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  • Seongpyo KIM

    Consultant / Beijing

  • Tel +86-10-5957-2288

    Email spkim@zhonglun.com

  • Practices

    Trade Compliance & Trade Remedies, Cross-border Investment/M&A, Customs & Import/Export

CV

Seongpyo KIM

Mr. Kim is a seasoned consultant in Trade Compliance & Trade Remedies practices, having represented hundreds of corporate clients in anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigations. With extensive hands-on experience in litigation response, he has represented clients in trade remedy investigations initiated by multiple jurisdictions, including South Korea, Japan, the EU, the United States, India, Turkey, and others. His track record in China–South Korea anti-dumping practice ranks among the industry's top tier.

His Chinese clients include Baoshan Iron & Steel, Anshan Iron & Steel, Benxi Iron & Steel, Baotou Iron & Steel, Nanjing Iron & Steel, Jinxi Iron & Steel, Angang Lianzhong Stainless Steel, Jintian Copper Tube, Nanshan Aluminum, Huayuan Wire Rod, Binhua Group, Kuka Robotics, Lucky Huaguang, Kodak China, Kanghui New Materials, Yantai Jinhe Sodium Hydrosulfite, Hengyi Petrochemical, China Resources Chemical, Tianjin Luhua New Materials, Henghe Materials, Jinhai Chemical, Guangdong Ouwenlai Ceramics, Guangdong Decorative Materials, Guangdong Jiajun Ceramics, Shukang Materials, Dezhou Donghong, Bohai Chemical, Lomon Billions, Suopei Chemical, Asia Pacific Senbo, Hyosung Chemical Fiber, Jinlun Muye, Donghai Muye, AkzoNobel, Yuanyang Pharmaceutical, Hongye Ceramics, Hongtao Ceramics, Jianyi Ceramics, Huvis Sichuan, and POSCO China.

In recent years, his overseas clientele has included numerous well-known multinational corporations, with South Korean companies such as Hynix, LG, SK, Lotte, Daewoo, POSCO, Samsung, BASF Korea, OCI, Kumho, Daesang, as well as Sumitomo, Kirin, and Otsuka, and the French company Hennessey, among others.

Representative Matters

Trade Remedies: Product-Specific Cases (Outbound)

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning hot-rolled carbon or other alloy steel plate

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning hot-rolled products of carbon steel or alloy steel

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning cold-rolled products of carbon steel or alloy steel surface-treated with zinc or zinc-alloys

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning special steel bar products

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning sodium hydroxide (caustic soda) solid

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning stainless steel

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning sodium dithionite products

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning petroleum resin products

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning styrene

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning vertical articulated industrial robots with four axes or more

  • Representation clients in anti-dumping investigation concerning lithographic printing plates

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning plywood

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning ethyl acetate

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning rutile titanium dioxide

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning low-carbon iron wire

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning ceramic tiles

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning uncoated paper

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning polypropylene film (PP film)

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning H-beams (H-section steel)

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning fully drawn yarn (FDY)

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning printing plates

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning copper tubes

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning biaxially oriented polyamide film (BOPA film)

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation and injury defense concerning polyester film (PET film)

  • Represented clients in the anti-circumvention and anti-dumping investigation concerning high tenacity yarns of polyesters

  • Represented clients in the anti-dumping investigation concerning aluminum hydroxide

  • Bar Admissions/Professional Qualifications

    U.S. CPA, 2001

  • Education

    Chungnam National University (South Korea)

  • Professional Experience

    Consultant, Zhong Lun Law Firm, 2012 to present
    Director, Lee International IP & Law Group, 2009-2012
    Managing Director, ITC Beijing Office, 2006-2009
    ITC, 2003-2006
    KPMG, 2001-2003

  • Languages

    Korean
    Chinese
    English