Deming Zhao

Practice Areas

Trade & Customs

Compliance & Risk Control

Shipping

Career

Dr. Zhao has won wide recognition among multinational clients. In the practice of customs & trade compliance (inclusive of export controls and sanctions), Dr. Zhao has advised, represented or defended many renowned multinational companies in connection with export controls and sanctions of different countries, transfer pricing, royalties and valuation consultation, valuation, tariff classification, country of origin, customs survey and inspection, and import & export license. Deming Zhao has also advised, represented and defended many corporate clients in administrative and criminal cases concerning customs audits, ASB investigations and criminal cases with smuggling or other charge. He is also a pioneer who has developed the legal practice of customs & trade compliance in China.

Dr. Zhao advises and trains many clients on export control or economic sanctions and frequently makes speeches on China export control and customs supervision practices at symposiums or seminars in Europe. In 2019, Dr. Zhao was invited by the International Anti-Corruption Academy to lecture on China and US export control practices in Seoul to professional audiences from Asian countries. In an administrative review case, Dr. Zhao successfully defended a multinational client against the export licensing requirement for a given chemical product. In 2020-2021, Dr. Zhao supervise the export control program for a Chinese transnational company covering countries in Asia, America, South America, Europe and Africa . In 2022 & 2023, Dr. Zhao also advises or trains clients on export controls and sanctions and cross-border supply chain matters, which include, among others, those sanctions and import and export controls by different countries against Russia, US export controls over semiconductor items and US import restrictions relevant to China. In 2024, Dr. Zhao advised, represented and successfully defended many corporate clients in customs query, audit, investigation (administrative & criminal) cases on valuation and transfer pricing, tariff code classification, country of origin and bonded operations. In the same year, Mr. Zhao also advised Chinese and foreign clients to tackle risks under Chinese and foreign sanctions and import & export controls and other risks of supply chains by way of compliance measures.

Professional Memberships

Arbitrator, Shanghai Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator, Xiamen Arbitration Commission

Arbitrator, Harbin Arbitration Commission

Chair Professor, An Chen International Law

Adjunct Professor, Shanghai University of International Business and Economics

Publications

Contemporary China Export Control Law, Springer, March 2024, a pioneering monograph in English in the field of Chinese export control law and countermeasures (sanctions).

International Maritime Law, editor-in-chief and main contributor, Peking University Press, 1999.

U.S. Export Controls and Economic Sanctions Exposure of Commercial Arbitration Institutions and Arbitrators in China, co-author, Journal of International Economic Law, Issue 3, 2024.

Study on Economic Sanctions in International Investment Arbitration, co-author, Journal of International Economic Law, Issue 2, 2023.

Commentary on Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law, co-author, Journal of International Economic Law, Issue 1, 2022.

China plant neue Dual-Use-Regulierung, AW-Prax (Germany), 2022, is an article in German on China Draft Dual-use Export Control Regulations.

China: Abwehr ausländischer Sanktionen, AW-Prax (Germany), 2021, an article in German on China Anti-Foreign Sanctions Law.

Trade Compliance im Handel mit China Healthcheck und Selbstauskunft, Der Zoll-Profi! (Germany), 2019, an article in German on the compliance health check and self-disclosure in trades with China.

China’s Current Export Control Scheme and Draft New Law – An Overview, Customs Law Review, Volume VIII, 2019.

China’s Current Export Control Scheme and Draft New Law – An Overview, an article in English, Yearbook of Global Ethics, Compliance & Integrity (Deutscher Fachverlag GmbH), 2018.

Experience

Managing partner, Haoliwen Partners (Haoliwen has consolidated its business into GLOBAL LAW OFFICE as from September 1, 2018);

Senior consultant Hong Kong and Shanghai Offices of PAUL HASTINGS;

Partner, RICHARD WANG & CO.;

Legal Counsel, Greater China Region of EASTMAN KODAK;

Associate Professor of Law, XIAMEN UNIVERSITY (1995).

Languages Spoken

Chinese，English

Education