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- Professionals within Yoon & Yang Customs and Trade Practice Group help you address all legal issues that foreign and domestic export and import companies are grappling with regarding customs and trade, including customs clearance, customs auditing, investigation and verification of origin. Our customs attorneys cumulatively have more than 30 years of hands-on experience in Ministry of Strategy And Finance and Korea Customs Service, and Customhouses provides legal advice suitable to each company’s needs and characteristics.
- Professionals in Yoon & Yang Customs and Trade Practice Group played a major role in adopting international customs and trade law and system into Korea while working in the Ministry of Strategy And Finance and Korea Customs Service. In particular, they led the work of adopting HS system and the new evaluation system (the current WTO Customs Valuation Agreement) in Korea. In addition, they also acted as leaders of the customs trade sector in negotiating the Korea-Singapore FTA and Korea-Japan FTA.
- The importance of companies’ export and import business is growing as Korea became the world’s 8th largest trading country and concluded FTAs with many countries. Despite the benefits of this growth, legal problems regarding customs and trade are frequently encountered by domestic companies and multinational companies in Korea. In addition, there has been a crackdown on various customs offenses that can occur such as violations of Foreign Trade Act or Foreign Exchange Transactions Act. Experts in Yoon & Yang Customs and Trade Practice Group have worked at custom house and Korea Customs Service, giving them experience in leading investigations, including foreign exchange investigations, and enabling them to provide legal service while fully taking into account each company’s unique situation.
- Yoon & Yang Customs and Trade Practice Group jointly performs advisory and investigatory work with Yoon & Yang LLC, which has over 300 attorneys and other professionals. We seek various ways to get to the best result with Yoon & Yang attorneys, who have worked for years in their fields of expertise, including, among others, tax, civil and criminal, intellectual property, and international trade.