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Laura Beretta is an Italian international trade advisor specializing in EU trade and customs law and Swiss preferential origin matters.

Her practice focuses on matters regarding free trade agreements, GSP regimes, tariff classification, rules of origin, customs valuation, origin marking, duty suspensions as well as exports controls and product conformity to EU standards.

She also provides companies with in-house customized training.

Laura has been identified as one of the leading trade and customs experts by the International Who’s Who Legal of Trade and Customs Lawyers.

She is Professor at the School of Management at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy, where she teaches on the post-graduate courses. She is also member of the faculty of the Master in Tax Law at SUPSI , the Professional University School of Italian Switzerland.

She has been active in EU funded technical assistance projects on customs matters with Latin American countries in the context of their negotiation of free trade agreements with EU.

Laura co-authored the first book ever published in Italy on rules of origin and has various publications in the trade field.

She holds a Ph. D in International Economic Law at Bocconi University, Milan, Italy.

Laura works in Italian, English and Spanish.