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Daniel Moulis is internationally recognised as an expert trade law advisor. He has been called upon by the World Trade Organisation as a Dispute Settlement Body panellist on numerous occasions.
Daniel has had an active involvement for clients in relation to policies, laws and business practices in international trade. This extends to regulatory impacts on investment, procurement, and business generally. In that context he has advised clients in contracting matters, dispute resolution and statutory and administrative law rights. His international clients have included companies from chemical, agricultural, paper, building products, medical, minerals, food processing, footwear and consumer goods industries. His has handled large scale procurement contracts, foreign investment, and international affairs and policy development.
Daniel has been particularly active in the fields of anti-dumping, countervailing, safeguard measures, quarantine and intellectual property rights. He has advised clients in relation to assistance measures, customs tariff, tariff concession orders, effective transaction structuring, export/import, country of origin and trade agreements. He has argued cases in the Productivity Commission, the Anti-Dumping Review Panel, the Federal and High Courts of Australia, and the European Court of Justice. He has been involved in many of the most important trade law cases in Australia, has extensive speaking engagements and is widely published.
His trade law related positions and memberships include former Chair, Trade and Customs Law Committee of the International Bar Association; ten-time WTO Dispute Settlement Understanding panellist; and lecturer, International Development Law Organisation. He is a listed arbitrator under the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement between Canada and the EU, and under the Economic Partnership Agreement between the EU and the Southern Africa Development Community.
