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represents one of the leading international trade practices in
China, which satisfies the clients' demand for specialized advice
concerning international trade law on all aspects applicable to
goods and services. |
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| We represent
domestic and foreign companies, organizations and governments in
antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard, and other proceedings
involving unfair trade practices; import and export controls and
customs regulations; rules of origin; market access; product
classification; and transfer of pricing; etc. We also represent
clients in litigation or dispute settlement before the World Trade
Organization, and lobbying before authorities and political
representatives. |
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International Trade Group consists of experienced lawyers and
professionals highly specialized in trade matters with the ability
of using both Mandarin and English. Our lawyers, with substantial
and unique experiences, play important leadership roles in assisting
private multinational clients. Our International Trade Group also
assists with sovereignties in antidumping and safeguard proceedings
before Chinese, EU and American authorities. These proceedings cover
a broad range of products of which some include steel, chemical
products, agriculture and machinery and equipments. |
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| T&D trade
lawyers have also actively participated in China's trade legislative
process, which enables us to better advise clients on the effects of
China's foreign trade legislation under multilateral agreements,
bilateral agreements and other economic laws and regulations. A
number of our lawyers and professionals have previously held
important positions in China's trade related government institutions
such as MOFCOM, providing them in-depth experience in handling
antidumping and countervailing duties investigations. |
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International Trade Group also coordinates with other
departments in T&D where trade law issues are an important
consideration in transactions or disputes. Owing to the solid
relationship that the International Trade Group has developed with
other law firms in the USA, Europe, Japan and Korea, in addition to
cooperation with a network of independent firms, we are able to
provide worldwide coverage to our clients on trade issues. |
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| T&D
has earned this reputation by ensuring that its clients attain their
objectives through timely and effective responses to complete deals,
and the mitigation of problems and evaluation of options. |
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AntiDumping & Safeguard
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| T&D Associates
was the first Chinese law firm to represent a foreign exporter in
China's first antidumping case. Our lawyers and professionals are
particularly experienced in this field and have successfully represented
many multinationals targeted by China's antidumping investigations. |
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| IIn
1997, T&D Associates became the first law firm to represent
a Canadian company in China¨s first antidumping
investigation on newsprint from Canada, USA and Korea.
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In 2000, T&D Associates
assisted our clients in signing China¨s first antidumping
suspension agreement in the antidumping investigation into
stainless steel, which maintained the foreign exporters¨
market share in China. |
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In 2001, T&D
Associates represented twelve out of the fifteen responding
companies as well as the Japanese, Korean and Thai
Governments throughout the Polystyrene case. On behalf of
our clients, we won the first ever no injury determination
in MOFTEC/SETC preliminary findings and successfully
terminated the investigation. |
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T&D assisted our
client in launching China's first antidumping
review proceeding of the PET film case. We requested that MOFTEC re-calculate the dumping margin of our client, which
allowed us to successfully lower our client's dumping margin
to 0%. |
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In 2003, T&D
Associates assisted Aekyung Petrochemical Co., Ltd., a
Korean based company, to receive a margin of 0% in the
final determination of the Phthalic Anhydride case. |
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In 2003, T&D
Associates assisted Asahi Co., Ltd., a Japanese based
company, to receive a dumping margin of 0% in the final
determination of the SBR case. |
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In 2003, T&D
Associates assisted LG Chem, Mitsui and NPU to receive the
lowest dumping margin in the final determinations of the PVC
case, the TDI case and the Phenol case respectively. |
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In 2003, T&D
Associates assisted all the responding companies (BASF,
Kumho-Mitsui, Mitsui Takeda, NUP and Sumika-Bayer) in the
termination of the MDI antidumping investigation. |
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On November 14,
2004, with the assistance of T&D Associates Optimal Chemical
(Malaysia) Sdn Bhd (Dow Chemical¨s subsidiary in Malaysia)
won the lowest dumping margin among all responding companies
in the final determination of the Ethanolamine case. |
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November 30, 2004, with the assistance of T&D Associates Dow
Chemical and Vulcan signed the Price Undertaking Agreement
with MOFCOM for the Chloroform case, which maintained the
clients¨ market share in China. |
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On January 1,
2005, with the assistance of T&D Associates Corning Inc. won
the lowest dumping margin of 1.51% (de minimis, no dumping
duty will be paid) among all responding companies from the
US, Japan and Korea in the Optical Fiber case. |
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On April 28,
2005, with the assistance of T&D Associates INVISTA Far
Eastern Co., Ltd. (formerly DuPont Far Eastern Co., Ltd.)
received a dumping margin of 0% in the final determination
of the Nylon 6, 66 case. |
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On September
21, 2005, with the assistance of T&D Associates Dow Chemical
Company, a US based company, received a dumping margin of
4.3% in the preliminary determination of the ECH case. |
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On November
16, 2005, with the assistance of T&D Associates, Exxon Mobil
Corporation received the lowest dumping margin of 3% among
all the responding companies in the preliminary
determination of the EPDM case. |
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On January
16, 2006, with the assistance of T&D Associates, Dow Corning
Corporation (US) and Dow Corning Limited (British) received
the lowest dumping margin among all the responding companies
in the final determination of the Dimethyl Cyclosiloxane
case. |
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On January
31, 2007, with the assistance of T&D Associates, Mitsubishi
Chemical Corporation and HANWHA Chemical Corporation (Korea)
won a non-injury determination for the Octonal case. |
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recently, on March 2, 2007, with the assistance of T&D
Associates, the Dow Chemical Company and OPTIMAL Chemicals
(Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. won a non- injury determination for
Butanol case. |
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For more details, please
see the attached Achievement.
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Antidumping-Reviews |
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T&D Associates is one
of the best law firms in China that represents foreign exporters in
China¨s antidumping review proceedings |
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In 2002, T&D Associates assisted a Korean company in launching
China¨s first interim review proceedings regarding PET film from
Korea. We requested that MOFCOM re-calculates the dumping margin for
our client, which successfully lowered our client¨s dumping margin
to 0%. |
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In 2004,
T&D Associates assisted a Korean company in initiating
interim review regarding PET Chip from Korea |
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In 2004, T&D Associates
assisted a Malaysian company in initiating interim review regarding
acrylic ester from Malaysia |
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In 2004, T&D Associates
assisted an Indonesian company in initiating interim review
regarding acrylic ester from Indonesia. |
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In 2005, T&D Associates assisted BASF Korea in responding to interim
review regarding TDI from Korea. |
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In 2006, T&D Associates assisted OPTIMAL in initiating interim
review regarding EOA from Malaysia. |
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In 2007,
T&D Associates assisted Dow Corning in initiating interim review
regarding Silicones from the United Kingdom |
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rrepresented several foreign producers in China's first safeguard
investigation against certain steel imports. We defended the
interests of our clients before the Chinese government by responding
to the questionnaire, submitting the non-injury and exclusion
arguments and presenting their case in the public hearing. These
efforts achieved substantially positive effects. |
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experience of T&D International Trade Group
in antidumping and safeguard proceedings: |
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Cases Archives: |
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AntiDumping Cases in China |
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Safeguard Case in China |
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AntiDumping Cases in U.S.A. |
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AntiDumping
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