Bill is an international trade lawyer with Harris Bricken focusing on the area of trade policy. He represents US importers and foreign exporters and producers in various international trade cases, including antidumping and countervailing duty cases, Section 337 intellectual property cases and various Customs issues related to international trade cases.
Bill has been helping clients with international trade issues for over 30 years, starting as an attorney in the Office of General Counsel, US International Trade Commission, and Office of Chief Counsel and Office of Antidumping Investigations, US Commerce Department. He has extensive experience representing US and foreign companies in antidumping and countervailing duty cases, having won more than 50 trade cases in private practice.
1. Avoiding Tariffs The United States has imposed tariffs and duties against a whole slew of Chinese products, increasing the costs of those products sold to the United States. To avoid these tariffs and duties, many companies are shipping their Made in China products to countries other than China and then shipping those products to
President Trump has his trade war, but it is not just against China. This trade war is the United States against the World. President Trump has announced tariffs of 25% on steel imports and 10% on aluminum imports under Section 232 of the United States’ National Security law. It is important to note that because
With Amazon and Ebay having increased their efforts at bringing in Chinese sellers and with more and more Chinese manufacturers branching out and making their own products, the number of companies contacting our international intellectual property lawyers about problems with counterfeit products and knockoffs has soared. If the problem involves infringing products being imported into
The U.S. Government has been cracking the whip on products transshipped from China. Chinese companies and U.S. importers of their products often tell me they are not concerned about U.S. Antidumping (“AD”) and Countervailing Duty (“CVD”) orders because they can “just get around those orders by transshipping our products to Malaysia, Vietnam, Philippines, Sri Lanka,
Don’t get crushed when you import The US Importer of Record is liable for antidumping and countervailing duties tied to the product being imported. The Importer of Record is the company listed in Block 26 of the U.S. Customs 7501 form. When I told a US Senator this, he responded by saying he “thought the
Over the last several years, many US importers have called me after learning they are facing liability for antidumping and countervailing duties on a number of different products. These duties can be in the millions of dollars, even though the importers did not know the products they were importing were covered by US antidumping and
