Haiwen & Partners

International Trade and Transactions, Export Controls, Economic Sanctions, Trade Remedy and Barriers Investigations, Customs, International Trade Litigations, WTO

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Shuaiqi Yuan, a partner at Haiwen’s Beijing Office, draws on over a decade of experience counselling and litigating international trade and transactions matters with a particular focus on China and the United States. Shuaiqi advises and represents clients in all aspects of international trade related matters, focuses her practice on U.S. economic sanctions and export controls compliance and counselling, U.S. trade remedy investigations and various proceedings, U.S. Customs issues involving import transactions including entry, classification and valuation, WTO counselling, trade related litigation in the U.S. federal trial and appellate courts and other U.S. regulatory regime counselling and filing. Shuaiqi also maintains in-depth understanding of Anti-Sanction Laws, Export Control Laws, Foreign Relationship Laws in the Chinese legal system, and she provides clients with full-scale legal service on U.S.-China related economic sanctions, export controls and trade barriers matters.

In her economic sanctions and export controls practice, Shuaiqi represents multinational corporation clients on export control and economic sanctions policy and procedures, risk analysis and monitoring, internal audits and trainings, and provided regular counselling and monitoring on legal updates and rapidly changed regulatory regime. On customs matters, Shuaiqi assisted an e-commerce platform to establish overseas compliance frame, and advised global companies on its supply chain resilience, preferential tariff treatment and country of origin under multilateral free trade agreements regime, etc.

Shuaiqi’s training as an investigation attorney also informs her trade remedy practice, where Shuaiqi represented the Section 232 national security investigations icovering sectors of steel, aluminium and automobiles. Shuaiqi also represented MOFCOM, industry associations and companies on several dozens of various trade remedy proceedings, and she has secured victories for clients in both the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Shuaiqi received her LL.B. degree from Shanghai Normal University in 2009. She later received her LL.M. degree from University of Illinois School of Law in 2010, and her J.D. degree from University of Richmond T.C. Williams School of Law in 2013.