Eric P. Salonen is an international trade attorney and partner with the Washington DC law firm of Stewart and Stewart. Mr. Salonen has a broad range of experience in U.S. trade remedy laws and trade policy, including antidumping and countervailing duty cases, safeguards, and section 337, as well as NAFTA and WTO dispute settlement.
Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Salonen served as Attorney-Advisor to Commissioner Janet A. Nuzum and Chairman Marcia E. Miller of the U.S. International Trade Commission. During his tenure at the USITC from 1991 to 1997, Mr. Salonen advised Chairman Miller and Commissioner Nuzum on a wide variety of trade remedy cases, including more than 50 antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and over 80 section 337 investigations concerning unfair imports, as well as safeguard investigations. He provided analysis and advice on implementing legislation for the Uruguay Round Agreements and helped draft the USITC’s regulations to implement changes to U.S. trade laws brought about by the Uruguay Round Agreements Act and the North American Free Trade Agreement, including the 1997 proposed regulations governing the conduct of five-year sunset reviews of antidumping and countervailing duty orders. Mr. Salonen also served on official trade delegation visits to Chile and France in connection with section 332 fact-finding investigations and to Canada for meetings with officials of the Canadian International Trade Tribunal.
Mr. Salonen has written and co-authored several articles on U.S. trade remedy laws, including most recently "Trade and Cattle – How the System is Failing an Industry in Crisis," 8 Minnesota Journal of Global Trade 2 (Summer 2000), and "’One Tomato, Two Tomato. . . .’ Selection of Trade Remedy Laws in the Florida-Mexico Tomato Conflict", XI Florida Journal of International Law 2 (Spring-Summer 1997). He served as a panelist in a series of programs in 1997 on U.S.-Mexico conflicts over trade in fruits and vegetables, and has lectured periodically on U.S. trade laws at the Georgetown University Business School’s Executive Management Program. He is an active member of the American Bar Association’s Section of International Law and Practice (Section Vice Chair and Assistant Budget Officer), and sits on the U.S. Court of International Trade Advisory Committee, among other professional activities and associations.
Mr. Salonen is a 1985 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where he was the Senior Articles Editor of the Journal of Comparative Business and Capital Markets Law, and recipient of the Journal’s first annual Noyes E. Leech Award for his note, Against the Current: Countervailing Duties, Upstream Subsidies and the Trade Remedies Reform Act of 1984. He received a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service, cum laude, from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service of Georgetown University in 1981.
Education
1985 University of Pennsylvania Law School, JD
1981 Edmund A Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University, BSFS, cum laude
Admitted to Practice: Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, U.S. District Court of the District of Columbia, U.S. Court of International Trade, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit View all publications by Eric P. Salonen |
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