Philippe De Baere of Van Bael & Bellis in Brussels considers the recent legal developments at WTO and EU level relating to Chinese exporting producers and similar non-market economy countries and how they will impact individual treatment, market economy treatment and definition of the domestic industry.

The International Who’s Who of Trade & Customs Lawyers has brought together four of the world’s leading practitioners to discuss key issues facing trade and customs lawyers today.

Konstantinos Adamantopoulos and Folkert Graafsma from Holman Fenwick Willan LLP explain the possible effects of recent EU anti-dumping procedures against suppliers from non-market economies.

The International Who’s Who of Trade & Customs Lawyers has brought together three of the leading practitioners in the world to discuss key issues facing lawyers today.

In June and September 2010, the European Commission initiated anti-dumping (AD) and safeguard (SG) and countervailing duty (CVD or AS) investigations into Wireless Wide Area Network (WWAN) modems respectively. Should these investigations all lead to protective measures, such a grand slam will pose some unprecedented questions.

In this section we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who stand out worldwide. Our listings grow to encompass 276 lawyers from 41 countries in this edition, the largest we have published to date in this sector.

With the benefit of over 15 years of research and tens of thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the trade and customs marketplace worldwide.

With the benefit of over 14 years of research and tens of thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the trade and customs legal marketplace worldwide.

In this section we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who stand out worldwide.

With the benefit of over 10 years of research and thousands of votes from clients and private practitioners, Who’s Who Legal takes a closer look at developing trends in the trade and customs legal marketplace worldwide.

We have selected 251 experts in 31 jurisdictions who can be considered leading trade and customs lawyers. In this section, we analyse the findings of our research in greater depth to identify the firms and practitioners who had the strongest overall performance.

A total of 24 lawyers are listed in this chapter as leading practitioners in a field in which three firms stand out as leaders in their countries.

Sidley Austin LLP is at the head of our research with ten nominees from three offices in the US, Switzerland and Belgium making the grade.

These are interesting times for trade and customs lawyers. The travails in the worldwide economy have taken their toll on international trade, and new pressures are leading countries to see trade and customs regulation as a way to alleviate domestic economic concerns.