As one of the leading PRC antidumping lawyers, Mr. Zhou’s practice in trade remedy and WTO law can be traced to 1997, when the first Chinese anti-dumping investigation was initiated. Mr. Zhou has successfully defended numerous foreign and domestic businesses in more than 200 trade remedy investigations (anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguard as well as 337 investigations) by various global trade authorities including China, the US, the EU, Canada, Australia, India, Turkey, South Korea, Thailand, Indonesia, Egypt, South Africa, Brazil, Argentina, Mexico and other Latin American countries. He has experience across a wide range of industries such as optical fiber communications, automobile, chemicals, pulp and paper, textiles, solar energy, agricultural products, steel and metals and home furniture. Based on his deep understanding of WTO law, Mr. Zhou regularly advises governmental and business clients relating to the WTO, Free Trade Agreements and trade policies.
Mr. Zhou has extensive experience with respect to export control and economic sanctions in major jurisdictions (China, the US and the EU), contracts for the international sale of goods, customs classification, origin, customs valuations and transfer pricing. He communicates with the relevant governmental agencies on behalf of his domestic and foreign clients and provides effective legal solutions.
Mr. Zhou once worked at the headquarter of Bank of China, which gave him insights of corporate & finance, merger and acquisition, bankruptcy and competition law.
Mr. Zhou’s recent publications include: “Guidelines on Cross-border E-commerce in China” and “A Practical Guide to In-house Counsels”. Mr. Zhou was ranked as “leading lawyer” in China by Chambers & Partners and Asia Pacific Legal 500 for his international trade and regulatory expertise. Chambers Asia-Pacific Rankings 2013: “The team (Jun He) is greatly dedicated, and it works with seamless co-ordination. It brings high quality and very satisfactory results in extremely complicated cases.” “Head of the department Zhou Yong is very commercial and specialized – he produces the highest standard of work.”
LL.M., University of International Business and Economics, 1999
Bachelor of Economics, University of International Business and Economics, 1996
Mr. Zhou is a member of the All-China Bar Association and was admitted to practice Chinese law in 1997. He is also a member of the WTO & Anti-dumping Committee (9th), Competition & Anti-monopoly Committee (10th) and Tax Law Committee (11th) of the Beijing Bar Association.
Fluent in English and Mandarin
Chambers Asia-Pacific Rankings 2013