About Cyndee
China Experience/BRIC Experience
Cyndee provides advice on doing business in Canada to companies in emerging markets, such as China, India, Brazil and Mexico. She represented the Government of China, Chinese Associations and/or exporters in the three of the first four anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases against China (outdoor barbeques, carbon steel and stainless steel fasteners and copper pipe fittings) and the first China specific safeguard case initiated by Canada against outdoor barbeques from China. She also participated in the successful representation of a coalition of importers, retailers and distributors in a China-specific safeguard case that was filed but never initiated against residential furniture from China. In addition, she represented the Government of China, Chinese Associations and exporters in the recent global safeguard case against the import of bicycles and bicycle frames.
Cyndee has represented the China Chamber of Commerce for Foodstuffs, Native Produce and Animal By-Products in the anti-dumping cases against garlic from China. Cyndee also represented a major user of grain corn in the anti-dumping and countervailing duty case in Canada against U.S. grain corn. Cyndee represented an importer of bicycles in an expiry review regarding the AD Order against bicycles from China and Chinese Taipei. Cyndee further represented a Canadian domestic steel producer in anti-dumping cases from numerous countries.
Cyndee also provides advice to Canadian companies doing business in China and/or with Chinese companies. She places an emphasis on risk management while assisting clients in pursuing opportunities in China to reduce their exposure to global threats and to protect company assets. She has provided advice to both large and small companies about the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights in China. She assists clients in undertaking due diligence prior to entering into business relationships in China (including business partners, joint ventures, customers, suppliers and acquisitions), and provides advice on intellectual property rights protection, tariff classification and all aspects of customs law, including Canada's purchaser in Canada rules, royalties, calculation of value for duty and other customs issues. Cyndee has assisted companies in negotiating joint venture agreements, licensing agreements and asset sharing agreements with Chinese counter-parts.
Cyndee also provides advice to Canadian companies on intellectual property rights protection in foreign jurisdictions. Cyndee has been asked by the Canada' Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade to conduct training courses for provincial governments on intellectual property rights protection in emerging markets and has been asked by the Canadian Embassy in Beijing and the Ontario Purchasers Managers Association (Ontario) to give presentations on typical problems Canadian businesses experience when dealing with persons in foreign markets and how to protect one's intellectual property when selling into foreign markets and even in one's one market. Cyndee has written about intellectual property rights protection under international treaties and free trade agreements.
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