The recent improvement of world trading issues requires specialized and qualified trading services in order to restrain unfair and unlawful trade practices, as well as to protect both domestic and foreign businesses.
B&M works along with World Trade Organization (WTO), MERCOSUR and Governmental Offices in order to represent our clients by providing them economic and legal advices in international trade matters.
Therefore, our professionals are exclusively committed and high-well qualified to address specialized services, such as listed below:
The practice of dumping happens when a company exports a product at a price lower than its normal value, which is the price charged in its domestic market at an ordinary trading course. For that reason, antidumping duties were created in order to counter balance these price discrimination effects, through an official investigation in which is analyzed the domestic industry injury.
B&M offers financial and legal assistance over customs clearance and licensing matters.
Drawback is a unique trading system that grants free tariff and taxes for the domestic industry whenever there is a raw material acquisition from national or foreign companies.
Our professionals provide specialized consulting on import and export rules, as well as offers guideline planning to increase our clients’ global trading flow.
B&M handles several legal proceedings against intellectual property infringements (copyright and industrial property), as well as manages trademark registrations and patent applications in all technology areas, both in Brazil and abroad.
International agreements elaboration, review and amendment, such as know-how transfer, technical assistance, franchising, confidentiality (trade secrets), factoring, leasing, cost-sharing, joint-ventures, patents and trademark licensing.
Worldwide companies tax planning according to the domestic regulation and international agreements. Companies’ restructuration and transfer pricing issues.
Planning and presenting political solutions to Federal, State and Local Governments regarding both domestic and foreign trading issues, including import and export matters.
B&M has a particular division responsible for both domestic and global market research, official database investigation and trading statistics analysis, in order to provide accurate trading information to our clients.
B&M has a close relationship with the competent government authorities for tariff classification issues regarding both MERCOSUR Common Nomenclature (NCM) and Common External Tariff (TEC).
Corporate strategy, finance and management dealing with buying, selling and combining of different companies that can aid, finance, or help national and international companies.
Professional assistance and guide over technical, environmental and sanitary trading barriers, amongst other non-tariff difficulties that might obstruct an ordinary trading course. Development of technical rules in order to avoid low quality products imports.
Legal assistance over norldwide trading issues, including alternative solutions in MERCOSUR and WTO matters, such as intervention and arbitration.
B&M is competent for presenting policy proposals regarding industry and trading issues with the public authorities, including basic production process (PPB), local production arrangements (APL) and tax incentives.
Rules of origin verify the original source of imported products in order to provide certain tariff preferences to our client’s business. B&M has expertise over rules of origin determination and reestablishment of ordinary worldwide trading course.
In order to apply safeguard measures, it is necessary that the imports of a determined product increase in absolute or proportional terms when compared to the national production, in such conditions that might cause deep injury to the domestic industry of similar products.
Countervailing duties are focused in avoiding injuries for domestic industries resultant from subsidized products by the government of a determined country.
Temporary tariff reduction over imports (ex-tariff), as well as definitive increase and decrease of import tax rates.
B&M offers a wide range of services related to trade operations financing, including import, export and local transactions, as well as financing procedures, risk management and projects development.
B&M works hardly in restraining unfair competition in international relations, being responsible for several economic and legal strategies development in anticompetitive conduct cases.
Specific and guided projects to domestic industries injured by illegal imports involving tax evasion, counterfeit, trademark and copyright infringements, amongst other unlawful trade practices.
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