Customs and International Trade is a complex practice where our lawyers have extensive experience supporting the projects that involve customs and trade law issues. We use our knowledge and experience in customs and international trade equally when working on projects in this practice, as we do in multi-disciplinary matters involving such issues as transactions, tax and currency regulation, criminal and administrative law, and litigation.

Much of our expertise on Customs and International Trade relates to trade remedies (anti-dumping measures specifically). We not only represent the interests of our foreign clients in trade remedies investigations in the Eurasian Economic Union, but also advise Russian clients in trade remedies investigations abroad.

Our well-established relationships with top law firms in all major jurisdictions around the world enable us to exchange experience with the best international lawyers and, if necessary, work as a single, one-stop-shop team to provide clients with the highest quality service.

Our lawyers are the members of working groups at the Russian Federal Customs Service, including, among others, an expert group on client-centric approach in the customs authorities’ activities and an expert group on customs register of intellectual property.

We are also actively involved in the relevant committees of various business associations such aw AEB, AmCham, CCI France Russie, ICC Russia, Russian-German Chamber of Commerce, CCPIT, and others) and have been recognized in numerous international and Russian ratings (Chambers, Legal500, Best Lawyers, and Pravo-300).

Our services

The practice offers comprehensive services in Customs and International Trade, including legal support in the following matters:

  • Import and export of products including contracts, customs classifications, declaration process, contract relations with customs brokers;

  • Export control and related sanctions advice;

  • On-site and off-site customs inspections;

  • Strategies for compliance with customs and trade remedies rules for assuring compliant and sustainable development of clients’ business;

  • Parallel import and customs related intellectual property issues;

  • Antidumping, anti-subsidies and countervailing investigations in the Eurasian Economic Union;

  • Trade remedies anti-circumvention;

  • Customs disputes related to customs evaluation, customs classification and trade remedies measures;

  • Administrative and criminal liability cases related to customs offences.

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