Biography: Trade & Customs

Carolina is a founding and managing partner of Uno, as well as director of new business development for the firm. In her role as a legal adviser, she primarily focuses on issues related to trade remedies, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, technical barriers to trade and other non-tariff barriers. Carolina has been practising in the area of international law for 15 years and international trade law exclusively since 1999. She has significant experience representing companies before the different government institutions that regulate and apply international trade laws and other related matters. She has defended the interests of Brazilian and foreign producers, exporters and importers in several different jurisdictions, including Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Argentina and the United States.

In addition, Carolina coordinates and provides training sessions on international trade law and policy matters. She also has experience in matters regarding valuation, tariff classification, the US Bioterrorism Act, rules of origin and preferential duty eligibility, export taxes, the US and the EC general system of preferences, WTO inconsistencies within custom unions, and general compliance counselling on certifications.

Carolina has received awards as one of the world's leading trade lawyers every year since 2003. In 2005, she was selected to assist the Brazilian mission in Geneva on various WTO issues, specifically with respect to negotiations on the anti-dumping agreement and on dispute resolutions involving the following cases: US-Cotton, EC-Sugar, EC-Zeroing, US-Privatisations and EC-Bananas. Her record in international - bilateral, regional and multilateral - negotiations includes reports and strategy recommendations for Brazilian exporters of goods and services on trade debates before the Brazilian Entrepreneurial Coalition (CEB).