Alan M. Dunn, Esq.
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 in the multilateral GATT Uruguay Round negotiations, which established the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations with Mexico and Canada..
Mr. Dunn was among the senior U.S. officials responsible for forming and implementing trade-related policy and acted as the administrator of U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws, as well as several other U.S. trade programs. He also held trade policy responsibility for several industry sectors, including telecommunications, microelectronics, computers, pharmaceuticals, chemicals, and metals. He also participated in negotiations to resolve a number of sectoral trade disputes, such as the 1991 U.S.-Japan Semiconductor Arrangement.
With extensive expertise in international policy-making, negotiations, and most U.S. laws related to trade and exports, Mr. Dunn represents clients on a wide range of trade issues such as economic sanctions and embargoes, export controls on military and dual-use items, 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 serves as a Member of the U.S. State Department Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy (ACIEP), President and Director of the American Australian Education Leadership Foundation, as well as a director or principal in a number of profit and not for profit organizations. Before practicing law, Mr. Dunn was a member of the U.S. Foreign Service at the Department of State. He received his law degree from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Publications
Comparison and Analysis of Actions Under the Helms-Burton Act and D’Amato-Kennedy Act – Author: Alan M. Dunn. Year: 1998
Strategic Guide to International Trade – Author: Alan M. Dunn. Year: 1996
Antidumping, in the World Trade Organization: Multilateral Trade Framework for the 21st Century and U.S. Implementing Legislation – Author: Alan M. Dunn. Year: 1996
Dumping, A Comparative Approach – Author: Alan M. Dunn. Year: 1995
Trading with Post Communist Societies: Strategic Issues With Non-Market Economies – Author: Alan M. Dunn. Year: 1994
Practicing: International Trade Law
