experience

highlights

Some of many milestones

What we have achieved in our collaboration with EU manufacturing industries

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2019 – 2020

The first anti-subsidy investigations where the EU countervailed subsidies granted both by the local government and those from a third country government (China) also directly subsidising the local production

2018 – 2019

The first anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations of imports of electric vehicles (e-bikes)

2016 – 2017

The complex work to ensure that the EU does not grant China market economy status and to help shape the EU's new anti-dumping methodology for imports from China

2012 – 2013

The largest trade cases in any country ever (over €20 billion of imports)

2010 – 2011

The EU's first anti-subsidy case against imports from China and the first time any country initiated simultaneous anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations of the same product from the same country

insights

selected matters

Matters which have had a substantial impact on our practice and the practice of EU trade law more generally

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Multi-layer protection

In trade defence investigations, anti-dumping has been the traditional tool to address unfair competition from third countries.

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Value chain integration & environmental protection

In our cases, always assess the status of the entire European value chain and how addressing unfair competition at one level is to the overall of the entire EU economy. We would like to illustrate this with two examples.

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