Sergio Barajas

Practice Areas

Specialized in Foreign Trade, Customs, Regulatory and Tax-Customs issues, consultant and litigant, strategist in customs government affairs and advisor for Mexican Chambers and several organizations for customs cases. He is member of the Strategic Committee of the Firm.

Career

Sergio has more than 24 years of professional experience attending tax-customs, relevant cases, unfair practices in foreign trade, interpretation of treaties and agreements to which Mexico is Party, as well as administrative issues and optimizing operational instruments of the federal governments benefit to production and exportation. He has given conferences in Mexico and abroad for multiple organizations on Customs and Foreign Trade matters.

Professional Memberships

President of the Mexican Executives Foreign Trade Institute (IMECE).

Member of the Mexican Bar Association (BMA).

Ex-president in the committee of the regulatory matters for customs and foreign trade issues.

Ex-President in the committee of tariff classification

He was member of the Inter-Ministerial Commission on the Automotive Industry (CIIA)

Publications

He is director of the book "Expert in foreign trade and customs", as well as author of the chapters "Subsequent acts of the customs clearance" and "Customs defence", published by Thomson Reuters and IMECE He has been author of many legal-technical articles that have been published in specialized magazines.

Languages Spoken

Spanish, english

Experience

Sergio has over 17 years of experience as professor of Customs Law at Mexican Executives Foreign Trade Institute.

He is professor of “Cumstom Law” for the Post-graduate law degree in Universidad Panamericana campus Aguascalientes, Mexico.

He is also frequently invited as a speaker in differents forums in Mexico and abroad by different chambers and organizations

Education