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Eduardo Díaz Gavito
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Eduardo specializes in international trade and customs, antitrust, and administrative procedures. His practice includes counselling domestic and international companies in relation to, among other subjects, analysis and interpretation of free trade agreements, rules of origin, implementation of export enhancement programs, tariff classification, customs valuation, and analysis of non-tariff barriers. His work includes all bilateral or regional free trade agreements entered into by Mexico, the WTO Agreements, and bilateral investment treaties. Additionally, he is an active litigator on behalf of domestic and international companies, before customs authorities, administrative and judicial tribunals, including the Mexican Supreme Court of Justice.

He was part of the Mexican Permanent Mission to the WTO, where he worked on the State-State dispute settlement team during consultations, and appearing before panels and the Appellate Body. He has advised foreign governments on international trade law and policy. Likewise, he has assisted foreign governments in verification visits to other sovereign nations and private companies in subsidy investigations.

Eduardo has served as a panelist under a NAFTA Chapter XIX dispute. He has also appeared as expert witness on Mexican law in Investor-State disputes under the International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), and domestic courts in the United States of America.

He is the former Chair of the Trade and Customs Commission of the Mexican Bar Association, and former member of the directive board and national treasurer. Eduardo is the current co-chair of the Mexico Committee of the American Bar Association, Section of International Law, and a number member of the International Customs Law Academy. He co-authored a chapter on Mexican antidumping law and practice on “Guide to International Anti-dumping Practice”, Gustav Brink et al (ed.), Kluwer Law, pag. 421, 2013, and co-authored the book “USMCA: regulatory framework and international principles- Comparison with other treaties”, Thomson Reuters 2021.

Eduardo earned his law degree from the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, with honours. He has a Diploma on WTO law from the Institut de hautes études internationals (HEI), Geneva, Switzerland, and a Diploma on commercial arbitration from the Escuela Libre de Derecho and the International Chamber of Commerce.

Working languages: Spanish and English