Government policy and legislation often create challenges for companies involved in the global trade of goods and services. In negotiating multilateral, regional or bilateral trade agreements, revising national laws and regulations, or giving effect to WTO obligations and the rules of bilateral and regional trade agreements, government policy and legislation increasingly will have a profound impact on commodity trade and investment decisions. While the ultimate goal may be a more liberalized trading system, the immediate result is just as likely to be a thicket of rules, procedures and exceptions. This can mean an even more difficult business environment.
SAMUEL BECKFORD offers a specialized services in international trade law, at national, regional and multilateral levels. We advise governments and businesses on both defensive and offensive trade strategies. Its expertise covers all WTO-related areas, such as customs legislation (including rules of origin), trade remedies, agricultural policies, non-tariff barriers to trade (including technical regulations, standards and sanitary and phyto-sanitary measures), subsidies, trade in services, trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights and dispute settlement.
The International Trade Group of SAMUEL BECKFORD helps clients manage the risks and maximize the opportunities associated with the increasing regulation of international trade in goods and services. Our practice, centered inBrussels and theCaribbean, provides a range of services designed to match the scope of global trade regulation and to answer the needs of our clients wherever and whenever they arise.