Customs and Anti-dumping

Our Group

As members of our national Taxation Group, our lawyers have extensive experience at handling a variety of customs law matters for businesses across the country.

Our Clients

We provide legal advice and representation across a broad range of industries and businesses, including importers, exporters, customs brokers, freight forwarders, transportation, and insurance companies.

Our Services

We advise on customs compliance matters, including tariff classification, preferential access rules of origin, calculation of value for duty (e.g., treatment of royalty payments, buying commissions, other fees paid by the importer or post-importation charges), as well as representing clients in customs seizures and AMPs (Administrative Monetary Penalties).

• Import and Export Controls
• Customs Appeals — origin, classification, value
• Advance Customs Rulings
• Customs Seizures
• NAFTA Rules of Origin, Planning / Dispute Resolution
• Free Trade Agreements
• Duties Relief and Duties Deferral
• Trusted Trader Traveller Programs
• Marking and Labelling of Goods
• FEMA Anti-Extraterritorial (Helms Burton)

Our lawyers have also handled criminal cases involving alleged customs contraventions, including: undervaluation, double-invoicing, misdescription, untrue statements and smuggling. Our experience also extends to extradition proceedings respecting alleged contraventions of foreign customs laws, and negotiating with federal Crown Counsel and the Canada Border Services Agency.

We provide advice to domestic and international corporations on a variety of issues, including anti-dumping, countervail (anti-subsidy), safeguards, import and export controls, customs classification and value for duty, government procurements and investment regulation.

Our Experience

• Phillips Fasteners/Starborn Industries (2009) — Fasteners from China and Taiwan, Normal Value re-investigation, CITT Injury Review, Product Exclusion
• Evraz Inc. NA Canada — Carbon Steel Plate Dumping Case, CBSA/CITT (January 2010) Steel Plate Dumping Case, Ukraine
• SSAB North America/Evraz Inc. NA Canada — Oil Country Tubular Goods (Casing and Tubing) from China Dumping/Countervailing Duty Case, CITT, February 2010. Involved three Canadian Steel Pipe Producers.
• Carlisle Construction Materials/Hunter Panels LLC – April 2010 Polyiso Insulation Board from the U.S.—CBSA Normal Values CITT Dumping Inquiry. Acted for U.S. Exporters (Albrecht, Basraon and Xilinas)