Zhu (Judy) Wang

Partner

Los Angeles

+1 213 439 9445

Washington, DC

+1 202 429 6471

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Areas of Work

Trade Remedies, Trade Policy & Negotiations, Anti-Corruption/FCPA, National Security & Cross-Border Transactions

Languages

Mandarin Chinese

Overview

Zhu (Judy) Wang focuses her practice on international trade and investment as well as international regulation and compliance. Judy represents companies across various industries on all aspects of antidumping (AD) and countervailing duty (CVD) proceedings before the US Department of Commerce (DOC), the US International Trade Commission (ITC), and US courts. Judy also counsels clients on trade issues arising out of bilateral and multilateral relationships with various US trading partners to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization (WTO), and customs matters with US Customs and Border Protection.

Judy's international compliance practice covers export controls, sanctions, anti-boycott, CFIUS, and anti-corruption compliance program development and implementation, licensing and advisory opinions, export control jurisdictional and classification analysis, and regulatory policy. She has experience advising on the Export Administration Regulations (EAR), US sanctions regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and, in the anti-corruption area, on the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and other statutes.

Judy is active in Steptoe's pro bono program and has counseled various nongovernmental organizations on compliance with various economic sanctions and exports controls regimes.

California
District of Columbia
US Court of International Trade

J.D., Columbia Law School, 2016, Notes Editor, Columbia Journal of Transnational Law; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar; Richard Paul Richman Leadership Fellow
LL.M., University of Amsterdam, 2016, International Criminal Law
B.A., Vanderbilt University, 2011, Vanderbilt College Scholar; Phi Beta Kappa, Economics

Areas of Work

Representative Matters

Trade Remedies

Achieved a unanimous final negative injury determination from the US International Trade Commission (ITC) in the high-profile US antidumping and countervailing duties (AD/CVD) investigation of Urea Ammonium Nitrate (UAN) from Russia and Trinidad & Tobago.
Represented a coalition of US purchasers of PET resin in an AD investigation of PET resin from Brazil, Indonesia, South Korea, Pakistan and Taiwan that ended with a unanimous negative final injury determination before the ITC. Continued representation of the coalition on appeal at the Court of International Trade and achieved a victory on appeal.
Represented the Government of Canada in the high-profile US AD investigation of 100- to 150-Seat Large Civil Aircraft from Canada. Helped secure a rare unanimous "no injury" determination from the ITC.
Represent the Government of Canada in AD/CVD investigations before the US Department of Commerce (DOC).
Represent a coalition of Vietnamese producers in a rare Section 201 safeguard investigation into quartz surface products.
Represent companies across a wide range of industries in Europe, North America, South America, Middle East, and Asian in AD/CVD investigations before the US DOC.

Trade Policy & Forced Labor

Achieved major UFLPA victories for clients in the solar and transportation sectors, preparing admissibility package and liaising with US Customs and Protection (CBP) to secure release of detained merchandise.
Represented a global container shipping association with regard to USTR's investigation of Chinese shipbuilding practices under Section 301.
Represented a large manufacturer with respect to a USTR request for review of an alleged denial of worker rights under the USMCA's Rapid Response Labor Mechanism (RRLM).
Provided a large manufacturer with a legal analysis of Canadian provincial measures and their consistency with USMCA commitments.

Export Controls & Economic Sanctions

Conducted a global audit of Airbus' commercial and defense-related businesses as part of a monitorship requirement imposed on the company in connection with a consent agreement with the US Department of State, Directorate of Defense Trade Controls to settle allegations of export control violations under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR).
Represent Chinese companies before the Bureau of Industry & Security (BIS) in their effort to be removed from the BIS Entity List and to prevent additional listings by other agencies.
Handle disclosures of companies and individuals, including non-US nationals, in connection with various export control infractions under the Export Administration Regulations (EAR).
Provide US and non-US companies with day-to-day compliance advice and risk assessments for commercial transactions that directly or indirectly involve US sanctions targets, involving all US comprehensive sanctions compliance programs.