Miller & Chevalier's International practice offers clients experience with a wide variety of trade and investment policy issues and with most aspects of the increasingly interrelated areas of international legal and regulatory compliance covered by U.S. laws and international agreements.

Our lawyers and other professionals are recognized in the areas of antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguards, and market disruption proceedings; intellectual property matters, including Section 337 litigation; customs; trade policy and legislation; civilian and military export controls; economic sanctions; the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and international anti-corruption laws; U.S. anti-boycott regimes; WTO and NAFTA dispute settlement; WTO and bilateral negotiations and compliance; and global regulatory compliance.   Members of our International practice have held senior government positions at the U.S. Departments of Commerce, State, and the Treasury, as well as the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, U.S. International Trade Commission, and the National Security Council.  While serving in many of these positions, they were responsible for developing important laws and regulations that are critical to international business today.  We have years of experience solving client problems in U.S. and global markets, drawing when necessary on our extensive network of proven trade professionals in key markets around the world. 

Our clients have involved us centrally in a series of seminal cases, including some of the largest and most significant countervailing duty, antidumping, safeguards, Section 337, WTO dispute settlement, NAFTA binational panel, and NAFTA Extraordinary Challenge cases ever to be litigated.   We have been involved in virtually every major U.S. bilateral and multilateral trade negotiation, as well as the related agreements and legislative implementation and regulatory processes during the past two decades.   In recognition of the depth and breadth of our international practice, we are also regularly called upon by some of the world's largest multinational corporations to design and implement international regulatory compliance programs, perform internal audits and investigations, and defend against enforcement actions.

Government Experience

• General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Chief Counsel, U.S. Customs Service (now U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
• Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for North American Affairs, Executive Office of the President
• Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs, Executive Office of the President
• Deputy General Counsel, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Legal Advisor to the Chairman, U.S. International Trade Commission
• Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Commerce
• International Trade Counsel, U.S. Senate Finance Committee
• Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Latin American Affairs, Executive Office of the President
• Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Congressional Affairs, Executive Office of the President
• Deputy Chief Counsel, U.S. Customs Service (now U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
• Senior Counsel, Office of the Chief Counsel of Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Director for Customs Affairs, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President
• Director, Regulatory Policy Division, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Director, Brazil and Southern Cone Affairs, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President
• Director, Nonproliferation and Export Controls, National Security Council
• Director, Generalized System of Preferences, Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, Executive Office of the President
• Director, Office of Technology and Policy Analysis, Bureau of Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Assistant Chief Counsel, U.S. Customs Service (now U.S. Customs and Border Protection)
• Senior Policy Advisor to the Under Secretary, Bureau of Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Senior Advisor and Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs, U.S. Department of State
• Chief Economist, Office of Policy, Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce
• Special Assistant to the United States Trade Representative and Coordinator of the Mid-Term Review of the Uruguay Round, Executive Office of the President
• Senior International Economist, Bureau of International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury
• Attorney, Office of the General Counsel, U.S. International Trade Commission

Rankings & Recognition

• Chambers Global:  International Trade/WTO (Global), 2009
• Chambers Global:  International Trade (United States), 2005 - 2009
• Chambers Global:  International Trade:  Intellectual Property (Section 337) (United States), 2009
• Chambers USA:  International Trade (National), 2005 - 2009
• Chambers USA:  International Trade:  Intellectual Property (Section 337) (National), 2008 - 2009