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Customs and International TradeCOLOMBIA: Legal Developments In Customs & Foreign Trade During 2017
Posted on February 9, 2018
Practice Group: Trade and Investment - Latin America
I would like to bring your attention to some key legal developments that occurred in Colombia in Customs and Foreign Trade over the last year.
These legal developments are related to 4 major industry topics:
- FTA's and other Trade Agreements
- Trade Defense ...
Development of Latin America Through Foreign Trade and Investment
Posted on November 21, 2017
Practice Group: Trade and Investment - Latin America
Please allow me to refer you to the analysis below on the development of Latin America through Foreign Trade & Investment:
José Francisco Mafla and Camilo Castrill at Brigard & Urrutia Abogados explore the development of trade throughout Latin America, and its effect on ...
Practice group cocktail in DC and networking
Posted on May 10, 2015
Practice Group: Trade and Investment - Latin America
A few days ago in Washington DC we had the first cocktail of our Trade and Investment Practice Group. It was an excellent opportunity for networking and strengthening relations among delegates of several WSG firms.
The participants to the event were able to meet and network ...
China’s Market Economy Status after 2016?
Posted on February 26, 2015
Practice Group: Trade and Investment - Latin America
Over the last years, most WTO Members have categorized China as a Non-Market Economy (“NME”) during antidumping investigations (“AD investigations”). For this reason, China and Chinese companies have been subject to methodologies that deviate from the strict comparison with domestic prices ...
Ideas and initiatives for the Practice Group
Posted on November 19, 2014
Practice Group: Trade and Investment - Latin America
Fellow Practice Group members,
I am very glad of making the first entry of the group’s blog, in which I sincerely welcome you again to WSG’s new International Trade and Investment Practice Group (Latam). This ...
Investment opportunity: New competitive free trade zone regime
Brigard Urrutia, March 2021
Colombia updated its free trade zones regime to increase the competitivity of this investment opportunity. Among others, it now allows three new activities for free trade zones, introduces the creation of a concertation committee to discuss key topics between the Government and the private sector, and it simplified procedures to declare a free trade zone. Decree 278 of 2021 was introduced as a tool towards innovation in the free trade zone regime...
COLOMBIA: Legal Developments In Customs & Foreign Trade
Brigard Urrutia, February 2018
Last year the Colombian Congress issued Law 1841, which incorporated the Free Trade Agreement (“FTA”) between Colombia and Israel into the Colombian legal system. Currently, the law approving the Treaty is under review by the Colombian Constitutional Court for its definitive entry into force...
Development of Latin America Through Foreign Trade and Investment
Brigard Urrutia, November 2017
Latin America’s current economic growth levels are among the world’s highest, and the region is preparing its regulations to meet new economic challenges. As such, the fostering of foreign trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) is important to increase GDP growth, create job opportunities, and improve logistics and production...
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