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Yana Prigoda
Senior Associate, Advocate
Yana specialises in customs regulation and foreign trade, and also has extensive experience in currency regulation and counter-sanctions restrictions.
Yana’s experience includes advising clients on both standard customs matters—such as the determination of customs value and classification of goods—and more specific issues, including export control, localisation requirements and the export of cultural property. She also effectively represents clients during customs control procedures and at the stages of administrative and judicial appeals against decisions of customs authorities.
As an advocate, Yana represents and defends clients’ interests at the stage of operational investigative activities, as well as in criminal proceedings relating to violations of customs legislation, including smuggling, unlawful export of dual-use goods and evasion of customs payments.
Yana’s experience includes advising clients on both standard customs matters—such as the determination of customs value and classification of goods—and more specific issues, including export control, localisation requirements and the export of cultural property. She also effectively represents clients during customs control procedures and at the stages of administrative and judicial appeals against decisions of customs authorities.
As an advocate, Yana represents and defends clients’ interests at the stage of operational investigative activities, as well as in criminal proceedings relating to violations of customs legislation, including smuggling, unlawful export of dual-use goods and evasion of customs payments.
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we advised:
an international manufacturer of oral hygiene products on the risks of additional customs duty assessments arising from changes in judicial practice on goods classification and the implications for Russian distributors;
a number of international and Russian oil industry companies on the assignment of EAEU CN FEA classification codes to imported equipment;
an international biopharmaceutical company on customs implications and goods classification when importing individual components under a new contractual structure;