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William R. "Randy" Rucker is counsel to the firm's Customs and Trade practice. Randy regularly assists clients with all aspects of U.S. Customs law, including the classification and valuation of merchandise, country of origin and marking determinations, quantitative import restraints, duty-preference and savings programs, understanding and receiving the benefits of free trade agreements, compliance audits, enforcement actions and other trade-related matters. Randy frequently conducts training for clients on these trade issues. Additionally, in order to assist clients with their compliance efforts and to satisfy "reasonable care" requirements, he frequently performs reviews of companies' internal operations and procedures in order to ensure compliance with various U.S. statutes and regulations governing international trade.
Randy also assists clients with trade-related matters arising under the jurisdiction of other U.S. government agencies, including the Department of Commerce, the Federal Trade Commission and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Such assistance includes labeling requirements and the interpretation of antidumping orders for the preparation of scope ruling requests or changed circumstances reviews. He has significant experience in preparing submissions, such as formal protests of administrative decisions, requests for administrative rulings and prior disclosures, to U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other U.S. government agencies involved with the importation of goods into the United States. He often appears before these government agencies on behalf of his clients. Finally, Randy represents clients in litigation before the Court of International Trade when administrative actions do not yield the desired results.
In General. Randy received his J.D. degree, with honors, from the John Marshall Law School. While attending law school, he served on the John Marshall Law Review as a staff editor and was also a member of the Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition Team. He received his undergraduate degree in international business from the University of Alabama.
Randy has practiced international trade law in Chicago and Washington, D.C. He is admitted to the state courts of Illinois and Florida, the District of Columbia Court of Appeals, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. | 