Successfully defeated “EAPA” allegations of evasion of antidumping duties

Recovery of millions of dollars for clients by challenging Customs’ classification decisions in the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Defeat of Customs’ claims for millions of dollars in penalties in numerous administrative penalty matters

Obtaining positive NAFTA Origin Verification (audit) determinations with all three customs authorities in North America

Obtaining a jury verdict in a $30 million+ False Claims Act lawsuit

Passing numerous Focused Assessment and other types of intrusive customs audits

Obtaining hundreds of rulings in virtually all aspects of the customs laws, allowing clients to have legal certainty with respect to Customs’ position

Negotiated settlements with the Office of Foreign Asset Control and Bureau of Industry and Security

Saved clients millions of dollars of Section 301 duties and obtained legal certainty around savings by obtaining country of origin binding rulings from Customs

Successful petitioning for exclusion of products from scope of antidumping and countervailing duty orders, resulting in clients avoiding having to pay exorbitant antidumping and countervailing duties

Provision of in-house compliance services for clients as “stop gap” measures during times when no import-export personnel available

Development of comprehensive written procedures and internal controls over import-export operations

Establishment of enterprise-wide tariff classification databases

Filing of numerous reconciliation entries, allowing clients to obtain refunds of millions of dollars in overpayments of customs duties

Successful requests to have products excluded from the 25% Section 301 duties on Chinese origin products

Passage of miscellaneous tariff bills that provide duty-free treatment for our clients’ products