Jeremy Dutra is a partner in the International Trade & Foreign Investment Practice Group. He advises importers, US manufacturers and foreign producers and exporters on every stage of the import process, from pre-entry planning and compliance through administrative proceedings and appeals. Because his practice spans US Customs & Border Protection (CBP), the US Department of Commerce, the US International Trade Commission (USITC) and the federal courts, clients can rely on a single advisor for issues that often cross agency lines.
On the customs side, Jeremy represents clients before CBP across the full range of import matters. He obtains advance binding rulings on tariff classification, country of origin and valuation, and he prepares and prosecutes protests challenging CBP’s liquidation decisions. He guides clients through CBP audits, from the initial entrance conference through findings and corrective action, and he petitions for relief from liquidated damages and penalties. He also counsels importers on origin and tariff exposure under Section 232, Section 301 and International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA), including tariff refund recovery and on preferential treatment under the USMCA. In addition, he defends importers in Enforce and Protect Act (EAPA) evasion investigations.
Jeremy also represents foreign producers, US importers and other interested parties in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings. This work includes original investigations and sunset reviews before Commerce and the USITC, as well as administrative reviews before Commerce. He also handles scope rulings at the US Department of Commerce (Commerce), helping clients determine whether their products fall within an existing order and advocating for favorable scope determinations.
Jeremy litigates trade and customs disputes before the US Court of International Trade and the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. These cases include challenges to Commerce antidumping and countervailing duty determinations and scope rulings, USITC injury determinations, CBP evasion determinations and denied protests. He has also represented parties in Section 337 unfair import investigations before the USITC.
Jeremy’s trade practice is complemented by substantial experience in government contracts. He advises clients on teaming agreements and subcontracts, flow-down obligations, bid protests before the Court of Federal Claims and US Government Accountability Office (GAO), as well as internal audits and investigations.
Jeremy regularly advises manufacturers, suppliers and government contractors on compliance with domestic preference and trade agreement requirements. These include the Build America, Buy America Act (BABA), the Buy American Act, the Buy America requirements for federally funded transportation and infrastructure programs and the Trade Agreements Act (TAA). His customs practice gives him a distinct advantage in this work. The country-of-origin and substantial transformation principles he applies daily before CBP are the same principles that decide whether a product qualifies as domestic, or as a designated country end product. Drawing on that experience, Jeremy counsels clients on domestic sourcing strategy and evaluates whether their products and components meet applicable domestic content thresholds under both existing supply chains and proposed sourcing or manufacturing changes. He also helps clients understand how changes in suppliers, manufacturing locations or production processes affect their eligibility for federal contracts and federally funded projects. Where useful, he obtains CBP final determinations on origin for government procurement purposes. He also helps clients structure compliance programs, certifications and supplier documentation to reduce the risk of bid protests, False Claims Act exposure and contract disputes.
Earlier in his career, Jeremy built a broad litigation practice in federal and state courts, handling intellectual property, antitrust and complex commercial disputes. That experience continues to inform his approach to contested trade proceedings.