GlobalAutoIndustry.com’s latest Audio Interview “Duty Optimization in Mexico´s Automotive Industry” features Luis F. Martinez. Mr. Martinez is a Partner with AMS – Abogados Martinez Serna S.C. AMS, a Mexican Firm, with head offices in Monterrey, Mexico. His experience centers on the interpretation and application of trade agreements with the United States, Canada, the European Union, Chile, Israel and others. His practice includes consulting and litigation in customs, regulations and non-tariff restrictions, international commercial transactions, foreign investment and regulation of export programs, including the IMMEX program. He currently has over 20 years of experience, and has worked with automotive OEMs and suppliers for many years.
About Interview Guest:
Mr. Luis F. Martinez
Partner
AMS – Abogados Martinez Serna, S.C.
You can find more information on his LinkedIn profile page here.
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In the 17-minute Audio Interview, Mr. Martinez discusses these questions:
• What are the origins of the Automotive Industry in Mexico?
• What is a Bonded Warehouse?
• But nowadays when one arrives to Mexico one is able to see many brands and models that were not available to the consumer before. Your thoughts?
• How did NAFTA affect the auto industry?
• What is PROSEC, and who uses PROSEC?
• What are the takeaway points?
About Luis F. Martinez:
Partner, AMS – Abogados Martinez Serna, S.C.
Obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in Law from the ITESM, Monterrey Campus in 1997 and obtained a Master’s Degree in International Commerce Regulation from the University of Arizona in 1999. Provides counseling on various legal matters relating to international business. His widest experience centers on the interpretation and application of trade agreements with the United States, Canada, the European Union, Colombia and Venezuela, Chile, Israel and others. His practice includes consulting and litigation in customs, regulations and non-tariff restrictions, international commercial transactions, foreign investment and regulation of export programs, including the IMMEX program. Luis worked at Basham, Ringe y Correa and Baker & McKenzie in the areas of international trade and customs. He currently has over 20 years of experience.
Before starting his private practice, Luis was a professional researcher on topics relating to unfair practices in international trade, foreign investment and customs at the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade in Tucson, Arizona, USA, as well as at the Legal Center for Inter-American trade of the ITESM, Monterrey Campus. He has given classes on international trade regulations, comparative law of international trade, NAFTA, customs law and international economic law as professor at private and public universities in Mexico.
Luis has published several studies and articles on international trade, NAFTA, customs topics and investment in legal magazines in the US, Canada and Mexico. He has been a speaker in multiple forums and conferences at the national and international levels.
He is a member of the Mexican Bar Association, the U.S. Mexico Bar Association (USMBA), the Mexican Institute of Foreign Trade Executives and of the International Section of the American Bar Association.