Enrique Carlos Barreira
Customs Law and Foreign Trade. Tax and Administrative Law. International Business.
Experience
As a founding partner of BRSV Abogados, Enrique is in charge of managing the strategies of all litigation and cases of the law firm. He was legal advisor to the National Customs Administration (1971-1980), a member of the committee that amended Customs Law No. 21,369 and a member of the Drafting Committee for the Customs Code (1977-1980). He was the Argentine representative and spokesperson for the Group of 77 in customs matters at the UN Convention on International Multimodal Transport of Goods (Geneva, 1979) and the arbitrator appointed by the Argentine Republic in Ad hoc Courts of Mercosur. Enrique was a member of the commette in charge of studying the preliminary draft of the Argentine Multimodal Transport Law and was an Argentine representative in the Group of External Consultants for drafting the Rules of Application of the Mercosur Customs Code, appointed by the Inter-American Development Bank on behalf of the Southern Common Market Group. A member of the Review Commission of the Mercosur Customs Code Project, in its March 2000 version. A consultant called by the Customs Broker Association of Paraguay to advise the Association and the Paraguayan government on two bills of law for amending the Customs Code.
Activities and Memberships
A member of the Public Bar Association of the Federal Capital, the Committee on Tax and Customs Law, the Arbitration Court of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, the List of Permanent Referees of the Bar Association of the City of Buenos Aires, the Argentine Institute of Fiscal Studies. A founding member of the International Academy of Customs Law, a permanent member and former Chairman of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies. Enrique is the Director of the Journal of Customs Studies, a publication of the Argentine Institute of Customs Studies. A member of the Editorial Committee of the World Customs Journal, a publication sponsored by the Center for Customs and Excise Studies (Australia), Charles Sturt University (Australia) and the University of Münster (Germany).
He is currently Director of the Journal of Customs Studies. A professor of the postgraduate studies program at the University of Buenos Aires School of Law in Dumping and Subsidies and the Customs Tax System. A professor in the postgraduate course of the School for Government Attorneys (ECAE) under the Federal Treasury Attorney General’s Office in the area of Customs Law. Enrique is the head of the Foreign Trade Update Program at IDEA (Institute for Business Development in Argentina).
Publications
A co-author of Código Aduanero Comentarios – Antecedentes y Concordancias [Commentaries to the Customs Code: Background and Concordant Provisions] in volume I and an author of volumes II-A and II-B; a co-author of Código Aduanero Comentado [Commented Customs Code]. He has published more than sixty articles since 1974 on legal issues related to international trade, the international trade system, Mercosur, as well as operational and tax issues related to customs, in books and professional periodicals.
Education
Law degree form the University of Buenos Aires School of Law (1969).
Language
English.
