CHEVEZ, RUIZ, ZAMARRIPA Y CIA., S.C. also provides strategic consulting services on international trade through a specialized division that are complementary to the Firm’s other services.

The objectives of the Firm’s Strategic International Trade Division are to optimize opportunities and utilize available tools for minimizing risks and reducing production and operating costs in order to make its clients’ international trade transactions more profitable.
The Firm’s services in this area are designed to assist management in achieving its overall goals. The Firm focuses its attention on operations carried on through the free trade agreements entered into by Mexico in the development of adequate import and export mechanisms, cost reduction of international traffic and the avoidance of tax and customs risks.

Within the scope of the free trade agreements, the Firm provides advice with respect to the application of the rules of origin, customs procedures, tariff reductions and restrictions and non-tariff regulations.

The Firm concentrates its efforts on analyzing and planning the productivity and profitability that a globalized market demands. The advice by CHEVEZ, RUIZ, ZAMARRIPA Y CIA. is aimed at suggesting the best strategies to optimize the financial benefits that may be obtained from available import and export mechanisms. With that objective in mind, consideration is given to options such as:

The Firm’s expertise allows it to identify the opportunities that each mechanism offers to import machinery, equipment, direct or indirect production materials free of customs duties or to obtain deferments or refunds.

As an integral part of its services, in addition to advising its clients in tax and administrative aspects relevant to international trade transactions, the Firm also provides the necessary support with respect to the commercial and civil terms under which each transaction must be carried out.

Thus, the Firm provides advice to its clients on the form and terms under which they must enter into international contracts and on the most advisable sales conditions in respect of a contemplated transaction.

The services rendered by the Firm in this area include the defense of the client’s interests through processing and supporting the various remedies set forth in the applicable laws, such as the filing of administrative recourses, bringing contentious administrative suits before the Federal Tax Court, initiating amparo proceedings and providing assistance in respect of international commercial arbitration, etc.

The Firm is also in a position to suggest the most practical approach that will enable its clients to use international transportation as a tool to reduce costs in the handling and control of merchandise. In order to achieve this objective, it has the capability of evaluating the role of customs and freight agents and also expenditures relating to air, maritime and land transportation, customs expenses, freight insurance and international commerce terms.

CHEVEZ, RUIZ, ZAMARRIPA Y CIA., S.C. maintains a policy of keeping its clients informed of any significant changes to the Mexican tax provisions on federal or local taxes, transfer pricing, social security and international trade matters, as well as any new decrees, agreements or resolutions that affect the interests of the major economic sectors.

As part of this process, the Firm periodically publishes the tax bulletin “Topicos Fiscales” which is circulated among its clients and a select group of tax, legal and financial specialists. Moreover, when circumstances so warrant it, conferences are held for its clients in which specialists provide in-depth analyses of important changes in the tax (federal and local), social security and customs laws.