TRADE & REGULATORY ADVISORS - Key Persons
A political economist specialising in Customs and Trade Law, with some 30 years experience in dealing with these matters on behalf of multi-national companies. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost experts in US Export Controls in Europe and was responsible for Compliance Worldwide.
He graduated in Politics, Economics and Statistics and has a post-graduate diploma in Computing and Business Studies. After nearly thirty years dealing with Trade issues on both sides of the Atlantic and with Asia-Pacific countries, he is well placed to interpret European, US and International Export Controls and Customs legislation especially for multinational and High Technology companies.
Alex was for many years Head of Trade and Regulatory Affairs at ICL and Fujitsu-ICL. He also served as Vice President of the US Companies of The Group.
In Brussels, London, International Chamber of Commerce HQ in Paris, and in Europe generally, he is best known for his contributions to the development of Trade Policy and the WTO.
He has been active on these issues and Export Controls in Trade Associations, Conferences and "Think Tanks ".
He is best known in the IT industry world-wide for leading UK, US, Japanese and European High Tech industry in successful opposition to European Anti-Dumping and Customs tariffs on Microcircuits, PCBs and Software and in obtaining suspensions of Customs and Anti-Dumping Duties. His success on these issues has led to multi-million of ECU in Tariff reductions for the High Tech industry.
In Washington DC, he assisted in the development of US Trade Policy on GATT, Tariffs, Export Control including industry representations to USTR and to Congress. He successfully negotiated with the US Departments of Commerce, State and Defence increasingly broad exemptions from the US Export Administration Regulations including a "deminimis rule" and precedent setting exemptions from US embargoes on trade.
He was registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA), for the purposes of influencing changes in US Regulations
Other US issues he covered included:-
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