Cuesta Campos understands the strain businesses face with the different countries trading regulations. Therefore we have brought together a team of experts to offer legal counsel and specialized services in International Trade, focusing on three main areas:
- Consulting services.
- Foreign trade audit and compliance.
- Foreign trade procedures and representation.
More specifically, our foreign trade services include:
Consulting
- Customs law: Regimes, customs valuation, regulations, foreign trade taxes, customs offenses and penalties.
- Registration, compliance and administrative controls for foreign trade development programs: IMMEX.
- Administrative customs clearance procedures.
- Tariff and non-tariff regulations for import and export: tariff classification, identification of requirements, compliance approaches.
- Legal basis, planning and documentary review for: change to definitive importation regime, VAT zero rating, virtual exports, foreign trade reporting.
- Certificates of origin: tariff preferences, origin criteria, forms, schedules, etc.
- Tax aspects of foreign trade: duties, determinations, etc.
- Official Mexican Standards (NOM[1]s), price estimates and prohibited imports.
Audit and compliance
- Export development programs (IMMEX).
- Inventory control for temporarily exported merchandise.
- Zero-rated transactions for VAT purposes through virtual exports.
- Definitive imports and exports, customs deposit, change of customs regime, and other definitive regimes.
- Proper disposal of waste from temporarily imported merchandise.
Procedures and representation
- Registered importers and prior import and export permits.
- Filing and extension of development programs.
- Duty drawback.
- Certificates of origin.
[1] NOM – Normal Oficial Mexicana
