InternationalTrade
Located in Washington, D.C., Geneva, and Brussels, ourInternational Trade team helps major U.S. and non-U.S.
manufacturers, service providers, financial institutions,investors, and sovereign and industry clients navigate
the complex world of international trade through arange of regulatory, dispute settlement, litigation,policy, and enforcement mechanisms.
Our International Trade team, including former
government and World Trade Organization (WTO)
officials, trade remedy accounting and data specialists,and foreign legal consultants, practices before the fullrange of governmental and international bodies to help
our clients manage a wide spectrum of international
trade matters including:Trade remedy cases and appeals, in which we help
manufacturers combat unfair trade and defend thevalue of their corporate assets through U.S. antidumping, countervailing duty (anti-subsidy),
safeguard, and other actions – including the first
trade remedy case affecting more than $1.5 billion ofannual imports from China, the first countervailing
duty petitions to be successfully filed in the UnitedStates against subsidized imports from China andVietnam, the first “critical circumstances” retroactive
application of duties in 20 years, and successful
appeals in federal courts. We also advise clients thatare involved in similar proceedings in the EuropeanUnion, Latin America, Africa, and Asia;
U.S., UK, and EU export control laws, economic
sanctions, and anti-money laundering laws,
including advising financial institutions and fintech
companies on their unique compliance obligations,and assisting U.S. and non-U.S. companies withtransactional counsel, export classification andlicensing, developing and implementing internal
compliance systems, investigating potential
violations, filing disclosures, and responding toenforcement actions brought by government trade

Capability
Lawyers
Stephen J. Orava (Steve)
Washington, D.C.

Christine E. Savage
Washington, D.C.

Daniel Crosby
GenevaMarie-Sophie Dibling
Brussels

Recognition
Recognized as Best Law
Firm of the YearAMERICAN LAWYER 2023

Global Market Leader inInternational Trade
CHAMBERS GLOBAL 2024

“King and Spalding has thebest team in the practice ofinternational trade. We haveseen the results over many
years of engaging K&S torepresent us in the ITC.
There are no other firms that
prepare better for theircases.”
CLIENT QUOTE, LEGAL

regulatory agencies;
Customs compliance and litigation, including
mitigating risk and maximizing value with respect toclassification, country of origin, forced labor, andvaluation requirements of U.S. customs laws(including import laws and regulations that areenforced at the border by partner government
agencies), audits, focused assessments, priordisclosures, civil and criminal enforcement actions,and UK and EU customs laws and related policies;
Trade and investment-related national securityinvestigations, including U.S. Section 232
investigations representing domestic companies andforeign strategic, private equity, and sovereign
investors in foreign investment reviews, such as
Committee on Foreign Investment in the UnitedStates (CFIUS) reviews in the United States, similar
reviews in the EU and other countries, and Foreign
Ownership, Control, and Influence (FOCI) mitigationof foreign investment in U.S. classified operations;
Section 337 investigations before the U.S.
International Trade Commission, in which companies
are injured by unfairly traded imported products,
including products that infringe valid and enforceable
U.S. intellectual property rights, particularly ininvestigations involving the sectors most commonlyaffected by this type of investigation – electrical,
computer and mechanical patents;
WTO dispute settlement on subsidies, intellectual
property, agriculture, and other WTO matters,
including advising governments on accession
negotiations, multilateral trade negotiations,
implementation of WTO commitments, and market
access strategies for goods and services;
Free trade agreements, including advising
companies and governments during the negotiations
and with the enforcement and compliance with labor
provisions, rules of origin, and other provisions under
the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement(USMCA), the United States-Korea Free Trade
Agreement (KORUS), and other agreements;
Market access, including how to reduce or eliminate
barriers to market access under existing international
trade agreements and how international tradeobligations may affect current or future investments
or operations;
U.S.-China trade agreement and Section 301
investigations, including participation in all aspectsof the investigations (including witness testimony
and written comments) and assisting clients tomanage trade flows affected by the hundreds ofbillions of dollars in tariffs imposed on imports from500 US 2023

Ranked Tier 1 Best Law
Firms for International Tradeand Finance Law –Washington, D.C.
U.S. NEWS & WORLDREPORT 2023

Ranked Tier 1 in Trade
Remedies & Trade Policy
LEGAL 500 US 2024

Ranked Band 1 HighlyRegarded in Export Controls
and Economic Sanctions
CHAMBERS USA 2024

Ranked Band 1 WTO –Switzerland
LEGAL 500 EMEA 2023

Ranked as a leading law firmin Customs, Trade Remedies& Trade Policy, IP Section337CHAMBERS USA 2024

Ranked as a leading law firmin International Trade/WTO
CHAMBERS EUROPE 2023

Ranked as a leading law firmin Customs and Export
Controls & EconomicSanctions, Trade Remedies& Trade Policy, CFIUS,
Patents Litigation ITC
LEGAL 500 US 2024

Ranked as a leading law firmin Customs, Trade, WTO
And Anti-Dumping – Belgium
LEGAL 500 EMEA 2023

China;International trade policy, lobbying andlegislation, through our firm’s advocacy before theU.S. Congress, the Office of the U.S. Trade
Representative, the European Commission, the UK
Department of Trade and Industry, and other U.S.,
UK, EU, and intergovernmental bodies on
multilateral and bilateral trade issues;
Climate change and international trade, in which
we help industries create and execute climate change
strategies and assess the consistency of existing andproposed climate change measures with WTO
agreements and other international tradecommitments; andAdditional areas of trade practice, including
applications for GSP preferences, foreign trade zone
applications, reshoring and strengthening domestic
supply chains, using the Miscellaneous Tariff Billprocess to obtain tariff relief, and e-commerce issues.
Across these efforts, we work to add value by making theinternational trade laws and treaty systems work for ourclients.

Cases & Deals
September 19, 2024
Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issues Construction
Permit for King & Spalding Client Natura Resources’
Molten Salt Reactor To Be Deployed at ACU
August 22, 2024
King & Spalding advises EGA on Majority Stake
Acquisition in U.S.-based Spectro Alloys
August 6, 2024
NCR Voyix to Sell Its Digital Banking Business to Veritas
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CLIENT ALERT
September 26, 2024
UK Launches New Office of Trade Sanctions
Implementation for Civil Enforcement of Trade Sanctions
CLIENT ALERT
September 23, 2024
Ten-Year Statute of Limitations for Sanctions Violations
UpdateCLIENT ALERT
September 11, 2024
FinCEN’s Final Rule on Anti-Money Laundering for
Residential Real Estate Transfers
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Recommended Practice forInternational Trade
LATIN LAWYER 2023

Three-time winner of“International Trade Group ofthe Year”
LAW360Three-time winner of “Awardfor Excellence inInternational Trade”
CHAMBERS USA“I would not go anywhere
else for International Tradeadvice.”
CLIENT QUOTE, LEGAL
500 USEvents
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTJune 23, 2024
Stephanie Yarbrough to Speak at the 2024 SelectUSA
Investment Summit
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
June 11, 2024
Lucas Pires to Speak at the American Association ofExporters and Importers (AAEI)'s Annual Conference
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENT
June 4, 2024
K&S Panelists to Speak at Denmark/U.S. Defense
Industry Conference
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IN THE NEWS
September 10, 2024
Phil Ludvigson comments on the outbound investment
screening mechanism seeking to curb new American
investment in semiconductors, AI, quantum computing,and technology deemed critical to U.S. national security
and how implementation may be impacted by a newadministration
IN THE NEWS
September 9, 2024
Nick Paster discusses the Commerce Department
proposing to revise its countervailing duty regulations so it
can pursue sector-wide agricultural subsidy programs
IN THE NEWS
September 4, 2024
Phil Ludvigson comments on new foreign direct
investments in U.S. manufacturing falling to a decade lowin 2023
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