Dan is an international trade and customs lawyer who specializes in Canada-United States matters. In addition to his legal practice, Dan has responsibility for coordinating the firm’s innovative Canada-US Platform where he collaborates with more than 400 Dickinson Wright attorneys who regularly assist businesses that have cross-border issues such as customs and compliance, corporate structuring, M&A, taxation, business immigration, intellectual property protection, and financial incentives. Dan also provides public policy counsel to governmental officials and corporate leaders in areas of regulatory cooperation, border security, economic development, labor mobility, corporate social responsibility, and public-private-partnerships.
A US-licensed lawyer, Dan is one of the few individuals that has served in the US and Canadian governments, private practice, and academia. Prior to joining Dickinson Wright, Dan served as an officer in Canada’s foreign ministry where he was responsible for coordinating a network of government departments and Canada-US industry associations toward improving North America’s borders and ports-of-entry. Dan also served as a liaison between government officials in Canada and the US, as well as routinely assisted companies in dealings with Canada-US regulatory agencies.
Dan was the Managing Director of the Canada-United States Law Institute, an organization of cross-border corporate executives, in-house counsel, law firms, public policy experts, scholars and the media housed at Case Western Reserve University and the University of Western Ontario. Dan was a visiting professor of law at Case Western Reserve University School of Law for nearly a decade and managed a lab that served as a legal adviser to the US Department of Homeland Security and the US Coast Guard. Dan was the co-faculty advisor for the Canada-United States Law Journal and the Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law.
More Legal and Business Bylines From Daniel D. Ujczo
- New Section 301 Tariffs Proposed for $200 Billion of Chinese Goods - (Posted On Tuesday, July 17, 2018)
- Section 301 Tariffs on Chinese Goods – USTR Issues Procedures for Product Exclusion Requests - (Posted On Wednesday, July 11, 2018)
- Section 301 Tariffs on Chinese Goods – What To Do Now - (Posted On Monday, June 25, 2018)
- Trade, Tariffs, and Trouble (Part III) - (Posted On Wednesday, June 20, 2018)
- Section 232 Steel and Aluminum Tariffs – Commerce Issues Requirements For Exclusion Requests - (Posted On Wednesday, March 21, 2018)
- Softwood Lumber Update: WTO Affirms US Methodology in Determining the Benefit Attributable to Log Export Restrictions in Indonesia Paper as a Countervailable Subsidy - (Posted On Thursday, March 01, 2018)
- CETA: A New Opportunity, and Challenge, for Canadian Companies - (Posted On Friday, September 29, 2017)
- NAFTA: USTR Summary of Objectives Released July 17, 2017 - (Posted On Friday, July 21, 2017)
- Canada Initiates Consultations with Industry on NAFTA Renegotiation - (Posted On Thursday, June 08, 2017)
- Canada-U.S. Softwood Lumber Dispute: What’s Changed? B.C. Log Export Restrictions (LERS) and NAFTA Implications - (Posted On Tuesday, May 30, 2017)