1982.9- 1986.7  Jilin University，Bachelor of Law

Lawyer Guodong Sun,who has been practiced law for 19 years, is currently the head of the Customs Department of Shanghai Landing Law Firm. Lawyer Guodong Sun obtained his bachelor's degree of law at Jilin University from 1982 to 1986, worked in Shenzhen Customs from 1986 to 2001, and began to practice law in 2001. His practice mainly focused on Customs disputes, international trade disputes and intellectual property disputes. In 2005, he established the well-known service website "www.customslawyer.cn" and "www.qgtong.com". In June 2006, the earliest team of customs lawyers in China was established by lawyer Guodong Sun. Also, it was lawyer Guodong Sun who first advocated "China Customs Lawyer" in China. During the course of practice, Guodong Sun has handled many cases as follows: provided IPR Customs protection services for many multinational companies and domestic corporate; provided border protection legal services for many well-known brands, as well as filed infringement lawsuits and solved IPR disputes for them; provided many multinational companies and domestic corporate with legal services such as on tariff planning, tariff disputes, commodity classification disputes, Customs tax investigation,administrative penalties disputes, import-export compliance and cross-border e-commerce. Moreover, Guodong Sun is good at handling mega and difficult smuggling cases, as well as tax evasion reduction. He has also led the team to handle many mega smuggling cases, which involved an amount of 100 million or even 1 billion and have a significant impact in China.

Customs legalaffairs

• Provided legal services on the special inspection of customs patent royalty for a well-known American audio company, and helped the Company pass the customs inspection with professional knowledge;
• Provided legal services on the special inspection of customs royalties for a large-scale Japanese equipment manufacturing company, and thus protected legitimate rights and interests for the Company;Ÿ
• Provided special legal services for a Korean monitor camera lens manufacturing company that was subject to customs inspection due to false commodity code declaration,and thus helped changed the recovery tax levied by the customs (3 years) to supplementary tax (1 year) for the Company;
• Provided special legal services on commodity classification for a Hong Kong sports goods company,standardized its import-export and trade procedures, and thus promoted the Company to develop in an orderly and healthy manner;Ÿ
• Provided legal services for a French Christmas product manufacturing company that was punished by the customs, and thus changed the illegal nature of smuggling to violation for the Company.Ÿ
• 2009-2010:Handled mega electronic product smuggling cases, in which the defense of“smuggling attempt” for litigants was accepted by the court, and the legal rights and interests of the Company were maintained.
• 2014-2018:Led the team to handle series cases of "cotton processing trade smuggling" (investigated and prosecuted by Customs "Green Wind Action"), in which proposed creative legal defense opinions, helped and assisted the judicial department to reduce tax evasion, obtained light sentence and mitigated sentence. The cases help many same or similar cases to be handled in the favor of the defendant party, which allows almost all involved defendants to obtain bail or be sentenced to probation or be exempted from criminal responsibility.
• 2014-2018: Led the team to handle mega cases of agricultural products, stone materials, luxury goods and wastes smuggling, in which the litigants obtained several non-prosecutions, probation and light sentence from perspectives of tax reduction, unit crime, status role, crime constitution, number of involved commodity.
• 2014-2016: Led the team to handle a mega case of false report of chemical commodity classification, in which the defense succeeded with no prosecution after years of investigation, prosecution, and two court trials.
• 2016-2018: Led the team to handle a mega domestic case of rare and endangered animals smuggling, in which several involved litigants obtained no prosecution.
• 2016-2018:Led the team to defend for a large domestic company that engaged in a processing trade smuggling case, in which the tax evasion was reduced more than 90%, and all defendants obtained bail and were sentenced to probation.

Intellectual PropertyŸ

• Handled many customs protection cases for NIKE, DURACELL, GILLETTE, and Procter &Gamble, and some cases were also included in the top ten annual IPR cases of Chinese Customs.

• On China's Commitment to Expand Purchase of U.S. Products and Services in the Next Two Years from the First Phase of the Sino-US Trade Agreement
• Rules of Origin in “Asia-Pacific Trade Agreement” between China and India
• China Import Drug Trade Management System and Tariff Policy
• Several Major Legal Issues on the Conviction and Sentencing in the Fruit Smuggling Case that is Worthy of Noting
• Origin, Solution and Thinking of Administrative Disputes on Commodity Classification between Enterprises and Customs
• On the Deduction in the Three-year Recovery Period from Two Customs Tax Recovery Cases
• Nine Tariff Legal Risks that Foreign Trade Import-Export Enterprises Should Prevent
• On the Objective Elements of Smuggling Behavior from the Case of Mobile Phones Smuggling
• On the Constitution of Smuggling Crimes because of False Commodity Name Declaration from the Ferrosilicon Smuggling Export Case Inspected by Customs
• On the Subjective Intention of Agency Enterprises in Tax Smuggling Cases
• On the Crime Constitution Elements of “China Ant” from Two Tax Smuggling Cases of Smugglers
• On the Proactive Practice and Improvement Space of Chinese Customs in Implementing WTO Commitment from the Application of Quota Rates in Quota Agricultural Products Case
• Lawyers Should Firstly Think about Reducing Tax Evasion in Tax Smuggling Cases, Why?
• Administrative Compulsory Law and Administrative Law Enforcement of Chinese Customs

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