Hughes Hubbard & Reed announced that Dean Pinkert joined the firm as a partner in its International Trade Group.
Pinkert was most recently a Commissioner on the U.S. International Trade Commission.
About Dean Pinkert
President George W. Bush nominated Pinkert to the ITC and he was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in 2007. President Barack Obama designated Pinkert Vice Chairman of the ITC in 2014.
As a Commissioner for the past decade, Pinkert participated in numerous antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard investigations, including the special safeguard investigation of passenger tires that resulted in import relief for the domestic tire industry and was upheld by the World Trade Organization. Pinkert participated as well in the unprecedented number of final determinations issued by the Commission in Section 337 investigations, notably dissenting in an electronic devices case that went to the President of the United States for review on policy grounds. The President, relying on many of the factors cited in the dissent, overruled the Commission for the first time since 1987. Pinkert also has joined in issuing many economic studies, including a study of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Before his appointment, Pinkert served at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the international trade area. He was a senior attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel for Import Administration, serving as liaison with U.S. Customs and Border Protection, counsel to the Foreign Trade Zone program, advisor to the U.S. Trade Representative, and litigation counsel in antidumping and countervailing duty matters. He argued trade remedy cases before NAFTA and WTO panels, and also served as Trade and Judiciary Counsel to Senator Robert C. Byrd.
Source: www.hugheshubbard.com
