Bernard O’Connor
Trade Lawyer, NCTM
Bernard O’Connor manages the Brussels office of NCTM, a law firm with offices in Milan, Verona, Rome, London, and Shanghai. His areas of work are EU and WTO law, subsidies, food, agriculture, geographical indications, competition, and litigation. The following is from February 24, 2016, testimony before a U.S.–China Economic and Security Review Commission hearing on “China’s Shifting Economic Realities and Implications for the United States.” China is clearly defined as a non-market economy (NME) in EU law. Article 2(7) of the basic Anti-Dumping Regulation (Regulation 1225/2009) allows the use of the analog country methodology for determining normal value for NMEs. If the…
