Emmanuel González Carbajal

Associate

emmanuel.gonzalezcarbajal@deminimislaw.com
Geneva: +41 (0)77 279 0900

José Emmanuel González Carbajal is an international economic lawyer whose practice focuses on WTO disputes, treaty-based proceedings, international trade law, and international arbitration. He advises on contentious and advisory matters arising under WTO law, free trade agreements, and unilateral trade and regulatory instruments, particularly disputes concerning state measures affecting market access, cross-border trade, and investment, including trade remedies, subsidies, technical regulations, customs valuation, economic sanctions, and other regulatory measures. Mr. Gonzalez Carbajal's technical capability is recognised by Leaders League, which ranks him as Excellent for International Trade (Switzerland).
 
He regularly works on disputes concerning subsidies and countervailing measures, including aerospace-sector matters arising under WTO disciplines and the subsidy-control regime of the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement. His practice also involves legal analysis relating to balance-of-payments restrictions, national-security exceptions, customs measures, and treaty interpretation under multilateral and regional economic agreements.
 
Before joining De Minimis Law, Mr. González Carbajal served as Tribunal Assistant to panels under the United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement (USMCA), supporting all proceedings conducted to date under Annex 31-A of the Rapid Response Labor Mechanism. His work included support in the review of submissions and evidentiary records, together with research on jurisdictional questions, verification procedures, burden of proof, and treaty interpretation in disputes spanning the mining, manufacturing, and services sectors.
 
Previously, Emmanuel served as Director at Mexico’s Ministry of Economy, where he worked on international trade disciplines relating to sanitary and phytosanitary measures, technical barriers to trade, state-owned enterprises, competition policy, and consumer protection. He participated in negotiations linked to the modernization of the EU–Mexico Free Trade Agreement, CPTPP accession processes, and negotiations involving the United Kingdom.
 
Earlier in his career, Emmanuel worked at Mexico’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs on contentious and advisory matters involving public international law and dispute settlement issues. His experience included work connected to proceedings before the International Court of Justice, the Permanent Court of Arbitration, the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea, and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights.
 
In Geneva, Emmanuel has also worked with the International Trade Centre and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, where he conducted research on temporary entry provisions under the General Agreement on Trade in Services and international investment agreements.
 
Emmanuel holds an LL.M. in International Law (International Economic Law), cum laude, from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He earned his law degree with honors from the National Autonomous University of Mexico. He represented Mexico in the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and later served as an international judge in Switzerland, Spain, Colombia, and Mexico.
 
Languages: Spanish and English (fluent); French and Portuguese (working knowledge).