EU Trade
Capabilities
The European Trade practice covers the full range of EU and international trade issues affecting both EU and non-EU businesses, including:
- Export controls and sanctions (in particular, the EU’s Dual-use Regulation, the EU Code of Conduct for Arms exports, individual Member State regulations, the United Nations and European economic and financial sanctions regime, and compliance with due process)
- The EU Defense Package (the EU Defense Procurement Directive and the Intra-EU Transfers Directive)
- Customs compliance (classification, valuation, preferential tariff regimes, rules of origin, binding tariff information, tariff suspensions, post-clearance recovery of duties, inward/outward processing, customs warehousing, etc.)
- Trade remedies (anti-dumping, anti-subsidy, and safeguard proceedings)
- Trade barriers in export markets (pursuing representations to a third country government under the EU’s Trade Barriers Regulation (TBR) and, as required, obtaining international remedies to these barriers)
- WTO law (application of WTO Agreements, WTO dispute settlement)
- Advice on bilateral and multilateral trade arrangements (FTAs and other preferential trade agreements) and investment treaties affecting trade
- Consistency and compliance of EU technical regulations and environmental legislation with international trade law
Services
The services we provide in respect of these trade matters include, among others:
- Representation in Brussels and on-site through all phases of EU trade law proceedings
- Advice and legal support for those companies considering or involved in lobbying national and EU institutions
- Advice on import/export requirements for particular products
- Advising and designing general compliance programs tailored to individual companies’ export and import activities
- Litigation before national and EU Courts