Practice areas

Compliance; International trade & bilateral investment treaties; Import/export legal compliance

Introduction

Jason Sun is a senior partner of Dentons China, who also serves as a specialist of the ICC Task Force on International Trade and State Aid, deputy director of WTO and Anti-dumping Specialties in the Beijing Lawyers Association, the Ministry of Commerce’s legal counsel advising trade remedy matters, a think-tank expert of the Import and Export Compliance Committee, and expert member of the Wuxi International Commercial Dispute Settlement and Intellectual Property Service Centre. Sun has received professional recognition in the field of international trade remedies from global Lawyer rating agencies such as Chambers, Legal500, The Best Lawyer, China Business Law Journal and Legalband.

Sun has served in the Beijing WTO Centre as director of the information department. He started his legal practice in 2008, focusing on acting for the Chinese government and enterprises in responding to foreign trade remedy investigations against China, being one of the most experienced lawyers in acting for the Chinese government in responding to the countervailing duty investigations against China. Sun successfully represented clients in trade remedy investigation cases initiated by the US, EU, Canada, Australia and elsewhere, obtaining zero or minimum tax rates. In addition, he provides trade remedy compliance legal services for clients in Southeast Asia, Mexico, Dominican Republic and other countries in their trade and investment to various countries.

Over the years, Sun has accumulated rich experience and outstanding achievements in the field of foreign legal practice such as trade remedy, especially in the US market. Cases he represented cover all procedures of the US trade remedy investigation, including initial investigation, annual review, new shipper, industry injury, sunset review, changed circumstance, anti-circumvention, EAPA, scope ruling, and CIT and CAFC proceedings. Through his years of case experience in the field of trade remedy, Sun analysed the most favourable response strategy and the optimal plan of reporting cost, sales, and subsidy data for clients. In addition, entrusted by the Shanghai Commission of Commerce, Sun designed and constructed the world’s first country trade remedy compliance self-check system for Chinese export enterprises.

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