“When you go into trade disputes that are complicated and messy, having a team like BakerHostetler, that has the core understanding of your operations, gives you a sense of confidence.”
– Chambers USA 2020
BakerHostetler’s International Trade Remedies and Trade Policy team represents U.S. importers, foreign manufacturers, trade associations and foreign governments in legal proceedings regarding:
- Tariffs on imported goods, including anti-dumping and countervailing (anti-subsidy) duties.
- Safeguards (Section 201 investigations).
- National security tariffs (Section 232 investigations).
- Tariffs for unfair trade practices (Section 301 investigations).
- Customs enforcement proceedings.
- Market access and other trade policy issues under bilateral, regional, and multilateral agreements.
We represent clients in international trade disputes before the World Trade Organization (WTO); government agencies including the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); the U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; binational panels under the Canada-U.S.-Mexico Free Trade Agreement; and other dispute resolution bodies.
Our International Trade Remedies and Trade Policy team is comprised of attorneys who are recognized as strategic, unconventional problem-solvers providing trade policy advice to CEOs and senior government officials and counseling clients on strategies for mitigating the risk of trade remedy tariffs and other non-tariff barriers. Our team includes lawyers with many years of experience in government offices responsible for developing, executing and enforcing international trade policies. Over the past 20 years, we have handled some of the highest-profile international law and international trade matters with respect to trade remedies, customs issues and other government regulations on international trade, and have won significant victories assuring the trade flow of our clients’ products.
We have defended agricultural imports for a full-course meal, including pork, beer, alfalfa and apples. We have defended a full range of forest policies and forest products, including lumber, wood moldings, newsprint and supercalendered paper. We have defended green energy products – wind towers and solar panels – and industrial products from a variety of countries, including pure and alloy magnesium from Canada, cement from Mexico, nitrocellulose from Japan, fuel ethanol from Brazil, drains and drill pipe from China, and mobile cranes from Austria, Germany, Japan and China.
Our attorneys have in-depth experience with a diverse number of issues impacting international trade and investment, including agricultural and industrial market access, customs, digital trade, climate change and environmental policy, import licensing, intellectual property, labor rights, sanitary and phytosanitary standards, subsidy programs, supply chain resiliency, technical regulations, and U.S. trade preference programs (GSP, AGOA, CBI). In addition to our deep knowledge of U.S.-Canadian trade relations, we also offer expertise in the Southeast Asia, including extensive contacts in governments throughout the region. Our team members speak fluent Chinese, French, Spanish and Vietnamese.
The strength of our International Trade Remedies and Trade Policy team is enhanced by our extensive network of carefully chosen international independent law firms that share our strengths and quality standards and with which we have strong and long-standing relationships. We are adept at coordinating multijurisdictional teams, drawing on these international law firm relationships where necessary, to manage our clients’ needs around the world. We combine our lawyers’ experience with that of the most appropriate international law firm as needed, enabling us to provide our clients with advice from the best-equipped specialists with the most relevant experience in each jurisdiction, delivered in a collaborative way. For example, BakerHostetler leads the U.S. portion of a legal consortium selected as legal services suppliers to advise the U.K. government on international trade disputes from 2021 to 2025.