
Our Firm
Soto - Arancedo is a law firm that specializes in customs, foreign exchange, and
foreign trade law.
It was founded in 1978 by Carlos Alberto Soto and has vast experience in advising and representing different Foreign Trade operators, various Business, and Industrial Chambers, as well as extensive experience consulting for CDA (Customs Brokers Center of the Argentine Republic) for over 30 years.
Our exclusive dedication to these areas of practice has provided us with deep technical
knowledge of customs and foreign trade issues, both in its practical aspects and in its
legal framework.
Our core values: professionalism, seriousness, and reliability have been the pillar for
our activity in the last 40 years and have laid the foundation for our trajectory and
prestige, giving a boost of confidence to all clients who trust in us and filling us with
pride.

Our Areas of Practice
- Legal advice on customs, foreign exchange, and foreign trade, with special focus on compliance.
We provide counseling in all our practice areas in order to solve difficulties or conflicts in question as well as preventively to simplify our clients decision-making and ensure compliance with legal regulations on customs, foreign exchange and international matters.
- Legal advice and management in relation to customs valuation.
We have vast experience in import and export customs valuation, value analysis, linkage, royalties, value adjustments and applicable international regulations.
- Legal advice and representation in customs related matters.
We provide nationwide support in tariff classification, contestation of tax charges, customs violations, tax repetition, repetition of duties unduly paid, customs infractions, and tax executions, both in customs headquarters and before the National Tax Court, the Federal Administrative Courts of justice and the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation.
- Legal advice and representation in foreign exchange related matters.
We provide counseling on foreign exchange regulations as well as intervention in summary proceedings for violations of the criminal exchange law substantiated before the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic and the Financial Criminal courts.
- Legal advice and representation in foreign trade.
Business, contracts, and international disputes; dumping; safeguards; quotas; import licenses; trademark fraud; incoterms; Mercosur regulations; protections; precautionary measures and legal actions in general against illegal measures or restrictions of the Authorities or related to issues within our areas of practice.
- Legal advice to Customs Brokers.
We understand and share the problems faced by Customs Brokers from all over the country and we, therefore, offer these professionals free advice from the Firm, as recognition after so many years of relationship with the CDA (Customs Brokers Center) and its associates.

Members

Carlos Alberto Soto
Lawyer graduated from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Belgrano (1974)

Mariana Arancedo
Lawyer graduated from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (1997)

Juan Pedro Arancedo
Lawyer graduated from the School of Law and Social Sciences of the University of Buenos Aires (2009)
Clients
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Novedades & Artículos
Eliminación de la doble certificación a la hora de importar
Con fecha 17/12/2025 el Poder Ejecutivo Nacional dicto el decreto N°892/2025 por medio del cual se establece un nuevo paradigma respecto de las certificaciones requeridas por la Aduana a los
La declaración inexacta no implica la prohibición de la mercadería
En esta oportunidad quiero abordar como se relacionan administrativamente la infracción aduanera de declaración inexacta con las prohibiciones de importación. Este tema es de recurrente consulta ante sumarios aduaneros iniciados
Situación actual de la tasa estadística aduanera
En esta oportunidad quisiera abordar un tema que se encuentra actualmente en cuestionamiento en materia de comercio exterior, me refiero al cobro de la denominada “tasa estadística” para las operaciones
Contact Us
- (11) 5235 - 5605
- administracion@sotoabogados.com.ar
- Alicia Moreau de Justo 740, 3 Piso "1", CP 1170, CABA, Argentina
