Brazil, in line with much of Latin America, is undergoing a process of reconfiguration of its economic and customs systems aimed at responding to contemporary challenges such as trade facilitation, legal certainty, competitiveness, international integration, and cooperation between the public and private sectors. Within this context, the 18th International Congress of Customs Studies is being held in Belo Horizonte and is establishing itself as a key forum for technical and institutional debate in the region.
Organized by the Brazilian Association of Customs Studies (ABEAD), the meeting takes place on the days 25 26 and June and gathers more than 60 international specialists in the Auditorium of the Administrative City of Minas Gerais, a complex named after Juscelino Kubitschek and designed by the renowned architect Oscar Niemeyer.
The program includes accreditation, plenary sessions, simultaneous panels, round tables and an institutional closing, in a high-level technical agenda.
The official opening is led by authorities from the State Secretariat of Economic Development and Finance of Minas Gerais, the Federal Revenue Service of Brazil, ANTAQ —the federal agency responsible for regulating and overseeing waterway transport and the maritime sector— and ABEAD itself, marking the beginning of a program with strong institutional and technical content.
The congress is structured around themes Key issues such as Decree-Law 37/66 and its 60th anniversary, Brazilian tax reform, customs control and risk management, compliance programs (AEO, CONFIA and SINTONIA), the digitization of operations, artificial intelligence applied to foreign trade, special customs regimes and international trade agreements.
On the second day, the debates continue with a focus on maritime and port transport, customs transit and the bi-oceanic route, state tax regimes, the Mercosur-European Union Agreement and special customs regimes, in addition to a round table of the Federal Revenue focused on planning for 2025-2026.
Amongst the specialists summoned Key figures stand out in Brazil, Portugal y Latin America, , including the participation of Argentine academicsThis reinforces the international and regional character of the meeting.
In that framework, the president of the ABEAD, Fernando Pieri LeonardoHe emphasized the role of the congress as a space for the articulation of foreign trade in a scenario where the growing complexity of international operations demands higher levels of coordination, modernization and efficiency in customs systems.
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