International Trade Litigation

About the Group

Cameron LLP’s international trade practice group has established a preeminent reputation representing primarily foreign exporters of goods to the United States. Members of the group are particularly experienced in U.S. government investigations of alleged unfair trade in agricultural products, having represented foreign producers of such products as grapes, potatoes, tomatoes, hogs, cattle and wheat from Canada; flowers from Ecuador and Israel; hazelnuts from Turkey; raspberries from Canada and Chile; pears and dairy products from Australia; palm oil from Malaysia; mushrooms from Korea; black pepper and paprika from India; menthol from China; shrimp from Brazil, and rice from Taiwan.

Other products subject to investigations in which members have participated include steel and iron products from Canada, Chile, China, India, Israel, Taiwan and the United Kingdom; automobiles from Japan; chemicals from Canada, China, France, Israel, Japan and Spain; textiles from India, Japan and Pakistan; synthetic rubber and digital counters from Brazil; lumber, paper, copper, zinc, lead and nickel from Canada; footwear from Brazil, India and Korea; leatherwear and jewelry from Israel; televisions, fishing tackle and cookware from Taiwan; silicon metal from Argentina; nitrocellulose from Yugoslavia; tires from Korea and Taiwan; sulphur and cement from Canada, and granite from Spain.

Trade Warriors

In addition to U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty cases, members of the group have also handled “Section 301” investigations, “safeguard” investigations under Section 201, proceedings under the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences, and classification and value issues before the U.S. Customs Service. We have extensive litigation experience before the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. Trade Representative’s Office, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

We have been retained to advise foreign governments regarding negotiation and implementation of bilateral and multilateral trade agreements with the United States. We also have experience before international bodies interpreting and applying U.S. law. Between 1989 and 1993, the Cameron LLP International Trade Practice Group represented Canadian clients in twelve of the first nineteen U.S. appeals to be brought before binational panels under the United States – Canada Free Trade Agreement. We also successfully represented Canadian clients in the first U.S. appeal to be brought before a binational panel under the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

For more information on our International Trade Litigation Practice, please contact Tom Skilton at tskilton@CameronLLP.com.