Kevin Cai

Cai Kaiming is a senior partner at Beijing Dentons Law Offices. He specialises in international trade remedies, cross-border investment and Competition Law. Mr Cai is a deputy director of Trade Remedy Advisory Committee of China Counsel for the Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and has served as a counsel for China Chamber of Commerce for Import & Export of Machinery and Electronic Products (CCCME) , China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Textile and Apparel (CCCT), and China Chamber of Commerce for Import and Export of Light Industrial Products and Arts-Craftes (CCCLA).

Mr Cai has extensive experience supporting multi-national companies in anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations initiated by Chinese and foreign state authorities. Besides, he also acts for various industry associations.

On December 5, 2014, Turkish Ministry of Economy (TME) initiated a safeguard measure investigation against smart phone exporters. ZTE Corporation, being the largest smart phone exporter, engaged Mr Cai to respond in this case.

On March 4, 2016, TME issued a final decision not taking any safeguard measures against smart phone exporters, being a total success for the ZTE Corporation.

On November 17, 2015, the US Department of Commerce initiated an anti-dumping and countervailing investigation against exporters with respect to certain products from the People’s Republic of China. NOK (Wuxi), one of the major exporters to the US, engaged Mr Cai from lots of candidates to respond this investigation.

On April 4, 2016, US DOC issued the preliminary CVD determination notice deciding preliminary countervailing duty as follows: NOK (Wuxi) received a rate of 2.68%, which is the lowest duty among all the respondents.

Meanwhile Mr Cai also fought for the production exclusion for NOK(Wuxi) and, in July, 2016, the client’s production was successfully excluded – a rare result in the history of U.S. trade remedy cases.