Presenter

Alan Dunn

Partner, Stewart & Stewart

Mr. Dunn joined Stewart and Stewart as a partner in 1998 and has practiced international trade law since 1980. He is a former U.S. Assistant Secretary of Commerce and served as one of the lead U.S. negotiators with Mexico and Canada in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations, and in the multilateral GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, which established the World Trade Organization (WTO).As the administrator of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as several other U.S. trade programs, Mr. Dunn was among the senior U.S. officials responsible for forming and implementing trade-related policy. He also held trade policy responsibility for several industry sectors, including telecommunications, microelectronics, computers, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and metals. He also served as one of the U.S. negotiators in resolving a number of sectoral trade disputes, such as the 1991 U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Arrangement.With extensive expertise in international policy-making, negotiations, trade remedies, litigation, and promotion, Mr. Dunn represents clients on such trade issues as economic sanctions and embargoes, export controls, market access, antidumping and countervailing duties, safeguards (section 201), section 301 proceedings, the generalized system of preferences (GSP) program, customs, and other laws related to trade. He has represented numerous corporations and sovereigns in various types of trade actions before the governments of the U.S. and other nations, including negotiated settlements such as the 1994 Aluminum MOU. He also has assisted several nations with the drafting of their trade laws and is a frequent speaker on international trade issues.He is a serves as a Member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP), as well as a Principal of the Council for Excellence in Government. Before practicing law, Mr. Dunn was in the U.S. Foreign Service at the Department of State. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.

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