On November 16, 2023, the well-known legal media "The Legal 500" released the list of the 2024 Asia Pacific: China. Zhong Yin Law Firm, with its strong comprehensive strength and outstanding performance in the professional area, was selected for the "WTO/International Trade" list; Zhong Yin Law Firm, Nanjing Office was selected as one of Firms to watch in the "Jiangsu Province: Nanjing" due to its outstanding performance in the fields of finance, securities, and corporate risk management.

[International trade]

Zhong Yin Law Firm is one of the first law firms in China in advising on international cases. Zhong Yin lawyers have profound professional qualities and rich practical experience in the fields of international trade, trade remedy, WTO, South Korea-related legal business, international energy and engineering, international investment, merger and acquisition, international finance, foreign-related litigation and arbitration, international IP and maritime & admiralty affairs, etc. They can provide clients with comprehensive legal services in multiple languages.

Zhong Yin Trade Remedy and WTO Legal Service Center is staffed with a team of lawyers and accountants with rich theoretical achievements, extensive practical experience, and excellent representation performance, and their practice areas include anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguards, WTO negotiations and dispute resolution, trade barrier investigations, investment measures associated with trade, service trade, customs laws, and so forth. The service spectrum of Zhong Yin lawyers covers each stage of the anti-dumping process, including response to and appeal against the original investigations, administrative review in various types, judicial review, as well as tax assessment and tax reimbursement. Since 2004, the Center has assisted over 300 Chinese export enterprises in nearly 200 foreign anti-dumping and countervailing cases against China, and has obtained good results of zero tax rate or the lowest national tax rate for many times. The purpose of the Center is to make good use of the domestic laws of each country concerned and the WTO rules to safeguard the free trade rights of the country and the enterprises, protect the legitimate rights of the clients, take the needs of the enterprises as its own for creating a world-class brand in trade remedy and WTO legal services.

Recommendations from clients

“Zhong Yin International Trade Group is familiar with the procedures and key points of international trade remedy measures, and is particularly good at dealing with trade remedy investigations of pharmaceutical products.”

“The lawyer Jia Zheng has rich experience and outstanding performance in responding to lawsuits.”

Work highlights

Represented Jiangsu Asia-Pacific Light Alloy Technology Co., Ltd. to participate in the anti-dumping investigation initiated by Thailand concerning aluminum extrusions originating in or exported from China.

Represented CCCME as well as its two members Chunju and Midea to make a non-injury defence in the anti-dumping investigation initiated by Argentina concerning vacuum cleaners originating in China.

[Zhong Yin Law Firm]

Founded in January 1993, Zhong Yin is one of the earliest law firms in the form of partnership approved by the Ministry of Justice in China. It is headquartered in Beijing and currently has branch offices in 38 Mainland cities including Shanghai, Tianjin, Shenzhen, Hangzhou, Xi'an and other cites (including the branches established and such in preparation), and established its association law firm with Hong Kong and Macao law firms, ZLF Law Office, which is China’s first, as well as its Qianhai branch. It has more than 3,200 lawyers and staff members, including nearly 2,300 lawyers.

[The Legal 500]

The Legal 500 has been founded for more than 30 years, is a world-renowned authoritative legal rating agency, and ranks and recommends law firms and lawyers in more than 150 jurisdictions around the world every year. The Legal 500 makes rankings and recommendations based on application dossiers submitted by law firms, interviews with lawyers, feedback from 300,000 clients around the world, and market observations by professional research teams.