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DAVE HAMILL
Partner
Arent Fox LLP,
Washington, D.C.

 

Dave Hamill focuses on international , customs trade policy and disputes, and export controls and sanctions issues. Dave has represented Fortune 500 companies whose imports and exports are regulated by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (CBP). His experience includes assisting companies with customs audits, including focused assessments,importer self-assessments and NAFTA verifications. His client work covers the wide range of commercial enforcement laws and policies that DHS ad CBP administer, which include the following: duty preference programs such as NAFTA; tariff classification; valuation; entry procedures; custom brokerage; country of origin marking; bind rulings; anti-terrorism and border protection (e.g. the Customs- Trade Partnership Against Terrorism (C-TPAT), the Bioterrorism Act (BTA) regulations, and the new advance manifest requirements); export controls and sanctions; voluntary disclosures; seizures and forfeitures, fraud and strategic investigations; and civil and criminal penalties.

Before joining Arent Fox, Dave served from1991-2000 as a senior counsel and attorney-advisor at the US Department of the Treasury. During his tenure at the Treasury Department, he served as the chief legal advisor to the US chair of the NAFTA Rules of Origin Working Group, where he represented the United States at the trilateral NAFTA Working Group meetings convened to monitor the implementation and administration of the NAFTA concerning rules of origin, country of origin marking, and custom administration. In addition, he served as a legal advisor to Treasury's Commercial Operations Advisory Committee of the Customs Service (COAC), where he worked to resolve various issues between the private sector representatives and the government. Dave also represented the Treasury Department at the Negotiating Group on Market Access meeting convened under the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA).

Dave has spoken at various industry and client conferences on customs and trade matters, and recently co-authored an article on C-TPAT for the Canadian International Lawyer. While attending law school at Georgetown University he served is associate editor for the Tax Lawyer.

 

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2007 CUSLI Annual Conference Comparative Legal Aspects of Entrepreneurship in Canada and the United States was held April 13-14, 2007.

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