).
He has a strong expertise with the industrial and manufacturing sector, especially with the food industry and agribusiness.
He has also been involved as an international consultant working at USAID linked with trade facilitation programmes and export competitiveness. Moreover, Gonzalo was an academic assistant of the Swiss State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) in a Peruvian project, is professor for the Post-Graduate School of International Economic Law of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP) and lecturer of several workshops.
- Member of the Asociacion Peruana de Derecho Aduanero y Comercio Internacional – APDACI (Peruvian Association of Customs Law and International Trade).
- Member consultant of the XCOM Committee – Foreign Trade and Logistics Committee of the Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL).
Author and co-author of a number of articles related with trade and customs
published in journals, legal reviews, and books:
- "Sugar is the New Tobacco": The Peruvian Junk Food Law in Light of the WTO Law after the Seals Dispute". Society of International Economic Law 2014 Conference. Bern, Switzerland.
- "The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) eco-label and its private standards examined under the Technical Barriers to Trade Agreement (TBT): A methodology to apply a legal assessment in private labeling.". In: Master Thesis.
- "Collaborative Border Management: Un acercamiento al principio de cooperacion aduanera a proposito del Acuerdo de Cooperacion y Asistencia aduanera Peru-China". (Collaborative Border Management: an approach to the customs cooperation principle regarding the Peru-China Customs Cooperation and Assistance Agreement). In: Derecho y Sociedad N° 35. Journal of the School of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).
- "Regulation on Border Measures in the Peruvian Law: a customs instrument to protect intellectual property". In: Ius Et Veritas. Journal of the School of Law of the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru (PUCP).
Provided by Chambers
Partner Gonzalo Bernal Neumann continues to be a respected practitioner within the international trade market in Peru. He is well regarded by market commentators.
Provided by Chambers
Gonzalo Bernal Neumann is knowledgeable and skilfully handles all matters, showing strong adaptability to client needs.
Gonzalo Bernal Neumann is knowledgeable and skilfully handles all matters, showing strong adaptability to client needs.
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Super Comercializadora de Alimentos S.A.
We handle the portfolio of sanitary registrations and provide regulatory advice on food matters.
Peruvian Cosmetic and Hygiene Association -COPECOH
We assisted more that 30 members of COPECOH to claim before the commission of elimination of bureaucratic barriers of INDECOPI to revoke an illegal and disproportionate fee related with the importation and commercialization of sanitary products and cosmetics.
Sociedad Nacional de Industrias -SNI (Trade Union of Peruvian Industries)
We assisted SNI with the analysis of regulations related with the said Law (e.g. Health Warnings Manual) and its consistency with the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, Free Trade Agreements (Pacific Alliance), and the Andean Community Act.
Taking into account that our Firm has a Global Trademark Service platform, CMPC / PROTISA, one of the leading Latin American companies in the production and sale of forestry, pulp, paper and tissue products, transferred to our Firm the management of its Patents.
COMPAÑÍA LATINOAMERICANA DE RADIODIFUSIÓN S.A (LATINA)
Copyright infringement action filed by Grupo Rio (represented by APDAYC), against Latina.
Super Comercializadora de Alimentos S.A.
We handle the portfolio of sanitary registrations and provide regulatory advice on food matters.
Peruvian Cosmetic and Hygiene Association -COPECOH
We assisted more that 30 members of COPECOH to claim before the commission of elimination of bureaucratic barriers of INDECOPI to revoke an illegal and disproportionate fee related with the importation and commercialization of sanitary products and cosmetics.
Sociedad Nacional de Industrias -SNI (Trade Union of Peruvian Industries)
We assisted SNI with the analysis of regulations related with the said Law (e.g. Health Warnings Manual) and its consistency with the WTO Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT) and Intellectual Property Rights Agreement, Free Trade Agreements (Pacific Alliance), and the Andean Community Act.
Taking into account that our Firm has a Global Trademark Service platform, CMPC / PROTISA, one of the leading Latin American companies in the production and sale of forestry, pulp, paper and tissue products, transferred to our Firm the management of its Patents.
COMPAÑÍA LATINOAMERICANA DE RADIODIFUSIÓN S.A (LATINA)
Copyright infringement action filed by Grupo Rio (represented by APDAYC), against Latina.