Chris Duncan, Tariff and Customs Of Counsel at Squire Patton Boggs, was recently honored with the “Attorney of the Year” award by the Internet Marketing Association (IMA) at its IMPACT 25 summit. The event convened and celebrated influential leaders driving innovation and policy progress across a range of industries shaping the American economy.
Mr. Duncan represents importers, exporters, manufacturers, warehouses, freight forwarders, customs brokers, and other related entities in the full range of administrative, regulatory and enforcement matters before the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP). He got his start at CBP, where he spent 16 years as a supervisory and senior attorney, most recently serving as the Assistant Chief Counsel in San Francisco as the CBP’s top attorney in the Northern California, Hawaii and Pacific Islands Regions. His other assignments included senior CBP legal positions at U.S. ports of entry in San Diego, Los Angeles and El Paso, Texas, and a detail to the U.S. Department of Justice as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of California.
Mr. Duncan’s practice involves wide-ranging issues including mitigation of tariffs and other trade remedies such as IEEPA, steel/aluminum/copper, auto/truck, and Section 301, customs classification and tariff engineering, valuation, country of origin and marking rules, intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, property seizure and forfeiture, trade compliance, and import requirements administered by CBP and other federal agencies, such as the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He routinely files petitions, protests, and offers in compromise seeking administrative relief, and litigates in federal court, including the Central District of California, the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
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