Trade Remedies & Disputes Law Practice

With significant collective experience spanning decades of practice, Curtis provides strategic counsel on trade remedy law, helping clients navigate increasingly complex regulatory environments and respond effectively to challenges from antidumping investigations, countervailing duty and anti-subsidy cases, safeguard measures, import duties, tariffs, and other trade restraints that can significantly impact business operations and market access.

Clients rely on us to advise on their strategic or commercially significant challenges. These include governments seeking to protect domestic industries, importers facing trade barriers, and US exporters confronting foreign trade measures—throughout the entire trade remedy process and in all aspects of trade remedy litigation, from initial investigations and preliminary determinations through administrative reviews and complex appeals proceedings.

Strategic Advisory Services

Curtis provides comprehensive risk assessment and strategic planning to help clients anticipate, prepare for, and respond to trade remedy challenges. Curtis' advisory services include early warning systems, compliance auditing, and strategic positioning to minimize exposure to trade remedy actions.

Clients benefit from our tailored strategies that consider not only immediate legal challenges but also long-term business objectives and market dynamics, ensuring that they maintain competitive advantages while navigating complex regulatory landscapes.

Dispute Resolution & Litigation

Our disputes capabilities encompass the full spectrum of trade remedy litigation, from administrative proceedings before trade authorities to appellate advocacy before specialized courts and international tribunals. Curtis handles complex multijurisdictional disputes that require coordinated strategies across different legal systems.

Drawing on deep experience in both offensive and defensive trade remedy strategies, we help clients pursue necessary protections while defending against unfair trade measures that threaten their market access and business operations.

Regulatory Compliance & Risk Management

We help clients establish robust compliance programs that address the evolving landscape of trade remedy regulations across multiple jurisdictions. Curtis' risk management approach includes ongoing monitoring of trade policy developments and their potential impact on client operations.

Our compliance services extend to helping clients understand and navigate complex procedural requirements, documentation standards, and reporting obligations that are critical to successful outcomes in trade remedy proceedings.

Cross-Border Capabilities

Leveraging our global presence and strategic partnerships, Curtis provides seamless coordination of trade remedy matters across multiple jurisdictions, ensuring consistent strategies while accounting for local legal requirements and cultural considerations.

Trade Remedy Proceedings that Curtis Handles

• Antidumping (AD) Investigations: Comprehensive representation in antidumping proceedings, including market analysis, dumping margin calculations, injury assessments, and strategic advocacy before administrative authorities and reviewing courts.
• Countervailing (CVD) Duty Cases: Expert counsel on anti-subsidy investigations, including subsidy identification and quantification, benefit analysis, and defense against allegations of unfair government support across various industries.
• ITC Injury Proceedings: Representation in International Trade Commission (ITC) injury proceedings, which are critical components of antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. By law, antidumping and countervailing duties cannot be imposed unless the ITC makes an affirmative injury determination.
• Safeguard Measures: Strategic guidance on safeguard investigations and emergency trade measures, including injury analysis, causal relationship assessments, and advocacy for proportionate and time-limited relief measures.
• Import Duties & Tariffs: Comprehensive counsel on import duty and tariff matters, including classification disputes, valuation issues, origin determinations, and challenges to additional duties imposed through trade remedy proceedings.
• Administrative Review: Ongoing representation in periodic and sunset reviews of existing trade remedy orders, including changed circumstances reviews and new shipper reviews that can significantly impact duty liability.
• Appeals & Judicial Review: Sophisticated appellate advocacy before specialized trade courts and international dispute resolution panels, challenging adverse administrative determinations and seeking appropriate relief for clients.

Proven Track-Record of Successes

The Curtis collective team has secured favorable outcomes before all major trade authorities and tribunals worldwide, demonstrating our deep understanding of procedural requirements, substantive law, and strategic advocacy across:

• United States: International Trade Commission (ITC); Department of Commerce (DOC); Court of International Trade; Federal Circuit Court of Appeals; US Trade Representative (USTR)
• European Union: European Commission (Trade Directorate); General Court of the European Union; Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU); European Court of Auditors; EU Member State Courts
• Third-Country Agencies: Canada Border Services Agency; Mexican Trade Remedy Authorities; Brazilian Trade Defense Department; Moroccan Administrative Authorities; Asian Trade Remedy Bodies