International Trade

Advising clients regarding matters of U.S. and international trade laws and rules, including export controls and economic sanctions and embargoes, U.S. antiboycott laws, and U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act; representing clients in enforcement actions before U.S. agencies involving antidumping and countervailing duties and licensing requests.
Representative international trade matters:
* We represented a Saudi steel company in an enforcement action before the U.S. Department of Commerce seeking to impose antidumping and countervailing duties on the company on its export of steel reinforcing bars to the United States.
* We advised a major Saudi exporter of downstream products regarding the potential implications that the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT, later the WTO) would hold for the export of their products to member countries upon Saudi Arabia’s accession to membership.
* We have advised numerous parties on compliance with economic sanctions imposed by the U.S. Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) against Iraq, Iran and other specially designated nationals and the application for licenses to transact in accordance with such sanctions.