International Trade & Customs
Alston & Bird provides clients a diversified range of services related to international trade. Through decades of experience, we have gained expertise in achieving effective results in precedent-setting trade matters.
EXPERIENCE
We offer trade law expertise across the full range of issues that confront companies doing business in an international setting, including the following specific disciplines:
- Trade remedies, such as antidumping and countervailing duty investigations
- Section 337 unfair trade proceedings relating to intellectual property
- Trade agreements and the WTO
- International trade policy and legislative issues
- Foreign assets controls, embargoes and sanctions
- Export controls and antiboycott regulations
- Customs law
- Foreign investment in the United States, including CFIUS reviews
GLOBAL TRADE SOLUTIONS
Our trade lawyers assist foreign, domestic and multinational clients with complex and cutting-edge global trade issues such as managing export compliance on rockets "exported" to our space, defending against allegations of dumping in China, Egypt, Mexico and South Africa, or assisting foreign investors' acquisition of sensitive American infrastructure. Our lawyers specialize not only in achieving compliance with U.S. and foreign trade laws, but offer our clients global strategies to position their products and services at a competitive advantage, leveraging where appropriate the skill sets of our top-ranked intellectual property, homeland security, legislative, financial services and other practices.
RECOGNITION
Not only are our lawyers singled out in various publications such as The Best Lawyers in America, but they also actively serve in high-level positions, such as on the board of the American Association of Importers & Exporters, the President’s Export Council, the D.C. Bar International Section’s steering committee, as vice chair of the American Bar Association’s Customs Law Committee and as co-chair of the ABA’s Committee on National Security and Defense.
WHY CHOOSE ALSTON & BIRD?
Our breadth of practice and expertise within each facet of international trade, combined with our focus on our client’s needs, leads to practical and efficient solutions to today’s most complex trade issues.