International Trade Laws & WTO

Overview

For more than two decades, the Firm’s International Trade Practice Group has been at the forefront of trade remedy disputes, representing several multinational corporations (including Fortune Global 500) companies in complex anti-dumping and anti-subsidy matters.

Over the years, the practice group has built a substantial clientele – domestic and international, who rely on the Firm’s experience and expertise in proceedings relating to anti-dumping duty, countervailing or anti-subsidy duty, safeguard duty, quantitative restrictions as well as non-tariff barriers and cross border trade strategies. The team has been engaged by clients across sectors including but not limited to steel, petrochemical, aluminium, telecom, rubber, textiles, automotive components, tyres, chemicals and plastics.

The Firm has extensive experience in representing clients in original investigations, midterm reviews, new shipper reviews, scope reviews and sunset reviews as well as anti-circumvention investigations before the Directorate General of Trade Remedies (DGTR).

The Firm also represents clients in appeals filed against the findings of the DGTR before the tribunals, various High Courts, and the Supreme Court of India.

Our practice head, Reena Khair has argued numerous anti-dumping cases at an appellate level, contributing to the jurisprudence and interpretation of anti-dumping and trade remedy laws in India.

Focus Areas

Anti-Dumping/Subsidy Investigations
Safeguards
Tariff Litigation
Foreign Trade Policy
Free Trade Agreements (FTA)

Key Practice Differentiators

  • More than 25 years’ experience in representing clients before investigating authorities.
  • In depth understanding of market dynamics and perspectives, as the Firm has been regularly advising foreign producers and exporters, as well as Indian domestic industry.
  • Attorneys with extensive litigation experience enabling development of legally sound strategies in an uncertain global environment.

Awards & Recognitions

  • Reena Khair has been recognised among Top 100 Individual Lawyers for Anti-Dumping in India by the Forbes Legal Powerlist 2020, 2021
    Forbes Legal Powerlist
  • Reena Khair has been recognised as an Elite Leading Lawyer for International Trade & WTO by the Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022
    Legal 500 Asia Pacific
  • Gagan Verma has been recognised as a Recommended Lawyer for International Trade & WTO by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022
    Legal 500 Asia Pacific
  • Ranked Firm for International Trade & WTO by Legal 500 Asia Pacific 2022
    Legal 500 Asia Pacific
Key Contacts

Reena Asthana Khair

Gagan Verma

Shampa Bhattacharya

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