The International Trade Practice at Marcelo Simão Solicitors provides consulting and litigation services at a local, regional and multilateral level.

At the national level, Marcelo Simão Solicitors has professionals with vast experience in dumping, subsidies and safeguard investigations and reviews before the Departamento de Defesa Comercial (DECOM), the Brazilian authority responsible for conducting these administrative proceedings, as well as before Brazilian Courts. In addition, the Practice provides consulting services on product tariff classification, rules of origin, customs valuation, import licensing, technical barriers, etc.

Our team is also active outside Brazil, providing consulting services to associations and companies on Mercosur issues and negotiation of trade agreements. Most counseling in this respect relates to rules and market access. In addition, the Trade Practice works in collaboration with foreign law firms to assure the best and most efficient representation of its clients in trade remedy proceedings outside Brazil.

The services rendered include legal representation of companies and trade associations on trade remedies actions, specifically anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguard investigations; complete assistance in customs matters, including rules of origins, tariff classification, ex-tarifarios, list of exemptions to the MERCOSUR common external tariff (TEC); and International Dispute Settlement before MERCOSUR, the World Trade Organization (WTO), and commercial arbitrations. We also advise clients on non-tariff barriers, such as technical regulations, sanitary and phytosanitary measures, as well as quotas that affect their operations in Brazil and overseas.