International Trade & Customs

Consistently recognized as the most experienced practice in the CIS, our lawyers have advised sovereign governments and major industrial conglomerates in many of the most significant cases of the past decade, including the Ukraine-EU and Russia-EU Steel Agreements, Ukraine-China Steel Agreement, Ukraine’s recognition as a market economy, and the establishment of the new Common Economic Space between Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.

Magisters continues to assist government and multilateral organizations in the development of their international trade regulations and policies, and advised the Ukrainian Ministry of the Economy on the country’s accession to the WTO.

We have advised in more than 100 trade remedies in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, as well as the European Union, the United States and more than 20 jurisdictions worldwide.

We have extensive experience in iron and steel, metal and ore, food and beverage, pharmaceuticals, media and communications, chemical and other industries subject to international trade regulation.

Our services include:

• anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations, safeguard actions and other trade remedies;
• global customs strategies and management, including classification, valuation, customs fraud, and country-of-origin issues;
• international and regulatory compliance, including export control and trade sanctions;
• analysis and advisory services on WTO, multilateral and bilateral agreements, including analysis of competitive policies, representation in WTO dispute settlements, and advice on various aspects of WTO accession;
• intellectual property related border control matters;
• data protection.