Amy S. Dwyer, Esq.

(Of Counsel)

Amy S. Dwyer is an international trade attorney and of counsel to the Washington, D.C. law firm of Stewart and Stewart. Ms. Dwyer began her legal career with Stewart and Stewart as an associate in 1990. For over twenty years, she has been actively involved in numerous international trade matters, including antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, constitutional challenges to U.S. trade laws, Section 201 and 301 cases, country of origin marking, and tariff schedule issues. She has regularly played a key role in firm cases and has represented U.S. producers of animal glue, bearings, cattle, flowers, glass, industrial belts, steel, steel rails, synthetic methionine, tires, tomatoes, and turbines/compressors.

As a senior member of Stewart and Stewart’s WTO team, Ms. Dwyer represents clients with interests potentially affected by ongoing WTO trade negotiations or dispute settlement proceedings. She also assists Stewart and Stewart’s Government Relations Division in tracking legislative developments affecting U.S. trade laws and devising legislative solutions to trade-related problems.

Ms. Dwyer is well-versed in the WTO Agreements concerning antidumping, subsidies, dispute settlement, and intellectual property. Since 2001, she has served as a co-editor of the looseleaf HANDBOOK OF WTO/GATT DISPUTE SETTLEMENT (Martinus Nijhoff Publishers) and has co-authored three books entitled RULES IN A RULES-BASED WTO: KEY TO GROWTH; THE CHALLENGES AHEAD (Transnational Pubs., Inc. 2002), HANDBOOK ON WTO TRADE REMEDY DISPUTES: THE FIRST SIX YEARS (1995-2000) (Transnational Pubs., Inc. 2001), and WTO ANTIDUMPING AND SUBSIDY AGREEMENTS: A PRACTITIONER’S GUIDE TO “SUNSET” REVIEWS IN AUSTRALIA, CANADA, THE EUROPEAN UNION, AND THE UNITED STATES (Kluwer Law Int’l, 1998), as well as published articles in the JOURNAL OF WORLD TRADE and THE INTERNATIONAL LAWYER. She has also co-authored a chapter on proposals for reforming the WTO Understanding on Dispute Settlement in REFORM AND DEVELOPMENT OF THE WTO DISPUTE SETTLEMENT SYSTEM (Cameron May, Ltd., 2006) and authored chapters on the WTO Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights in Volume IV of the treatise THE GATT URUGUAY ROUND: A NEGOTIATING HISTORY (1986-1994) (Terence P. Stewart ed., 1999), and on State Export Restrictions in EXPORT PRACTICE: CUSTOMS AND INTERNATIONAL TRADE LAW (PLI, Spring 1994).

Ms. Dwyer has represented clients before the U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, NAFTA Binational Panel, U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. Trade Representative, U.S. Department of Agriculture, U.S. Customs Service, and U.S. Congress. Her high level of commitment to client matters has earned her five Eugene L. Stewart Professional Excellence Awards.

Ms. Dwyer received her law degree from Boston College Law School where she was Executive Editor/European Economic Community of the Boston College International and Comparative Law Review which published her comment entitled The Inter-American Court of Human Rights: Towards Establishing an Effective Regional Contentious Jurisdiction, 13 B.C. INT’L & COMP. L. REV. 127 (1990). She received her bachelor of arts degree from the College of the Holy Cross and studied at the Loyola University of Chicago’s Rome Center. Ms. Dwyer is admitted to the bars of Massachusetts, District of Columbia, Court of International Trade, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and Supreme Court. She is also a member of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association.

Publications

 

“Preserving the Effectiveness of Trade Remedies for Developing Commonwealth and ACP Countries,” Paper Presented in Geneva at the First Joint High Level CDC-ACP-AITIC Workshop on the Agreement on Anti-Dumping Practices (April 28, 2010). – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer and Patrick J. McDonough. Year: 2010

“Antidumping: Overview of the Agreement,” in Law and Economics of Contingent Protection in International Trade, Cambridge University Press (October 2009) – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2009

“Moving Forward With Trade Remedies: A Collective Journey,” in Opportunities and Obligations: New Perspectives on Global and US Trade Policy, Kluwer Law International (Fall 2009) – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer and Patrick J. McDonough. Year: 2009

Article 13, Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures – Author: Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2008

Article 14, Agreement on Safeguards – Author: Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2008

Article 17, Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 – Author: Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2008

Article 30, Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures – Author: Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2008

Comparative Overview of Anti-Dumping Regulation in the European Communities and the United States of America – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2008

Trends in the Last Decade of Trade Remedy Decisions: Problems and Opportunities for the WTO Dispute Settlement System – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer and Elizabeth M. Hein. Year: 2007

China’s Laws, Regulations and Practices in the Areas of Technology Transfer, Trade-Related Investment Measures, Subsidies and Intellectual Property Protection Which Raise WTO Compliance Concerns – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer, Elizabeth A. Argenti and Philip A. Butler. Year: 2007

Should the WTO Dispute Settlement System be Modified or Reformed? – Author: Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2007

Patent Reform Legislation: The TRIPS Agreement and Proposals to Limit Civil Remedies for Certain Patent Violations – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2007

Doha’s Plan B: the Current Pause and Prospects for the WTO – Implications for Agricultural Subsidies – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2006

Dismantling Discrimination in the WTO System: The Importance of the Principle on Non-Discrimination in an Integrating World Economy – A Different Architectural Perspective – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2006

Proposals for DSU Reform that Address, Directly or Indirectly, the Limitations on Panels and the Appellate Body Not to Create Rights and Obligations – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer and Elizabeth M. Hein. Year: 2006

WTO Dispute Settlement: A Review of the First Nine Years and What Experience – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer and J. Daniel Stirk. Year: 2004

Antidumping, Countervailing Duties, and Trade Remedies: Let’s Make a Deal? – Views from a Domestic Practitioner – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer and Marta M. Prado. Year: 2003

The WTO Dispute Setlement System: An Overview – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2003

Rules in a Rules-Based WTO: Key to Growth; The Challenges Ahead Full Text – Author: Terence P. Stewart, Amy S. Dwyer, Patrick J. McDonough, Marta M. Prado and Amy A. Karpel. Year: 2002

Handbook on WTO Trade Remedy Disputes: The First Six Years (1995-2000) – Author: Terence P. Stewart and Amy S. Dwyer. Year: 2001

Practicing: International Trade