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Our firm counsels importers, exporters, domestic manufacturers, foreign producers, and trading companies on all aspects of U.S. trade remedy laws. Our attorneys have significant experience in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, import relief proceedings under the escape clause (Section 201) and the Special China Safeguard Provision (Section 421), matters regarding national security restrictions (Section 232), and other trade remedies. In these engagements, we have represented clients in the steel, nonferrous metals, apparel, automotive, chemicals, footwear, textiles, petroleum, pharmaceuticals, and power generation industries, among others.

We regularly represent clients before the U.S. Commerce Department's International Trade Administration (ITA) and the International Trade Commission (ITC) in original antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, administrative and sunset reviews, and scope proceedings. Our attorneys assist clients in pre-investigation and pre-administrative review audits aimed at minimizing the clients’ exposure to antidumping and countervailing duty assessments. We also advise clients on the effects that the assessment of antidumping and countervailing duties may have on their products and the operation of their global supply chains. In addition, our attorneys have substantial trial and appellate experience in litigating trade-related matters before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Our attorneys also represent clients in matters related to unfair trade practices, such as import infringement of patent, trademark, and copyright protection (Section 337), intellectual property rights enforcement programs, and unfair trade practices proceedings (Section 301).

Our firm’s representative work in this area includes the following matters:

Representation of a Russian metals company in a precedent-setting decision by the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding the ITC’s injury and causation analysis in Title VII cases
Representation of several foreign steel producers and U.S. trading companies in multiple sunset reviews of antidumping orders against flat-rolled steel products and concrete reinforcing bars
Representation of major Russian and Chinese non-ferrous metals producers in administrative reviews of antidumping orders
Representation of the U.S. branch of an international trading company in an appeal to the Court of International Trade seeking reliquidation of entries of merchandise and the reimbursement of deposited antidumping duties
Representation of several Chinese producers and U.S. importers of steel pipe in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations
Representation of an Indonesian supplier of gift tissue paper before ITA in connection with an antidumping investigation, which led to a preliminary exclusion for that supplier’s products from the antidumping duty order in the investigation
Representation of an Argentine honey producer in an antidumping duty administrative review before ITA that resulted in extremely low and no antidumping duty margins
Representation of a coalition of large Chinese importers and retailers and their suppliers of artist’s canvases before ITA and ITC in an antidumping duty investigation which ultimately resulted in the exclusion of a product from the scope of ITA’s investigation
Representation of a U.S.-based trading company with offices throughout Asia in an antidumping duty matter before ITA and ITC
Representation of Korean and Taiwanese polyester staple fiber producers, and their major U.S. importers, in an antidumping duty matter before ITA and ITC, in which one of our clients obtained a revocation from the antidumping duty order and we assisted another client with pre-administrative review audit analyses and recommendations for remedial measures aimed at lowering potential exposure to antidumping duties.
Representation of a major Chinese supplier of wooden bedroom furniture before ITA in an antidumping duty investigation