Important Tariffs and Import Duties Updates

Martin Schaefermeier

DLA Piper LLP (U.S.)

• Of Counsel, DLA Piper LLP (U.S.)
• International trade law with a focus on import relief actions, subsequent litigations of such actions, and related import/export matters
• More than 25 years of experience in a full spectrum of international trade matters, including antidumping, countervailing duty, and other import relief proceedings, import compliance, international trade legislation, trade negotiations, and trade litigation
• Assisted domestic producers, importers, foreign producers, and exporters in a wide range of industries, including ferroalloys, ferrous and nonferrous metals, chemicals, construction materials, and other industrial and consumer products
• Represented clients with respect to trade relief actions before the Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Court of International, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and NAFTA binational dispute resolution panels, and trade and customs matters before the Office of the United States Trade Representative, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, the Foreign-Trade Zones Board, other federal agencies and the United States Congress
• Assisted clients with a wide range of issues in the customs area, including classification, country of origin and valuation matters, preferential duty treatment under various free trade agreements and programs, marking requirements, voluntary disclosures, customs audits, due diligence, and Maritime law (Jones Act)
• Author of several publications related to areas of practice areas, including new antidumping duty petition: certain preserved mushrooms from France, the Netherlands, Poland, and Spain – consequences for industry and downstream consumers, April 2022; new antidumping and countervailing duty petition: white grape juice concentrate from Argentina – consequences for industry and downstream consumers, April 2022; and the U.S. lifts Section 232 tariffs on steel and aluminum from the UK effective June 1, 2022, March 2022
• Member of the District of Columbia Bar, American Bar Association, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and United States Court of International Trade
• LL.M. degree, Duke University School of Law; J.D. degree equivalent, Albert-Ludwigs-University; Freiburg, Germany
• Can be contacted at [email protected] or 202-799-4423