Profile: Edwin Vermulst
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Law Firm: | Vermulst Verhaeghe & Graafsma |
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| Office: |
Vermulst Verhaeghe & Graafsma Hotel Tassel Paul Emile Jansonstraat 6 B-1000 |
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| City: | Brussels | |
| Country: | Belgium | |
| Tel: | +32 2 542 07 80 | |
| Fax: | +32 2 534 58 88 | |
| Email: | edwin.vermulst@vvg-law.com |
Trade and Customs
Biography: Trade & Customs
Edwin Vermulst has practised international trade and EC law and policy in Washington DC and Brussels since 1985 and is a founding partner of Vermulst Verhaeghe & Graafsma Advocaten. He is a member of the Brussels bar A-list. Mr Vermulst graduated from the University of Utrecht in 1983 and obtained LLM and SJD degrees from the University of Michigan law school in 1984 and 1986.
Mr Vermulst specialises in the representation of multinationals, trade associations, exporters and importers in EC and WTO TDI and customs proceedings, in the recent anti-dumping proceedings involving footwear, DVDs and CD-Rs, citric acid, polyester staple fibres and the steel cases.
Mr Vermulst was a WTO panellist and has been involved in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as a member of the delegation, most recently in 'EC-selected customs matters'. He has authored and co-authored eight books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EC and the US with John Jackson in 1989 and of rules of origin with Jacques Bourgeois and Paul Waer in 1994, and numerous articles. Oxford University Press published his last book on the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement in 2006.
Mr Vermulst is a member of the faculty of the World Trade Institute in Bern and a member of the advisory board of the European Centre for International Political Economy. He is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of World Trade and the Global Trade and Customs Journal.
Mr Vermulst is invariably selected as a top trade practitioner by publications such as Who's Who Legal, Legal 500, Chambers Global and the Rushford Report.
This biography is an extract from The International Who's Who of Trade & Customs Lawyers which can be purchased from our bookstore.
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Recent EC Anti-Dumping Practice Towards China and Vietnam: The Great Leap Backward?
In an astounding reversal of its steady liberalisation of anti-dumping practice towards China and Vietnam, the EC recently denied all requests for ‘market economy treatment’ (MET) from 163 Chinese and 86 Vietnamese exporters involved in Certain Footwear with Leather Uppers. Simultaneously, it also denied all 13 Chinese applications for MET in the (smaller) parallel proceeding Certain Footwear with a Protective Toecap.