Trade Remedies

  • Trade remedy investigations (dumping, subsidies and safeguards) and public interest inquiries in Brazil
  • Representation of Brazilian producers/exporters involved in dumping, safeguard and subsidy investigations abroad

Trade Policy and Regulatory Affairs

  • Regulatory aspects of imports and exports
  • Non-preferential rules of origin
  • Government procurement
  • Temporary and permanent changes to import tariff in Brazil
  • Changes to the Mercosur Common Nomenclature (NCM)
  • Development and implementation of international trade compliance programs
  • Import licensing and tariff classification of goods
  • Customs law and special customs regimes
  • Government relations in international trade
  • Reports on trade policy and trade governance in Brazil and abroad

WTO and Preferential Trade Agreements

  • Assistance relative to the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements
  • Technical support and monitoring of trade agreements negotiations
  • Identification and analysis of tariff and non-tariff barriers (e.g., technical regulations, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, and quotas) and compliance to international trade rules
  • Market access, identification of commercial opportunities and improvement of competitiveness based on relevant trade rules
  • International trade disputes (consultation and litigation) before the WTO, Mercosur and under other preferential trade agreements of which Brazil is a part
  • Mercosur legislation
  • Preferential rules of origin

UP-TO-DATE Trade challenges & Opportunities

  • Social and environmental sustainability
  • Voluntary sustainability standards
  • Carbon border adjustment mechanism
  • ESG and international trade
  • Circular economy and international trade
  • Trade facilitation of environmental goods and services
  • E-commerce