Trade remedy: Consulting

KA-Legal counsels corporate clients and sovereign governments on proactive strategies to evaluate, manage, and mitigate protectionist trade barriers worldwide. We develop customized compliance programs, conduct price undertaking assessments, build cost-of-production and material injury models, and evaluate margin exposure to help businesses mitigate trade risks and convert regulatory barriers into commercial opportunities.

We also advise on specialized statutory mechanisms, including anti-circumvention inquiries, anti-absorption reviews, refund applications, and upstream subsidy claims. Additionally, our firm provides legal, strategic, and political guidance in bilateral, regional, and multilateral trade negotiations, such as the WTO Doha Development Round and various EU association agreements.

Recent experience

  • WTO accession negotiations advisory

    Assisting a non-WTO member state through its formal WTO accession negotiations over a ten-year period.

  • Market economy recognition law reform

    Advising a WTO member government on EU anti-dumping investigations and the legal implications of EU trade remedy law reforms regarding market economy status recognition.

  • GATT Article XXIV:6 enlargement negotiations

    Advising a WTO member government in GATT Article XXIV:6 renegotiations with the EU following European Union enlargement.

  • Doha Round rules negotiations

    Advising a WTO member government on anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard aspects of the Rules Negotiations during the WTO Doha Round.

  • Investigative official training programs

    Designing and delivering technical training programs for government officials on conducting anti-dumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard investigations.