1. Antidumping (filing complaints)

Up to date, China has announced the initiations of 27 anti-dumping cases, among which 17 cases were initiated by BHP on behalf of Chinese domestic industries. On October 16th, 1997, as the attorney-in-chief and on behalf of Chinese newsprint industry, Mr. Wang Xuehua, the Managing Partner of BHP, filed China’s first antidumping application against foreign imports of newsprint. Since then BHP, on behalf of various Chinese industries, has filed applications for anti-dumping proceedings in relation to cold-rolled silicon steel, cold-rolled stainless steel plate, acrylate, and L-lysine mono-hydrochloride feed grade, etc. BHP has provided services to many leading enterprises and a number of major industrial associations in China.

2. Antidumping (responding)

As a leading law firm in China, BHP has represented domestic industries for the purpose of responding to foreign anti-dumping complaints in various cases, e.g. the bicycle case in Argentina, the garlic case in Brazil and the case concerning bags and suitcases in EU. In the antidumping case against Chinese carbon steel, which was initiated in Canada in 1997, BHP assisted the Chinese government to answer the questionnaire concerning the matter of “market economy” issued by the relevant Canadian authority. In the antidumping proceedings initiated in the US against Chinese nodular cast iron in 1997, BHP successfully helped the relevant Chinese industries to get the result of “dumping margin is negligible”. In the antidumping case against Chinese steel tube in Indonesia in 1999, BHP helped Chinese industries to obtain the treatment of “market economy” and the determination of “no dumping”.

3.Safeguard Measures

BHP’s lawyers, in the first Chinese safeguard case, represented Chinese Steel Industry and successfully urged the Chinese government to impose safeguard measures against the surging imports of steel products.

4. International trade arbitration and litigation

Beijing Huanzhong & Partners is recognized to be one of the leading law firms in China, with a practice covering a broad range of clients and matters. International trade and Foreign Investment Law Group of the Firm posses enormous experience not only in the domestic laws of China, but also in applying multilateral and bilateral conventions and treaties that affect international legal disputes.

Our Practice has a long history of representing multinationals and financial investors with respect to their foreign direct investment projects in China. These have included establishment of joint ventures and wholly foreign-owned enterprises in virtually every sector open to foreign investment in China. We counsel such clients with respect to their market entry strategies in China in light of WTO liberalizations, structuring their investment in China, operating matters, and exit transactions. In many cases, we have helped clients with complicated control issues for minority investments, opening up legal avenues for participating in regulated industries and creating avenues for financings.

We have substantial experience in resolving China-related investment and trade disputes. Attorneys in our law firm have served as arbitrators before the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission.

5. WTO related legal services

Since China’s entry to the WTO in 2001, BHP, based on its past experiences in providing legal services in respect of trade remedies law, has purposely recruited elite specializing in WTO legal affairs, which has enabled BHP to become highly sophisticated in providing WTO legal services.

In the first DSB case in 2002 after China’s entry to the WTO, that is the United States definitive steel safeguard measures, BHP participated in representing the Chinese government, one of the co-complainants. In 2003, BHP represented the Chinese government in the Canadian Wheat Board DSB case in which China acts as a third party.

6. Others

BHP’s lawyers also have experience in the areas of maritime arbitration and litigation, corporate and investment, international finance, real estate, intellectual property, international technology transfer, internal civil litigation, economic litigation, penal advocacy and internal commercial arbitration.