Chris Duncan

Chris is an experienced customs and international trade law specialist in its Los Angeles office for its International Trade & Foreign Investment practice group

Chris got his start at the US Customs and Border Protection (CBP), where he spent 16 years as a supervisory and senior attorney, most recently serving as the Assistant Chief Counsel in San Francisco as the CBP’s top attorney in the Northern California, Hawaii and Pacific Islands Regions. His other assignments included senior CBP legal positions in San Diego, Los Angeles and El Paso, Texas, and a detail to the U.S. Department of Justice as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney.

Chris represents importers and exporters in the full range of administrative, regulatory and enforcement matters before the Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP).

His practice involves wide ranging issues including tariff classification, 301 tariffs, valuation, country of origin and marking rules, intellectual property rights protection and enforcement, trade compliance, and import requirements administered by CBP and other federal agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). He routinely files petitions, protests, and offers in compromise seeking administrative relief, and litigates in federal court, including in the U.S. Court of International Trade.