Services: Trade Remedies
Consulting
We frequently counsel corporate and Governments on strategies to deal with potential and actual trade remedies proceedings, orders and regulations restricting imports. This often involves price undertaking compliance strategies; preparing pricing, cost-of-production, subsidy and material injury analyses and reports, as well as marketing strategies in view of potential protectionism risks in preferred export markets. We develop customised "compliance programs" to help clients assess, reduce and even avoid such export trade risks altogether, as well as turning those risks into market opportunities by monitoring the dumping and subsidy margin exposures on a regular basis.
We also advise clients on how to respond to the imposition of anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures and the applicability to actual or proposed transactions of special-purpose legislation, such as anti-circumvention, anti-absorption, refund and upstream subsidy provisions.
We furthermore advise on legal, strategic and political aspects of regional and multilateral trade negotiations. Examples include the previous Uruguay round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that established the World Trade Organization, the current Doha Development Round negotiations of the WTO, Association and other EU Agreements with countries in Europe, the Mediterranean and other world regions, and bilateral negotiations.
We also advise clients on how to respond to the imposition of anti-dumping, countervailing and safeguard measures and the applicability to actual or proposed transactions of special-purpose legislation, such as anti-circumvention, anti-absorption, refund and upstream subsidy provisions.
We furthermore advise on legal, strategic and political aspects of regional and multilateral trade negotiations. Examples include the previous Uruguay round of negotiations under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that established the World Trade Organization, the current Doha Development Round negotiations of the WTO, Association and other EU Agreements with countries in Europe, the Mediterranean and other world regions, and bilateral negotiations.
Recent highlights include:
- Assisting a non WTO Member in its accession negotiations to the WTO over a period of 10 years;
- Advising a WTO Member Government on certain EU anti-dumping investigations and the impact of the reform of EU trade remedy laws in light of the impending recognition of China as a Market Economy Country;
- Advising a WTO Member Government in GATT Article XXIV:6 negotiations with the EU following the EU's enlargement;
- Advising a WTO Member Government on several aspects (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards) of the Rules Negotiations in the WTO Doha Round negotiations; and
- Training WTO Member Government officials on how to conduct anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations.
