Education

University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, S.J.D. (1986) 
University of Michigan Law School, Ann Arbor, LL.M. (1984)
University of Utrecht, JD (1983)

Expertise

Mr. Vermulst specializes in the representation of multinationals, trade associations, exporters and importers in EC, third country and WTO TDI and customs proceedings, for example, in the recent anti-dumping proceedings involving Footwear, Steel, Silicon metal, Citric acid, Bags, Ironing boards and Polyester staple fibres. He was a WTO Panellist in Mexico-High Fructose Corn Syrup from the US, and has been involved in WTO dispute settlement proceedings as a member of the delegation, most recently in EC-Certain customs matters.  He has been involved in landmark court cases involving the EU cap and trade system and advises trade associations and companies on EU environmental and other regulatory issues.

Publications

Mr. Vermulst has (co-)authored eight books, including landmark comparative analyses of the anti-dumping systems of Australia, Canada, the EC and the United States with Professor John Jackson in 1989 and of rules of origin with Jacques Bourgeois and Paul Waer in 1994, and numerous articles.   His latest book on the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement was published by Oxford University Press in 2007. The publications listed at the bottom of this page can be downloaded.

He is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of World Trade and the  Global Trade and Customs Journal and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Legal Issues of European Integration.

Honours

Mr. Vermulst is invariably selected as a leading trade practitioner by publications such as Who’s Who in Trade, Chambers Global, Legal 500, Euromoney and the Rushford Report.

Mr Vermulst has been invited as a guest speaker on many occasions.

Teaching

He is a Member of the Faculty of the World Trade Institute in Bern and of the IELPO program in Barcelona and a member of the Board of ECIPE, the European Centre for International Political Economy.  

Download some of his publications here

• 10 Major Problems With the Anti-Dumping Instrument
• Adopting and Implementing Anti-Dumping Laws
• Disclosure of Confidential Information in Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings Under U.S. Law
• EC Customs Classification Rules Should Ice-cream Melt
• EC Dumping and Injury Margin Calculation Methods
• Injury in Anti-Dumping Proceedings
• Recent EC Safeguards Policy Kill Them All and Let God Sort Them Out
• Rules of Origin as Commercial Policy Instruments
• The Anti-Absorption Provision in EC Anti-Dumping Law
• WTO Dispute settlement with respect to Trade Contingency measures-Selected Issues
• Zeroing in on zeroing
• Zeroing Under the WTO Anti-Dumping Agreement

 Contact

E-mail:edwin.vermulst@vvgb-law.com