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Bernd Janzen

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+1 202.887.4309 bjanzen@akingump.com

Work Department

Partner; International Trade

Position

Bernd Janzen advises clients around the globe across a range of trade litigation proceedings arising under U.S. law. These include AD/CVD and safeguard law, U.S. customs requirements, Section 232 of the U.S. Trade Expansion Act of 1962, and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974. In his practice, he assists corporate and sovereign clients in Canada, China, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Korea and Singapore, navigate duty and penalty risk, and develop litigation strategy geared to current U.S. trade policy. He represents clients in appeals before U.S. courts and international tribunals. Bernd works with clients across multiple industries—including the automotive, building materials, chemicals, energy, softwood lumber, aerospace, seed, tire, paper, steel and consumer electronics industries—taking care to understand the unique challenges each faces in the context of rapidly evolving and complex U.S. and international trade requirements.

To learn more about Bernd, please visit his full profile: https://www.akingump.com/en/lawyers-advisors/bernd-g-janzen.html

Career

Attorney, Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration, 1996 to 2000.

Memberships

District of Columbia Bar Association; New York State Bar Association; American Bar Association, Section of International Law

Education

BA, Bethel College, cum laude; M.I.A., Columbia University; J.D., The George Washington University Law School

Lawyer Rankings

United States > International trade > Trade remedies and trade policy

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Bernd Janzen – Akin

‘Uniquely deep on trade, investment, and national security issues’,  Akin houses a full-service international trade practice that is routinely involved in high-stakes trade remedy litigation and trade policy matters. The Washington DC-based group acts for domestic industries, as well as foreign producers and exporters, in many of the most closely watched cases to come to market. In a highlight example, Matthew Nicely is representing HMTX, and over 100 additional plaintiffs, in the marquee challenge to the US government’s Section 301 tariffs on Chinese goods. In another high-profile case, Bernd Janzen is acting alongside next-generation partner Yujin Kim McNamara to represent the Government of British Columbia in a long-running series of countervailing duty proceedings and managed trade agreements involving US imports of softwood lumber from Canada. Other go-to trade litigators include Stephen Kho, who is a former acting chief counsel on China enforcement at the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR); and Hal Shapiro, who has had several government-side roles, including a stint as Senior Advisor for International Economic Policy at the National Economic Council. At junior level, ‘strong counsel’ Sarah Kirwin is a key name.

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