Chris Duncan

Mr. Duncan’s practice involves a wide range of customs and international trade issues including tariff classification, 301 tariffs, valuation, country of origin and marking rules, intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, trade compliance, antidumping and countervailing duties, and import requirements administered by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He routinely files petitions, protests, and offers in compromise seeking administrative relief, and litigates in federal court, including in the U.S. of International Trade. Prior to joining the firm, Chris spent 16 years as a supervisory and senior attorney with CBP, most recently serving as the Assistant Chief Counsel, San Francisco, CBP’s top attorney in the Northern California, Hawaii and Pacific Islands Regions.

Bar Admissions

• State of California (July 2000)
• U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (July 2000)
• U.S. Court of Appeals, 9th Circuit (July 2000)
• District of Columbia (April 2002)
• U.S. Court of International Trade (November 2019)

Education

• Georgetown University Law Center, Washington, DC, LL.M., Honors Distinction, International and Comparative Law (May 2002)
• University of Hawaii at Manoa, William S. Richardson School of Law, Honolulu, Hawaii, J.D., Staff Writer, Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal (May 2000)
• Boston College, Boston, Massachusetts, B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Honors Program, Political Science (May 1997)

Publications

• Out of Conformity: China’s Capacity to Implement World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement Body Decisions after Accession, 18 Am. U. Int’l. L. Rev. 399 (2002)
• Reconciling U.S. Regulatory Procedure with the WTO Reformulated Gasoline Decision, in Reconciling Environment and Trade (Edith Brown Weiss & John Howard Jackson eds., 2001)
• The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Amendments: Moral Empiricism or Moral Imperialism?, 1 Asian-Pacific L. & Pol’y J. 14 (2000)

Professional Associations and Memberships

• WIIT (2019)