Foreign Trade and Investments
The International Commerce and Investments management aids in identifying risks and in making the most of business opportunities in order to improve client’s profitability. It provides dynamic assessment over specific business matters accompanying businesses in the evolution of their processes at their different stages until the completion of the settled goal.
Through a deep and wide knowledge of adequate mechanisms and processes, it facilitates the presentation, formulation and time of approval of projects before the competent organizations, improving the obtained results.
Disloyal Commercial Practices
Nowadays the daily operation of companies cannot afford to ignore the complex regulation frame that governs the commerce between countries. For the international expansion of your businesses as well as for the protection of your domestic market it is necessary to be informed of international regulations that could affect the usual commercial fluctuations.
For more than 15 years Ecolatina has accompanied its clients in the defense of theirs interests in investigation processes for disloyal commercial practices in the frame of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
Today, Ecolatina is one of the most prestigious consultancies in the market of these types of services. A team of professionals, with a complete view, cross-functional and with both a legal and economic approach, have worked in the private and public field, representing the interests of national and multinational companies and business associations in investigations for dumping, subsidies and safeguards.
Foreign Trade
In the usual operations of foreign trade, Ecolatina offers assessment on the following matters:
• Imports control measures (customs valuation and import licenses).
• HS code classification.
• Assessing in matters that raise the application of trading multilateral treaties, especially those in the MERCOSUR.
• Assistance in Business Fairs and Rounds of business.
• Elaboration of Reports and delivering Training Courses.
• External market analysis and product insertion.
Promotional and Fiscal Incentives
We have wide expertise on assessing national and international investors in the carrying out of the necessary procedures for obtaining benefits of different types of regimes. Our assessment covers the following aspects:
• Definition of an appropriate strategy to optimize the presentation of the project according to what is required by the regulation.
• Elaboration of forms required by the Authority for that presentation.
• Follow up of the case file before the corresponding organization until the announcement of the Resolution that is issued over the awarding of the requested benefit.
• Preparation and presentation of any additional information that is required during the processing of the request and until the issuing of the mentioned Resolution.
Below, some of the main fiscal incentives in which we have vast experience and that are currently in force are detailed:
• Promotion of Investments in Capital Goods and Infrastructure Works (LPI)
• Exportation of turn-key plants
• “Used product lines” Import
• Import of new goods that are part of “Great Investment Projects”
• Fiscal bond for Capital Goods producers.
• Argentine Technology Fund – FONTAR
Competition Defense (Antitrust)
In a complex and changing context, competition is the main tool of survival and growth of economic actors; therefore, it is essential to pay attention to those actions or behaviors that can harm the competitive environment.
The Argentine legislation establishes which anti-competitive practices can be penalized for, as well as the conditions in which economic concentration can be carried out, and it imposes severe sanctions to the companies that infringe them.
Ecolatina has assessed numerous clients over diverse matters before the National Commission of Competition Defense, in procedures of previous control of economic concentration, in investigations for competition restricting behavior and abuse of dominant position.
Financing of Investments
Economic and legal assistance is provided in order to design and develop a better financial strategy.
Our assessment spans the following services, amongst others:
o Valuation of companies
o Evaluation of investment projects and credit risk analysis.
o BSearch of project financing in national financial institutions and International Credit Organizations.
o Development of innovative structures for funding search and liabilities restructuring.
Areas
- Foreign Trade & Investments
- Economy and Finance
- Business & Technology
- Agribusiness
- Sustainable Development & Governments
- Dumping
- Subsidies
- Safeguards
- Import Licenses
- Customs Valuation. (Adjustments for Values, Criteria Value, etc.)
- Investment Promotion on Capital Goods and Infrastructure works
- Turn-key Plants Export.
- Used Production Lines Import.
- Import of new goods that are part of “Great Investment Projects”
- Fiscal bond for Capital Goods producers.
- Argentine Technology Fund – FONTAR
