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International and EU trade law

Founding partner

Edwin Vermulst has practiced international trade and EC law and policy in Washington DC and Brussels since 1985 and is a founding partner of the law firm.

Edwin specializes in the representation of multinationals, trade associations, exporters and importers in EU and WTO TDI and customs proceedings.  He is, among others, the trade counsel of the WFSGI.  He was a WTO Panelist in Mexico – High Fructose Corn Syrup from the US, and has been involved in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as a member of the delegation, most recently in China – AD/CVD on Wine (Australia), Ukraine – Ammonium nitrate, EU – Biodiesel (Indonesia) and EU – Footwear from China. He has (co)-authored nine books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EC and the United States with Professor John Jackson in 1989 and of rules of origin with Jacques Bourgeois and Paul Waer in 1994, and numerous articles. His indispensable books on EU and WTO anti-dumping law and practice were published by Sweet & Maxwell and Oxford University Press in 2010 and 2006 respectively.

Edwin is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade.  He is invariably selected as a leading trade practitioner by publications such as Who’s Who Legal Trade and Customs/now Lexology (trade lawyer of the year for ten years), Chambers and the Legal 500.

English, Dutch, French and German

Member of the Brussels Bar (A-List); Editor-in-Chief Journal of World Trade; Board member Global Trade and Customs Journal; Faculty member World Trade Institute (Bern) and EPLO (Athens), Advisory Board member ECIPE, European Centre for International Political Economy (Brussels).

S.J.D., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA  (1986) (promotor: Prof. John Jackson); LL.M., University of Michigan (Ann Arbor), USA  (1984); Master of Laws, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands  (1983); Bachelor of Laws, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands  (1978)

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