• Served in UK Department of Trade & Industry during the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations.
• 20 years in private practice including seven years as Chief Economist and Head of EU Trade practice at Mayer Brown Rowe & Maw.
• Particular specialisation in anti-dumping and other trade defence instruments.
• Consultant to Governments including European Commission, UK, Thailand, China and Czech Republic.
• Unique perspective - multidisciplinary experience and advanced analytical skills combining economics, law and policy.
• Author of Global Anti-Dumping Handbook and numerous articles in academic journals.
• Research featured in Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist etc.
• Regularly interviewed on global trade issues on business news channels e.g. CNN, CNBC etc.

Anti-Dumping & other trade defence cases

• Involvement in many anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguard investigations both in the EC and other countries (e.g. South Africa, Brazil, Malaysia).
• Recently, Cliff has been engaged by various law firms and industry associations on some of the most important EU AD investigations including footwear, plastic bags, salmon, sweetcorn, PET, PSF, and coke.
• Analysis of responses to the green paper on EU trade defence instruments for a coalition of EU complainants / petitioners.
• Major study on risk of EU anti-dumping actions on Chinese clothing products for a group of EU retailers and importers.
• Consultant to European Commission on several projects relating to anti-dumping, including major evaluation of EC trade defence instruments (2005).
• Detailed analysis of WTO consistency of various anti-dumping measures (e.g. South African duties on carbonless paper from Belgium, Germany and the UK).
• Training courses and handbooks for business (Czech Republic, Poland, Lithuania, Slovak Republic, Romania).
• Training courses for anti-dumping officials (India, Thailand, UK).

A more detailed list of anti-dumping experience see is available as a PDF file or Word document.

Other trade & market access work

• Involved in a number of WTO disputes including Korea & Chile liquor tax, Canada pharmaceutical patents, Thailand H bars, EU/India GSP, Byrd Amendment, and EU bed linen.
• Assessment of the WTO consistency of EU import duties on rice and preparation of possible WTO case.
• Assessing the WTO consistency of a change in the customs classification of certain types of chicken and advice during WTO dispute settlement proceedings.
• Assessment of the extent to which ACP preferences have nullified benefits expected to be received by non-ACP countries
• Examining the WTO compatibility of the automatic extension of anti-dumping duties and textiles quotas to new EU Member States as a result of enlargement.
• Analysis of share of GSP imports in the context of graduation and special incentive provisions in the EU's GSP.

Customs work

• Advised companies on issues relating to origin of goods, valuation of products for duty purposes, customs classification, administration of textiles quotas, and rules regarding circumvention of anti-dumping duties.
• Major study on the WTO consistency of rice import duties and advice to the Thai Government in their WTO dispute with the EU on the customs classification of salted chicken.
• Adviser in numerous re-negotiations of bound tariffs under Article XXVIII of the GATT 1994
• Project for the European Commission analysing the concept of origin in internationally traded services (during Uruguay Round GATS negotiations).
• Provided strategic counselling to multinational companies on maximising the benefit of tariff preferences under free trade agreements and other preferential trading rules.

Competition work

• Detailed study of relevant markets for satellite telecommunications services.
• Analysis of pricing formulas for indirect mobile phone access.
• Preparation of evidence of excessive pricing relating to intellectual property rights and music.
• Advice and expert report on the impact of international exhaustion of copyright for the UK music industry.
• Economic advice to Vue Cinemas in OFT and CC investigations.