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| Phone: (202) 342-8590 |
Fax: (202) 342-8451 |
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| Kathleen Cannon is a Partner in the Firm's International Trade and Customs Practice Group. She brings over 20 years of experience in international trade law. Her practice focuses on assisting domestic industries that are experiencing injury due to unfairly traded imports, primarily through the use of antidumping and countervailing duty laws. She also has been involved in a wide range of trade matters, including escape clause actions, WTO international negotiation, and she has participated in implementing trade legislation and regulation. Ms. Cannon has appeared before all of the U.S. trade agencies and courts of jurisdiction. |
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Representative Experience:
Ms. Cannon's extensive experience includes:
- Counsel to the PC Strand Producers Coalition in the successful antidumping and countervailing duty cases against imports of prestressed concrete steel wire strand from Brazil, India, Korea, Mexico and Thailand.
- Counsel to domestic producers of carbon steel wire rod in successful antidumping and countervailing duty cases against imports from multiple countries.
- Counsel to the Specialty Steel Industry of North America in successful antidumping and countervailing duty cases involving imports of grain-oriented electrical steel, stainless steel sheet and strip, stainless steel plate and stainless steel wire rod from numerous countries.
- Counsel to Infineon Technologies in successful countervailing duty action against dynamic random access memory semiconductors from Korea.
- Counsel to DuPont, KoSa and Wellman in successful antidumping cases against polyester staple fiber from Korea and Taiwan.
- Counsel to domestic producers of fresh garlic, canned mushrooms, honey and fresh Atlantic salmon in successful antidumping and countervailing duty cases involving numerous countries before the International Trade Commission.
- Participation in challenges to countervailing duty determinations involving privatization of steel companies before the Dispute Settlement Body of the World Trade Organization.
- Participation in numerous oral arguments before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, addressing trade matters decided by the Department of Commerce and International Trade Commission.
- Involvement in rules and dispute settlement issues in the ongoing Doha Round of trade negotiations, as well as past involvement in the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations, Her involvement has included implementing legislation and regulations in connection with 1984, 1988, and 1994 Trade Acts on behalf of a variety of U.S. agricultural and manufacturing industries.
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Honors and Awards:
Selected as one of The Best Lawyers in America in 2009 in the area of international trade and finance law by America Lawyer Media.
Named by The Legal 500 as one of the leading lawyers in the United States in the international trade field. |
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Speaking Engagements:
International Trade Update, Georgetown University Law Center on Practice Before the CAFC, Washington, DC (February 2, 2007)
Customs and International Trade Bar Seminar on Use of Facts Available (February 27, 2007 and April 24, 2007)
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Bar Admission:
District of Columbia
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| Education:
University of North Carolina, JD, 1981
University of Maryland, BS, magna cum laude, 1977
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Office Location:
Washington Harbour, Suite 400
3050 K Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007-5108
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