The Export Response Team of Hylands’ International Trade Department Wins for Chinese Enterprises in Numerous High-profile Cases

The export response team of Hylands’ International Trade Department is a professional team that serves Chinese enterprises, resolves trade disputes, and responds to foreign anti-dumping/anti-subsidy/safeguard measures and other investigations of trade measures. Over the past 20 years, they have cooperated with enterprises in China and formed a strong response team. They have won many cases one after another, safeguarding the rights and interests of the enterprises in China to the greatest extent. Major cases won for Chinese enterprises and received great attention from domestic and foreign media in recent years include the following:

Hylands assisted the China government in responding to the US tetrafluoroethane anti-subsidy investigation and the case was finally settled amicably.

Hylands assisted the China government in responding to the Australian anti-subsidy investigation on Chinese deformed steel bars and steel shelving, which was eventually concluded with no anti-subsidy tax imposed.

Hylands assisted the China government in responding to New Zealand’s anti-subsidy investigation on the Chinese deformed steel bar, which eventually concluded that the subsidy was minimal and that no anti-subsidy measures would be implemented.

In the final ruling of the US Department of Commerce on the ‘anti-dumping and countervailing’ investigations of Chinese drill pipe products, Hylands won a zero-tax rate for Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. This was the best result that Chinese enterprises had achieved since the United States carried out the ‘anti-dumping and countervailing’ investigations on China’s steel products. It was also the best result obtained by the large-scale iron and steel enterprises in China in the US ‘anti-dumping and countervailing’ investigations. And also the best result obtained by Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd. in the previous response to ‘anti-dumping and countervailing’ investigations.

In Brazil’s anti-dumping case against China’s galvanized coated steel sheet, Hylands won the case with the result of no damage and no tax for Baoshan Iron & Steel Co. Ltd.

In the EU’s anti-subsidy investigation on bicycles in China, Hylands, acting on behalf of the client, won the case with the result of the plaintiff’s withdrawal of appeal and no tax imposed.

In the first case of the United States’ combined anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation against Chinese products (coated paper), Hylands, together with Sinar Mas Group’s US cooperative law firm, won the case with the result of ‘no harm’ and not ‘subsidized and sold at less than the fair price in the US market’.

In the US’ anti-dumping case against wooden bedroom furniture in China, Hylands won the only zero-tax rate for Markor Group among more than 150 enterprises involved in the case.

In the US anti-dumping case against structural steel (H-beam) of China, Hylands formed a strong response team with Maanshan Iron & Steel Company Limited and successively won the case with a zero-tax rate and no harm.

In the US’s anti-dumping case against diamond saw blades from China and South Korea, the response team formed by the Hylands and Chinese enterprises obtained the lowest tax rate of 2.5% for Antay Technology Group, Beijing Gang Yan Diamond Products Company, and HXF SAW Co. Ltd., which was 4 percentage points lower than the lowest tax rate of South Korean companies, and 18-46 percentage points lower than other Chinese companies involved in the lawsuit. On this basis, the response team further won the case with the result of no harm.

In the final ruling of the 22nd administrative review of the US Department of Commerce’s anti-dumping against tapered roller bearings in China, Hylands obtained the result of a zero-tax rate for Hubei New Torch Science & Technology Co. Ltd., which was a zero-tax rate in the initial ruling.

In the EU’s anti-dumping case against China’s galvanized sheet, Hylands obtained the result of the plaintiff’s withdrawal of the lawsuit and no tax for Changshu Xingdao Advanced Building-material Co. Ltd. and its subordinate enterprises, and Maanshan Iron & Steel Company Limited.

In the EU’s anti-dumping case against persulfate, Hylands obtained market economy status acting on behalf of two clients, among which obtained zero-tax rate for Aijian Degussa (Shanghai) Initiator Co. Ltd.

In the US’s anti-dumping case against China’s brake discs and brake drums, Hylands successively obtained zero-tax rates for several Chinese enterprises including China National Machinery Import and Export Corporation, China AUTO Caiec Ltd. and Longkou TLC Machinery Co. Ltd. in the original investigation and several administrative reviews.

In response to the US anti-dumping new exporter review process, Hylands, in collaboration with US law firms, US importers, and Chinese silicon metal companies, obtained a minimum tax rate of 7.93% for Shanghai JIN NENG International Trade Co. Ltd. and its affiliated Datong Jinneng Industrial Silicon Co. Ltd. Since the United States has maintained a high tax rate of 139.49% on China’s silicon metal products since 1991, the lowest tax rate won this time enabled China’s products to return to the United States market after many years.

In the US’s anti-dumping administrative review of spring washer products, Hylands obtained a zero-tax rate for Hangzhou Spring Washer Co. Ltd.