Start Date: 10/30/2024 3:30 PM EDT
End Date: 10/30/2024 6:30 PM EDT
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The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Trade Act of 1974: Enduring Significance and Lessons Learned
The U.S. Court of International Trade’s Historical Society and the Trade Remedies and Disputes Committee of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association invite you to a discussion of the Trade Act of 1974, its enduring significance, and lessons learned fifty years later. Prepare for an overview from a broad political/historical context and for first person perspectives from the Hill, the Administration, and the Courts. Please join us for a reception afterwards hosted by Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP. Register soon because we are capping in person attendees. Those wishing to attend virtually will receive a link after registration
Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Time: 3:30 PM - 6:30 PM ET
Location: This is a hybrid event.
Join us in person at: Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP; 2112 Pennsylvania Avenue NW; Washington, DC 20037
Zoom information will be sent to those who register to attend virtually.
Be sure to register early if you plan to attend in person, as we are limiting in-person attendance to 75 people.
Price: CITBA members & CIT Historical Society members – Free
Non CITBA members In Person - $20
Non CITBA member Virtually - $10
Featured Speakers:
Robert C. Cassidy, Jr
After leading the International Practice Group and the Trade Group at WilmerHale, Mr. Cassidy joined Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP when it was established in early 2011. His practice focuses on legal issues raised by cross border business transactions, including antidumping (“AD”) and countervailing duty (“CVD”) proceedings, economic sanctions, export controls, and customs issues. As General Counsel of the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative from 1979-1981, Mr. Cassidy was the senior U.S. government legal officer responsible for issues arising under the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, oversaw U.S. implementation of the agreements reached in the Tokyo Round of Multinational Trade Negotiations, and served as lead negotiator with Japan on market access issues. As International Trade Counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Finance from 1975-1979, Mr. Cassidy was a creator of the procedures for considering legislation implementing trade agreements – known as the “fast track” or “trade promotion authority” procedures. He was also a primary architect of the modern AD and CVD statutes enacted in the Trade Agreements Act of 1979.
Alan William Wolf
Alan Wolff is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (“PIIE”). Until joining PIIE, he was deputy director general of the World Trade Organization (“WTO”) and also served as the chairman of the National Foreign Trade Council. Wolff served as managing partner of the Washington, DC office of Dewey Ballantine from 1991 through September 2007 and co chaired the firm’s International Trade Practice Group. Wolff also served as United States deputy special representative for trade negotiations in the Carter administration and was general counsel of the office in the Ford Administration. He served as acting head of the U.S. delegation during the Tokyo Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations and was a principal draftsman of the basic U.S. law creating a mandate for trade negotiations. As deputy USTR, he was a founder of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (“OECD”) Steel Committee and its first chairman. He has served as a senior trade negotiator in, and advisor to, both Democratic and Republican administrations.
I. M. “Mac” Destler
Mac Destler, Professor Emeritus, is a scholar who specializes in the politics and processes of U.S. foreign policymaking. He is co-author, with Ivo H. Daalder, of In the Shadow of the Oval Office (Simon and Schuster, 2009), which analyzes the role of the President’s national security advisor from the Kennedy through the George W. Bush administration. His American Trade Politics (Institute for International Economics, 4th edition, 2005) won the Gladys M. Kammerer Award of the American Political Science Association for the best book on U.S. national policy. Over 100,000 copies of this book are now in print, including Japanese and Chinese translations. Destler is also a fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics (“PIIE”), where he conducts research on the political economy of trade policymaking. He has consulted on government organization for economic and foreign policymaking at the Executive Office of the President and the Department of State and held senior research positions at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Brookings Institution.
Moderated by:
Patrick C. Reed
Patrick Reed is senior counsel with the law firm of Simons & Wiskin in New York City. His law practice concentrates on customs and international trade law and includes extensive experience in litigation before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Reed is the author of The Role of Federal Courts in U.S. Customs & International Trade Law (1997). He is president of the Historical Society of the U.S. Court of International Trade and a former president of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association. He teaches international trade law as an adjunct professor at St. John’s University School of Law and is an adjunct professor and research fellow at the Weissman Center for International Business, Brauch College, City University of New York.
For questions about the event please contact CITBA Trade Remedies and Disputes Committee co chairs Mary Jane Alves (
MAlves@Cassidylevy.com) and Devin Sikes (
DSikes@Akin.com). Alternatively, for registration related questions, you may contact
info@citba.org.
