Jim Durling joined Heller Ehrman in 2008 and practices international trade law.  Mr. Durling is a member of the Antitrust & Trade Regulation Practice Group.

Experience

Mr. Durling specializes in defending foreign companies in antidumping, countervailing duty and other trade remedy investigations and providing advice on parties’ obligations under World Trade Organization agreements.  Additionally, he has significant experience litigating WTO disputes and trade policy disputes between the United States and foreign parties.

Mr. Durling also handles a wide range of customs matters, including transfer pricing issues, and regularly works with economic experts.  He has a significant practice representing Asian, particularly Japanese and Korean, companies and also has worked with clients in Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, Taiwan, Indonesia and the Philippines.

He has worked with clients on a wide range of high-profile trade policy disputes, including the trade policy battles over automobiles, semiconductors and color film, and has been actively involved in the related WTO proceedings arising out of these trade policy battles.  His recent major matters include defending foreign steel companies in dumping and safeguard actions, prosecuting several WTO challenges to U.S. trade remedies, and coordinating the presentation of complex economic expert testimony.  Mr. Durling also has been called upon to provide advice on launching a new round of WTO trade talks and on negotiating strategies for the round.

Publications

• Anatomy of a Trade Dispute: A Documentary History of the Kodak-Fujifilm Dispute, 2000  mm.dd.yyyy
• “Deference, But Only When Due: WTO Review of Anti-Dumping Measures,” 6 J Intl Econ Law 125, 2003  mm.dd.yyyy
• “Original Meanings and the Film Dispute: The Drafting History, Textual Evolution, and Application of the Non-Violation Nullification of Impairment Remedy,” George Washington Journal of International Law, 1999  mm.dd.yyyy
• “Current Developments Concerning the U.S. Transfer Pricing Tax System and Strategies for Japanese Corporations,” UCLA International Law Journal, 1996  mm.dd.yyyy
• Regularly writes for and frequently speaks at trade association groups in Japan and elsewhere in Asia about U.S. international trade laws, transfer pricing laws, and trade policy issues.  mm.dd.yyyy
• “Out of Focus: The Use of Section 301 to Address Anticompetitive Practices in Foreign Markets,” UCLA International Law Journal, 1996 (co-author)  mm.dd.yyyy
• “International Trade Issues Affecting Japanese Investment in the Newly Industrializing Countries of Asia,” UCLA International Law Journal, 1996  mm.dd.yyyy
• “Using Safeguard Protection to Raise Domestic Rivals’ Costs,” Japan and the World Economy, 2002 (co-author)  mm.dd.yyyy
• “Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks: The Legal Obligation of Non-Attribution and the Need for Economic Rigor in Injury Analysis,” Handbook of International Trade, 2004 (co-author)  mm.dd.yyyy
• Understanding the WTO Antidumping Agreement: Negotiating History and Subsequent Interpretation, 2002 (co-author)  mm.dd.yyyy
• A Business Guide to U.S. Trade Remedy Laws, 2003  mm.dd.yyyy