When the EU changes sourcing and production strategies employed by multinational enterprises and a move towards reshoring of economic activity to the firm's country of origin, students, managers, entrepreneurs and governments, especially in the Asia-Pacific region, should understand whether the EU’s reshoring industrial policies to foster the creation of sustainable competitive advantage. By examining the strategic implications of the EU’s reshoring industrial policies, this project asserts that responsiveness to public policy issues such as anti-dumping investigations and patent litigations is of increasing importance to the strategic management of business firms, especially in the Asia-Pacific region. The expected impact of this project is to build the codes of conduct for the managerial capability of legal astuteness on EU’s anti-dumping investigations and patent litigations, and to develop a model of EU’s manufacturing reshoring industrial policy on anti-dumping investigations and patent litigations in specific context in order to anticipate situations where investigation and litigation is likely to prove detrimental.