Fox Rothschild’s knowledgeable International Trade team assists clients with domestic and international trade compliance.

Whether through representation before regulatory agencies or customized compliance reviews, Fox helps companies reduce exposure and maximize cross-border return on investment. 

Export Compliance

Our International Trade team helps U.S. and international companies comply with the ever-changing export control regulations that govern the flow of products, technology, services and data across borders. Our experienced attorneys track changing international requirements, international sanctions developments, regulatory interpretations and enforcement decisions to ensure clients' businesses stay on track.

We counsel clients on compliance with U.S. Department of State International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), U.S. Department of Commerce Export Administration Regulations (EAR) and international sanctions enforced by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and offer a wide range of services for companies encountering export control issues.

Import Compliance & Anti-Dumping

Companies importing goods and services into the United States face growing trade enforcement and compliance challenges. Our attorneys help importers navigate this ever-changing environment in order to avoid costly missteps and reduce landed costs, providing advice and guidance on all aspects of import compliance.

Our International Trade team represents domestic and foreign companies before Customs and Border Protection and in anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission. We have won numerous outright victories for our clients in initial anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations by securing negative injury determinations before the U.S. International Trade Commission, a finding that terminates the anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation.

We have achieved zero anti-dumping duty margins for our clients in initial investigations before the Department of Commerce, a finding that terminates those investigations. Our goal is always to achieve absolute victories, but more often anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders are issued. In that scenario, we ensure our foreign exporter and U.S. importer clients have continued access to the U.S. market by earning and maintaining low or zero margins in administrative reviews, while their competitors are barred from the U.S. market by high anti-dumping and countervailing duties. In our most successful cases, anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders have propelled our clients into being the sole or premier foreign suppliers to the U.S. market.

Our experienced group employs a results-oriented approach to anti-dumping duty and countervailing duty practice before the U.S. government. We are particularly skilled in obtaining favorable surrogate values in non-market economy cases (China and Vietnam) through our contacts in many countries which have been used as surrogate countries in the past.

FCPA

International trade confronts companies with a minefield of anti-corruption compliance risks related to a growing list of U.S. and foreign statutes. We advise entities that do business internationally on Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) compliance and defend clients against FCPA enforcement actions initiated by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), should they arise.

Fox attorneys focus on prevention, drawing from a deep well of experience to help clients design internal controls that manage FCPA compliance risk and conduct internal investigations to ferret out and address potential illegal conduct. We also help companies evaluate FCPA-related risk inherent in business transactions such as mergers and acquisitions.

In the event of an enforcement action, Fox attorneys have the experience and relationships to see a case from all angles and mount an effective defense that goes beyond standard approaches.