Canadian trade remedy proceedings include:
- Beer from the U.S.A.
- Bicycles from the People’s Republic of China and Taiwan
- Carbon Steel Welded Pipe from Argentina, India, Romania, Chinese Taipei, Thailand, Venezuela and Brazil
- Concrete Reinforcing Bar from Belarus, Chinese Taipei, Hong Kong, Japan, Portugal and Spain
- Copper Rod from Brazil and Russia
- Delicious Apples from the U.S.A.
- Dishwashers and Dryers from the U.S.A.
- Fabricated Industrial Steel Components (FISC) from China, Republic of Korea, Spain, United Arab Emirates and United Kingdom
- Flat Hot-Rolled Carbon and Alloy Steel Sheet and Strip from Brazil, Bulgaria, China, Chinese Taipei, India, Korea, Macedonia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Ukraine, and Yugoslavia
- Gypsum Board from the U.S.A
- Grain Corn from the U.S.A.
- Hot-Rolled Carbon Steel Plate from Brazil, Finland, India, Indonesia, Thailand and Ukraine
- Laminate Flooring from China and Certain European Countries
- Liquid Dielectric Transformers from Korea
- Machine Tufted Carpet from the U.S.A.
- Pasta from Turkey
- Polyethylene Terephthalate Resin
- Refined Sugar from the U.S.A., Denmark, The Netherlands, United Kingdom and Republic of Korea
International trade remedy and subsidy proceedings include:
- United States – Final Anti-Dumping Measures on Stainless Steel from Mexico (WTO)
- United States – Investigation of the International Trade Commission in Softwood Lumber from Canada (WTO)
- United States – Continued Dumping and Subsidy Act (WTO)
- Canada – Export Credits and Loan Guarantees for Regional Aircraft (WTO)
- China – Grants, Loans and Other Incentives (WTO)
- China – Certain Measures Granting Refunds, Reductions or Exemptions from Taxes and Other Payments (MEX) (WTO)
- European Communities – Export Subsidies on Sugar (WTO)
- Mexico – Anti-Dumping Investigation of High Fructose Corn Syrup (HFCS) from the United States (WTO)
- United States – Laws, Regulations and Methodology for Calculating Dumping Margins (“Zeroing”) (WTO)
- United States – Measures Relating to Zeroing and Sunset Reviews (WTO)
- United States – Measures Treating Export Restraints as Subsidies (WTO)
- United States – Softwood Lumber II (GATT Subsidies Code Panel)
- Canada – Gypsum (AD) (CUSFTA)
- Canada – Beer (AD) (CUSFTA)
- Canada – Refined Sugar (AD) (NAFTA)
- Mexico – Flat Coated Steel (AD) (NAFTA)
- Mexico – Cut-to-Length Plate (AD) (NAFTA)
- United States – Softwood Lumber (AD, CVD) (NAFTA)
Trade remedy issues that our lawyers have addressed include:
- Whether natural resource harvesting/extraction measures are countervailable subsidies
- Whether export restraints are countervailable subsidies
- The determination of the amount of a subsidy using an option pricing model (Black & Scholes)
- Countervailing a price support program under Article 1.1(a)(2) of the WTO SCM Agreement
- Loans and financing subsidies
- Equity subsidies, including debt-to-equity swaps
- The interface between duty drawback and deferral programs and margins of dumping
- The pass-through of subsidies to downstream manufacturers
- Government ownership and benchmarks for the calculation of the amount of subsidies
- The effect of privatization on pre-privatization subsidies
- Input cost distortions
- Price support subsidies
- Non-market economies
- Zeroing methodology