Core Solutions
Explore our tailored services to address trade remedy investigations and compliance challenges.
Solving Trade Challenges
Antidumping and countervailing duty investigations can overwhelm businesses with complexity, strict deadlines, and significant financial stakes. Common challenges include reconciling sales and cost data to meet agency requirements, navigating evolving trade regulations, and mitigating duty liabilities that strain resources.
CBIZ resolves these issues with tailored solutions:
- Comprehensive transaction-specific sales and product cost data preparation to meet stringent reporting requirements.
- Strategic guidance on minimizing duty liabilities through accurate data reconciliation and proactive compliance systems.
- Support throughout the investigation process, including verification, financial modeling, and long-term compliance strategies.
With CBIZ, businesses can protect their interests in global trade while achieving compliance with confidence.
Supporting Respondents & Petitioners
Engagements on Behalf of Respondents
Our specialized accounting and computer consultants assist in preparing transaction-specific sales and product-specific cost data for submission to Commerce, the European Commission, or other authorities involved in antidumping investigations. Often, the required data is not in an acceptable format. CBIZ supports clients and legal counsel throughout the submission process to ensure timely and accurate responses that comply with stringent reporting requirements and tight deadlines. Our services include:
- Planning and setting up project teams, including coordinating multiple company sites.
- Providing technical assistance in accounting, information systems, and financial and economic analyses from our in-house and onsite computing facilities.
- Identifying alternative means of quantifying price adjustments and production costs that allow data to be presented in the most favorable manner within the agency’s practice and regulations.
- Reconciling sales and cost data to the company’s financial statements.
- Preparing for successful verification of the data.
- Providing continued post-submission support.
- Defining and implementing price monitoring systems to mitigate clients’ duties in future proceedings.
CBIZ works with counsel and the respondent company to prepare the financial and cost reconciliations required by the relevant governmental agency. Using analytical programming, coupled with our expertise, we can respond quickly and provide in-depth analysis.
Engagements on Behalf of Petitioners
CBIZ’s extensive experience in antidumping cases and our deep analytical skills enable us to assist law firms as counsel to petitioners. We work directly with the petitioner’s and respondent’s confidential data at our secure in-house computing facility to compile sales and cost data for the preparation of petitions and in analyzing the data submitted by the respondent during the course of an investigation.
In assisting counsel to petitioners, ITR can:
- Prepare antidumping and countervailing duty analyses in support of a petition.
- Collect and analyze the cost of production and sales data to support an allegation of below-cost sales in petitions.
- Analyze responses submitted by the respondents to identify computational errors and check for internal consistency.
- Analyze sales and cost adjustment factors for compliance with regulations and compare narrative responses to the data submitted electronically to the government.
- Develop alternative product matching methodologies, level of trade comparisons, and sales and cost adjustment factors.
- Calculate margins under different scenarios.
