Practice Areas
International Trade and Customs Practice Areas
The firm counsels national producers and import and export businesses on managing customs and foreign trade operations.
Among the main services we offer are dispute resolution regarding customs valuation, tariff classification, rules of origin, and imposition of penalties; review of technical regulations and free trade agreements; and counsel on qualifying as a Foreign Trade Operator (FTO).
Lexvalor Abogados has an outstanding track record in representing disputes against the customs authority at both the administrative and judicial levels.
Services
- Preventive customs counsel
- Support in subsequent control processes or correction of customs duties
- Rules of origin
- Standards and technical regulations
- Free trade agreements
- Customs due diligence
- Tax planning for foreign trade operations
- Counsel on processes at the Office of FTO Authorizations and Files (Dirección de Autorizaciones y Expedientes OCEs)
- Counsel on Authorized Economic Operator qualification processes
- Counsel on Special Economic Development Zones (Zonas Especiales de Desarrollo Económico)
- Counsel on importing and exporting goods under current customs regimes
- Application of customs benefits
- Counsel on free zones
- Response to customs authority requisitions
- Administrative appeals against customs authority decisions
- Claims for improper payments and overpayments before the district offices of the Ecuadorian National Customs Service (SENAE)
- Actions to contest administrative acts and decisions
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