Ranked by Chambers and Partners for Trade Remedies & Trade Policy, Tom advises clients on import regulatory compliance, trade remedies, international trade litigation, export controls, and policy. Tom counsels clients how to use the U.S. trade laws to obtain business advantages, including securing and protecting market access, balancing litigation costs with return on investment, and mitigating risks associated with importing and exporting goods. Tom is a frequent speaker on international trade and customs topics.Tom represents clients before the USITC, Commerce, and CBP and regularly appears before the U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Tom represents clients before dispute settlement panels and the Appellate Body of the WTO. Tom was appointed by the Chief Judge of the USCIT to be a member of the rules advisory committee and was appointed by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative to the U.S. roster of panelists under Chapter 10 of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (formerly Chapter 19 of the NAFTA). Tom has also defended government clients in investor-state disputes under Chapter 11 of the NAFTA.Highlights of Tom's career include:- Obtained an expansion of the Steel Import Monitoring and Analysis program to require importers to report country of origin of steel substrate regardless of the country of steel processing;- Attained and maintained AD/CVD orders concerning imports of large residential washers, primary steel products, forged steel products, aluminum wire, and agricultural products (e.g., biodiesel, tomatoes, sugar).- Secured a regional-based product exclusion from tariffs on softwood lumber from Canada for softwood lumber products produced in Atlantic Canada. - Represented domestic producers in the only two investigations pursuant to Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974 that have occurred since 2001 (large residential washers and solar products).- Secured an exclusion from tariffs under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 to allow a massive infrastructure project to continue without additional costs to U.S. taxpayers.- Represented companies petitioning for and securing relief from imports under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.Prior to private practice, Tom was an attorney in the Office of the Chief Counsel for Import Administration at Commerce. Tom is also an adjunct professor of law at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Listed skills include Litigation, International Trade, Administrative Law, Wto, and 12 others.
