Expertise

International trade disputes involve complicated and burdensome reporting requirements. Our advisors assist legal counsel and companies in identifying and extracting the relevant information from company records and systems to be reported to the government trade authority. We have significant experience with SAP and other types of accounting software and the methods used to extract the necessary sales and cost of production data from company accounting systems.

Information submitted to government trade authorities must conform to the requisite reporting requirements. Our advisors are highly experienced in presenting the required sales and cost of production data consistent with these reporting requirements. During this process, we rigorously analyze the sales and cost information to ensure that it is verifiable and reconciles with the company’s accounting records.

Our advisors are experts in the current calculation methodologies used by the U.S. Department of Commerce and other government trade authorities. Our programming team utilizes the same SAS software and programs used by the U.S. Department of Commerce to estimate potential antidumping duty liabilities and identify the factors driving the results. This analysis is critical for determining the strategic considerations to pursue. Our analysis scrutinizes all components of the antidumping margin calculation, including the following:

• Differential Pricing
• Arm’s-Length Test
• Below Cost Test
• Product Model Matching
• Quarterly Costing
• Inflation Adjustments

Our programming team also reviews and validates the calculations of the government authority. This analysis is extremely useful for identifying errors made by the government authority and evaluating alternative calculation methodologies that benefit the client.

Our advisors also have experience with country-specific subsidy programs typically investigated by government authorities in countervailing duty proceedings. Based on this in-depth knowledge, we are able to quickly and accurately determine whether alleged subsidy programs are countervailable and estimate the subsidy rate.

We are familiar with all aspects of subsidy rate calculations and the preparation of the underlying information used in the calculations. This includes researching and presenting benchmark analyses concerning allegations of less than adequate remuneration (LTAR), identifying benchmark rates for government loan guarantee programs, and evaluating potential subsidies related to tax and customs duty exemptions.

On-site verification by the government trade authority is a crucial component of trade remedies proceedings. Failure to adequately support the submitted sales and cost of production information with company accounting records can result in the imposition of prohibitively high antidumping or countervailing duties by the government trade authority.

Uno Trade’s advisors have participated in numerous on-site verifications conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce and other government trade authorities. Based on this experience and our accounting expertise, we position companies for success at verification. In addition to being present at the verification, our advisors work with the client before verification to review and prepare the information to be presented to the government authority.

Our advisors have extensive experience researching and calculating surrogate values used in trade remedies proceedings involving non-market economy countries. We have access to proprietary databases used to collect the relevant import statistics and source information. We also rely on our extensive network of working relationships with international trade consultants worldwide to obtain financial statements and other pertinent economic data used in non-market economy dumping margin calculations. Using this information, we identify the surrogate values that significantly impact the antidumping duty and develop recommendations that yield the best results for the client.

Uno Trade provides economic analysis and support in injury proceedings before the U.S. International Trade Commission. We assist companies in completing the relevant questionnaires, aggregating the data submitted by interested parties, and replicating the analysis performed by the U.S. International Trade Commission to develop and support strategies concerning the pertinent injury arguments.

In collaboration with law firms and their clients, Uno Trade develops strategies to minimize antidumping duties. Our experience includes advising companies on pricing practices in the relevant export and domestic markets and creating price monitoring systems structured to provide “real-time” estimates of the potential antidumping duty liability.