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PAUL VANDEVERT
International Trade Attorney
Ford Motor Company

 

Paul Vandevert has been the International Trade Attorney for Ford Motor Company since 2000.  In this position he has been responsible for a wide variety of international trade and Customs related matters for Ford around the world, including managing a Customs audit in Norway, structuring duty-efficient transactions in South Africa, appearing before the WTO Committee on Non-Preferential Rules of Origin on behalf of the US automotive industry, managing Ford's participation as an industrial consumer in the Hot-Rolled and Corrosion Resistant Steel Sunset Reviews before the US International Trade Commission, as well as managing Ford's defense in an US Customs penalty case involving recordkeeping.  Prior to joining Ford, Paul was International Trade Counsel at Delphi Automotive Systems Corp from Delphi's spin-off from General Motors in 1999 and prior to that, he was an attorney with General Motors, also responsible for global international trade and Customs matters from 1994.  Paul began his career as an international trade and Customs lawyer in 1987 with the law firm of Soller, Shayne and Horn in New York City.

Paul earned an A.B. in Comparative Literature at Columbia University (1981) and a J.D. from Case Western Reserve University Law School (1987).  He has been admitted to practice in the states of Ohio (1987), Connecticut (1989), New York (1991) and Michigan (2000).  In addition, he is a member of the bars of U.S. Court of International Trade, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the federal district courts of the Northern District of Ohio, the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York and the Eastern District of Michigan.  Paul is a member of the Customs Committee and International Law Section of the American Bar Association, the International Law Section of the Michigan State Bar Association, and the Court of International Trade Bar Association (CITBA).

Paul has written several articles on international trade and customs issues, including a comment for the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law entitled " The Uruguay Round and the World Trade Organization: A New Era Dawns in The Private Law of International Customs And Trade" (Winter 1999) and has spoken at numerous conferences and workshops on various aspects of Customs law.  Paul is currently a member the Legal/Policy Committee of the Trade Support Network, which is working with the U.S. Customs Service to develop and implement the Automated Customs Environment (ACE).  Paul has completed the Customs Valuation and Customs Valuation & Transfer Pricing Workshops, sponsored by the World Customs Organization in Brussels.

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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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