SHAO Dan

Senior partner

Tel. | 400-920-5560
Email | shao.dan@botuolaw.com

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Areas of expertise

International trade

Working languages

Chinese/English

Working experience

In 2005, Shao began to enter the customs system. Shao once served as a public lawyer with Shanghai Customs, proficient in various customs businesses and has nearly 20 years of working experience in customs and lawyer. Shao is good at handling all kinds of major, difficult and complex international trade dispute cases, and can provide customized legal services for customs and international trade. Shao has successfully handled a number of major international trade disputes influential at home and abroad, and has made the international trade business flow of such enterprises safer and more compliant and efficient, as well as reduced various risks faced by the enterprises in the cross-border business. Shao serves as the director of Customs Law Research Association of Shanghai Law Association and the deputy director of International Trade Business Research Committee of Shanghai Municipal Bar Association. Shao has ever been invited to carry out academic exchanges with authoritative institutions such as the Customs Law Research Association, Shanghai Bar Association, Zhejiang Bar Association, Jiangsu Bar Association, Anhui Bar Association, Shanghai Customs Declaration Association and has published more than 10 works in authoritative institutions such as Law Press, CIIE, Customs Law Research Association, and Shanghai Bar Association.

Typical cases

Providing compliance and legal advice for a global chemical giant for its import of food and agricultural products from Japan to avoid possible administrative and criminal risks
Serving as an attorney agent for an international goods sales contract dispute case between an overseas company and a domestic company, where the requests of the other party were all rejected by the arbitration tribunal, while the client’s counter-claim was supported by the arbitration tribunal
Serving as an attorney agent for an international goods sales contract dispute case between an overseas company and a domestic company, where the client’s request was supported by the arbitration tribunal
Providing compliance and legal advice for a foreign-owned processing and trade company on the unit consumption and write-off of incoming material processing and trade and communicating with the competent customs on behalf of the company to dissolve possible administrative penalties
Providing legal service for the exported goods of a Yunnan company being detained by the customs due to suspected infringement upon the right of a famous Japanese electrical appliance brand, and five days later, the goods was released by the customs
Coordinating with the customs special inspection on the price declaration issue of imported latex mattress from a Southeast Asian country on behalf of a Shanghai company to avoid possible administrative and criminal punishment risks
Providing compliance analysis and suggestions for a foreign chemical company on the bonded research and development of hazardous chemical reagents and gases in the bonded zone to avoid possible administrative punishment risks
Coordinating with the customs investigation for a domestic company on the export license of endangered species involved in the export of AparvigoNMN capsules to dissolve possible criminal risks and actively reduce the administrative penalties
Providing compliance and legal advice for a foreign company on the customs evaluation of royalties of imported products to seek the maximum the interests for the company on the premise of avoiding possible administrative and criminal risks
Coordinating with the customs investigation for a high-tech enterprise that has arbitrarily dispose of the equipment subject to tax reduction or exemption that have not yet completed the customs procedure to dissolve possible criminal risks and actively reduce administrative punishment
Coordinating with the customs inspection for a foreign company on the classification of imported raw materials to dissolve possible administrative penalties
In the case of a customs officer smuggling goods or ordinary goods prohibited by the state, the party involved received a lighter punishment
Serving as the defender for the person directly responsible for the case of a Wenzhou company smuggling ordinary goods, where the party involved was detained for 37 days before being released on bail before trial and sentenced to probation in the end
In a case where a Shanghai company smuggled ordinary goods by reporting the price lower than the actual price and thus resulted in tax evasion of more than RMB 200,000, the procuratorate decided not to prosecute in the prosecution stage, and later the case was changed into administrative punishment
In a smuggle case of LCD screens supervised and overseen by the General Administration of Customs, the party involved received a mitigated punishment
In a smuggle case of white sugar involving tax evasion of RMB 140 million, the party involved received a mitigated punishment
In a smuggle case of antique furniture involving tax evasion of RMB 4.39 million, the party involved was released on bail before trial by applying for review of detention necessity after the procuratorate decided to arrest and sentenced to probation in the end

Honors and titles

Director of the Customs Law Research Association of the Shanghai Municipal Law Society
Deputy director of the International Trade Business Research Committee of the Shanghai Municipal Bar Association
Director of the International Trade Legal Service Center of Shanghai Botuo Law Firm
Revised the international trade law on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Bar Association, which was incorporated by the legislature into the “Regulations of Shanghai Municipality on Optimizing the Business Environment”
Compiling the “Ask & Answer of 100 Questions on International Trade” on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Justice Bureau
Compiling the operation guide to international trade legal service on behalf of the Shanghai Municipal Bar Association

Clients(part)

BASF | NTN | MULTIVAC | EXPORT AG | DAICEL CORPERATION | GXO | Amann Group | Vyaire | Huadong Medicine | Shanghai Future High-tech | Shanghai Xixi Logistics | Ruili Weiheng Import & Export | Aiqi Industry

Articles

Lawyer Practice of International Trade Contracts under the Situation of Covid-19

Ask & Answer of 100 Questions on International Trade

Operation Guide (2020) for Lawyers to Handle International Trade Contract (Export) under the Prevention and Control of Pandemic

Guide to Law Practice for International Trade Contracts (Import) under the Situation of Covid-19 (2021)

Accounting of Tax Evasion in the Smuggling of Ordinary Goods in the Locations without Customs

Taxable Value Determination of Goods Involved in Smuggling Case in Locations without a Customs, a Case Study of White Sugar Smuggle

Rational Proposals on Criminal Conviction for Smuggling of Goods Infringing upon Intellectual Property Rights

Smuggling of Spot Goods, Tax Calculation of Futures?

Determination of Taxable Value of Goods Involved in Smuggle of Antique Furniture

Introduction and Analysis of the Customs Supervision System of Cross-border E-commerce

Interpretation of Some Measures of Shanghai Customs to Fight the Pandemic, Safeguard People’s Livelihood, Help Enterprises to Promote Development

The Impact of the Pandemic on International Trade and Customs Response Measures from the Perspective of Customs Supervision

Questions and Answers on Foreign Trade under the Recurrent Pandemic

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