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Joris specialises in international trade law, general EU and WTO law, customs law and sanctions. He has worked extensively and has in depth expertise in the area of anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards, having successfully represented companies and governments in more than 100 anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings started by the EU, India, Argentina, Brazil and Russia including landmark cases such as Biodiesel, Solar Panels, Tyres for Buses and Lorries, OCTG pipes, WWAN Modems, Herbicides, HRF and PTA.

Joris has been involved in approximately 20 EU Court and WTO dispute settlement proceedings. In recent years, he has successfully represented Kuiburi Fruit Canning Co., Ltd., Zhejiang Xinanchem, PT Ecogreen Oleochemicals, PT Ciliandra Perkasa, PT Pelita Agung Agrindustri and Changmao Biochemical Engineering Co., Ltd. in EU Court proceedings.

In the field of WTO dispute settlement, Joris was co-counsel for Indonesia in EU – Biodiesel (Indonesia) and for Ukraine in Ukraine — Ammonium Nitrate (Russia). He is involved in the WTO proceedings concerning in China — AD/CVD on Wine (Australia).

Joris is co-editor (together with Folkert Graafsma) of the yearly "International Trade Law Review" (published by Law Business Research) and has authored a number of articles on EU trade law.

Joris is listed by Chambers, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal and has been listed as a “Rising Star” in the Legal Media Group’s Rising Stars Guide since 2015. Joris has been praised for his “impressive skills” and “amasses endorsements from respondents with his stellar practice covering anti-dumping, anti-subsidy and safeguards matters” in Who’s Who Legal 2022.  The 2023 edition of Chambers described Joris as "a very committed lawyer [who] likes to think things through and in depth."

English, Dutch and French

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Co-editor (together with Folkert Graafsma) of the yearly "International Trade Law Review" (published by Law Business Research)

Author of a number of articles on EU trade law

S.J.D., The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR   (2005) LL.M. in International Business Law, Kyushu University, Japan  (2001) Master of Laws, KU Leuven, Belgium  (2000) Bachelor of Laws, KU Leuven, Belgium  (1997)

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