JUAN MIGUEL SLUMAN – PRACTISE AREAS

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Analysis, advice, sponsorship and management of administrative and judicial proceedings in conflicts that arise at public and private level due to the interpretation and application of local and international regulations regarding international merchandise trade and customs matters, including referred to the multilateral system administered by the World Trade Organization (WTO), the Mercosur Treaty, the treaties concluded within the scope of the Inter-American Association of Integration (ALADI) and other regional and international agreements inherent in international merchandise trade .

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In particular:

 

• Regulations on operations and general and special customs regimes.

• Rules of origin, tariff classification and customs valuation of merchandise.

• Taxes on international merchandise trade.

• Tariff preferences regimes.

• Dumping, subsidies and safeguards.

• Export stimulus regimes.

• Regimes of law 19.640, free zones and customs warehouses.

• Interventions and direct restrictions on international merchandise trade.

• Design of international trade operations and promotion and processing of specific regulations.

• Defense against accusations of customs infractions or disciplinary sanctions.

• Performance in all the customs delegations of the country and, in degree of appeal, before the National Tax Court and National Justice in the Federal Administrative Contentious, and higher instances.

 

Experiences:

 

Lawyer (University of Buenos Aires).

 

Specialist in Customs Management (Argentine Institute of Public Finance Studies).

 

Doctorate in Law (University of Buenos Aires): admitted, with all the approved subjects and thesis in preparation on "Restrictions in international merchandise trade".

 

Graduate Professor of the University of Buenos Aires in the Update Program on Customs Law and Integration (subject "Restrictions in International Trade").

 

Assistant Professor of Graduate School of State Lawyers (Procuring the Treasury of the Nation) in Customs Law.

 

Former Professor at the Customs Training Institute and the Customs Training School (subject "Legal Customs Regime").

 

Lawyer Consultant in International Trade and Customs in "Richards, Cardinal, Tützer, Zabala & Zaefferer".

 

Former member of the legal firm specialized in Customs and Foreign Trade, "Barreira, Rodriguez Larreta & Vidal Albarracín".

 

Former career officer of the General Directorate of Customs (Legal Advisor and Director of Customs of the Interior) and former Civil and Commercial Justice Officer.

 

Author of books and numerous articles of his specialty. Speaker and speaker in congresses of the specialty.

 

Active Member of the Argentine Scientific Society, Member of Number of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies, Active Member of the Argentine Association of Fiscal Studies and Member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital.