Trade and Investment Policy

Gibson, Dunn attorneys assist clients in developing and implementing global trade strategies based on current trade law and negotiations for future trade agreements.  For example, the United States currently is involved in numerous trade negotiations — including the Doha Round, bilateral trade and investment agreements, WTO accession agreements involving issues such as the investment laws of Saudi Arabia and the Newly Independent States, Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (“APEC”), the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (“OECD”) and multilateral investment agreements. 

Using U.S. trade and investment laws and ongoing negotiations, our attorneys have assisted clients in:

• Determining where to locate offshore facilities based on Generalized System of Preferences eligibility, tariff schedule reductions, and the threat of antidumping cases;
• Determining where to source inputs based on eligibility for and modifications to preferential treatment programs;
• Developing strategies for clients in international negotiations;
• Removing a U.S. client’s product from the Mexican retaliation list;
• Adding a competitor’s product to the U.S. retaliation list against Europe;
• Representing U.S. companies in foreign market access complaints under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, including appearances in proceedings before the United States Trade Representative on alleged foreign government restrictions and discrimination against U.S. exports, investments, and services;
• Working with USTR, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Justice and Members of Congress to informally settle disputes with other countries and to remove barriers to trade;
• Representing clients in major mergers, acquisitions, investments and commercial transactions throughout the world; and
• Assisting in acquisitions abroad by U.S. and multinational investors, and in the United States by managing, e.g., the CFIUS process.