Tan is a dual-qualified (Washington, D.C. and England & Wales) international trade lawyer with a focus on economic sanctions and export controls, including those promulgated by the U.S. Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), the U.S. Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), as well as by regulatory bodies of the European Union (EU) and United Kingdom (UK).Tan also has extensive experience with U.S. customs issues such as tariffs, actively having taken part in the original U.S. Section 301 litigation.
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Notable Quotes
- 8 May 2025 "Indonesia's Karimun terminal becomes key Russian oil hub, sources say" Reuters
- 14 January 2025 "China slows supply chain shifts by Apple, others as Trump 2.0 looms" Nikkei Asia
- 16 September 2024 "As secondary sanctions net tightens, should we also look closer to home?" WorldECR
- 17 August 2024 "U.S. lawmakers push for clampdown on tariff-dodging Chinese imports" Nikkei Asia
- 5 April 2024 "Turkey’s Trade Boom with Russia Stalls Under Weight of Sanctions" Bloomberg
- 20 May 2024 "UK sanctions watchdog flops in face of Russia’s war" Politico
- 1 November 2023 "Grainy detail: All eyes on the Black Sea Initiative" WorldECR
- 27 September 2023 "Ukraine Black Sea corridor still too risky for most shippers, industry says" Global Trade Review
- 4 September 2023 "Russia ready to restart grain deal if sanctions lifted, Putin tells Erdoğan" Politico
- 28 July 2023 "Russian sanctions to expand to nickel" Mining Journal
- 20 July 2023 "Turkey looks West as it tightens its sanctions enforcement" Euractiv
- 11 July 2023 "Turkey likely to step up enforcement as calls by Russian cargo ships revealed" TradeWinds
- 1 June 2023 "G7 piles pressure on Russia at Hiroshima ‘festival of sanctions’" WorldECR
- 25 May 2023 "Exclusive: From Russia with gold: UAE cashes in as sanctions bite" Reuters
- 2 August 2022 "CHIPS Act leaves chipmakers facing choice between U.S. and China" Nikkei Asia
- 12 December 2021 "Global Britain struggles to get US attention over steel fight" Politico