On April 2, 2025, China Business Law Journal released the "Outstanding Transactions of the Year" list. With outstanding significance, complexity, and innovation, Gaopeng Law Firm was honored to handle four heavyweight transaction cases, achieving new success.

Gaopeng's handling of 4 transaction cases has been selected as the "Outstanding Transactions of the Year" by the Commercial Law in 2024

Award · Case Study

Changzhou electric balance skateboard enterprise passes US 337 investigation

Legal Advisor: Gaopeng Law Firm represents Changzhou Tongde Electric, Shengmaiou Automotive Industry, and Gaia Technology

Lead lawyers: Xie Xiangyang, Qian Wenjie

Key points review:

In the 337 investigation of self balancing electric skateboards in the United States, the plaintiff accused the Chinese defendant's products of infringing on their patents and attempted to restrict Chinese products from leaving the United States through a temporary injunction. After nearly three months of defense from our side, on March 14, 2024, a judge from the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) approved the plaintiff, Future Motion, to withdraw its charges against Changzhou Shengmaiou Automotive Industry and Changzhou Gaia Material Technology, terminate the "337 Investigation" procedure against Changzhou enterprises, and remove the obstacles to their exit from the United States.

After ITC launched an investigation in January 2024, the plaintiff applied for multiple temporary injunctions in an attempt to quickly block Chinese product exports to the United States. Chinese enterprises actively responded to the lawsuit and submitted a large amount of prior technical literature and expert testimony within the prescribed time limit, proving the invalidity of the patent in question and forcing the plaintiff to withdraw the lawsuit voluntarily. In the "337 investigations" conducted by ITC in the past decade, the winning rate of Chinese companies was only 12%. The successful termination of the investigation within 100 days demonstrates the professionalism and strategic approach of Chinese enterprises in dealing with cross-border intellectual property disputes.

Chinese soft magnetic ferrite enterprises receive zero tax rate

Legal Advisor: Gaopeng Law Firm represents Hengdian Group Dongci Co., Ltd. and Yibin Jinchuan Electronics

Lead lawyers: Qian Wenjie, Dai Ke

Key points review:

The Indian Ministry of Commerce and Industry has made a final ruling on the anti-dumping investigation of Chinese soft magnetic ferrite cores, imposing a five-year anti-dumping duty on the products involved. Among them, Hengdian Group Dongci Co., Ltd. and Yibin Jinchuan Electronics obtained zero tax rate, while the tax rate for other responding enterprises was 31%, and the tax rate for non responding enterprises was 35%.

Since the filing, the two companies have responded to four rounds of emergency supplementary questionnaires and rigorous document review by the Indian side with the assistance of law firms, completing massive document submissions in a short period of time and pointing out data errors from the investigating authorities. In the end, the Indian investigative agency adopted the domestic sales price data submitted by the two companies, calculated a negative 50% dumping margin, and obtained a zero tax rate.

Yingke Medical receives the lowest tax rate in Brazil

Legal Advisor: Gaopeng Law Firm represents Yingke Medical

Lead lawyers: Jiang Liyong, Sun Zhen, Dai Ke, Qin Yi, Yao Mingyue

Key points review:

The Brazilian Foreign Trade Commission has made a final ruling on the anti-dumping case of non-surgical latex and PVC gloves originating from China, Malaysia, and Thailand. As one of the mandatory litigation companies in China, Yingke Medical received a specific tax rate of 3.9 US dollars per thousand units, which is the lowest tax rate in China and the second lowest in the world. This ruling provides important support for Yingke Medical to continue maintaining its competitiveness in the Brazilian market.

This case involves Yingke Medical and multiple affiliated enterprises, with complex trade processes and a wide scope of investigation. It also requires completing questionnaire responses in a short period of time and undergoing long-term on-site verification. During the litigation process, the company actively defended multiple core issues such as product classification, dumping margin, and damage margin, and successfully reduced the tax rate in the final ruling.

Shandong Tongsheng receives low tax rate in South African anti-dumping investigation

Legal Advisor: Gaopeng Law Firm represents Shandong Tongsheng Composite Materials Company

Lead lawyers: Qian Wenjie, Dai Ke, Yao Mingyue

Key points review:

The International Trade Commission (ITAC) of South Africa, on behalf of the Southern African Union, has initiated an anti-dumping investigation into galvanized steel products imported from China. Shandong Tongsheng Composite Materials Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as "Shandong Tongsheng") actively responded to the lawsuit and ultimately obtained the lowest national tax rate of 5.61% in the final ruling on February 16, 2024, significantly lower than the anti-dumping tax rate of 53.84% for other enterprises, helping the company successfully expand its market share in South Africa.

Shandong Tongsheng submitted an investigation response during the initial stage of filing, but ITAC initially imposed a temporary anti-dumping duty of 35.9% on Chinese products on the grounds of incomplete response. Gaopeng raised the core defense of data calculation errors by analyzing ITAC's dumping margin calculation method, combined with WTO rules and South African domestic law, and promoted investigators to conduct on-site verification of the company's export data. In the end, ITAC adopted the real data of the enterprise and revised the tax rate, striving for the lowest national tax rate for Shandong Tongsheng.

Selection criteria: Based on continuous tracking and independent analysis of the market, Business Law selected 263 outstanding transactions and cases that have emerged in the past year from thousands of applications. The core evaluation dimensions include transaction scale, industry influence, innovative transaction structure, leading judicial judgment, and social value contribution.

As a leading legal journal in Asia, Business Law magazine focuses on providing professional business law information for corporate law, lawyers, and other high-end legal and business professionals in the Asia Pacific region. It has a wide influence in the field of Chinese commercial law. The "Outstanding Transaction of the Year" is a heavyweight annual award of the Commercial Law, which is selected from a vast amount of application materials based on strict review requirements and professional evaluation system, taking into account various factors such as the importance, complexity, innovation, and transaction scale of each project. It has representativeness, guidance, and authority.

Since 2010, Gaopeng Law Firm has been continuously selected as the "Best Law Firm of the Year in International Trade Law" by the Commercial Law Journal. The cases handled and the lead lawyers won the "Outstanding Transaction Award of the Year" and "The A-List Legal Elite" respectively. This inclusion in the list is not only a recognition of Gao Peng's development in the legal service market, but also an encouragement and impetus for Gao Peng's future development. In the future, Gaopeng will continue to adhere to the concept of "people are upright and business is refined", and give back to customers with excellent and efficient legal services.