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Experience: Cliff Stevenson is one of the world's leading experts on anti-dumping and has almost twenty years experience of working in the area of trade defence instruments (trade remedies). His experience includes time at the UK Department of Trade and Industry, many years of private practice, and lecturing.   In 2006/2007 he has been involved in many of the most important EU anti-dumping cases including footwear, plastic bags, salmon, sweetcorn and coke.  He has also undertaken a survey of EU stakeholders (complainants, importers, users etc) for EU retailers in the context of the EU's review of anti-dumping and other trade defence instruments.  Cliff's original research and comments on anti-dumping have been featured in various top publications during 2006 & 2007 including the Financial Times and the Economist.

Services: Expert, independent consultancy on issues relating to anti-dumping, anti-subsidy (countervailing duties), and safeguards. Also offering consultancy services on more general trade, market access and competition issues.

Unique: Cliff Stevenson Consulting principally focuses on the law, economics and policy of trade defence instruments. With a professional economics background, Cliff is particularly strong in the most complex aspects of anti-dumping and other trade defence cases (e.g. dumping calculations, injury analyses etc.).

Flexible: Cliff is flexible as to the way in which he works. Many of his clients are law firms that bring him in to provide specialist economic support in anti-dumping investigations affecting their clients. Governments use him to train their officials and provide expert evaluations or studies. Businesses use Cliff to support their in-house counsel in anti-dumping investigations and to design strategies to avoid anti-dumping problems.

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Iain MacVay, Partner & Head of International Trade Practice, Steptoe & Johnson, London.