Nickname: Don
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Donald B. Cameron, Jr. is a partner in the firm’s International Trade practice. He has over three decades of experience representing multinational businesses, foreign governments, foreign trade associations and U.S. importers in litigation under U.S. antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguards law. He also advises clients from around the globe in international trade disputes and market access issues, and has particular experience defending clients in industry sectors that are politically sensitive. Mr. Cameron has represented foreign producers and importers in sectors such as footwear, lumber, textiles, electronic products, and steel products. He practices regularly before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Mr. Cameron has extensive experience representing private-sector interests and governments in dispute settlement proceedings before the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in Geneva, and has argued on behalf of clients before the WTO Panels and WTO Appellate Body. He has also defended clients in North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) Chapter 19 proceedings and has argued before NAFTA Panels. Mr. Cameron also advised the Government of Korea in the successful WTO challenges to the U.S. safeguard actions on line pipe and certain steel products (AB-2001-9 and AB-2003- 3).
As counsel for foreign manufacturers, Mr. Cameron has also advised and assisted foreign governments in a variety of bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, most prominent being the steel Voluntary Restraint Arrangements negotiations, bilateral subsidies negotiations and the OECD shipbuilding negotiations.
Recent Matters
- Served as lead attorney for a major U.S. importer of Galvanized Steel Wire at the ITC resulted in a negative injury determination
- Acted as coordinating lead counsel in the 1993 U.S. International Trade Commission investigation of hot-rolled carbon steel products
- Dongbu Steel Co., Ltd. v. United States, 635 F.3d 1363 (Fed. Cir. 2011)
- Nucor Corp. v. United States, 414 F.3d 1331 (Fed. Cir. 2005)
- AK Steel Corp. v. United States, 192 F.3d 1367 (Fed. Cir. 1999)
- Wheatland Tube Co. v. United States, 161 F.3d 1365 (Fed. Cir. 1998)
- United States Steel Group v. United States, 96 F.3d 1352 (Fed. Cir. 1996)
Honors and Affiliations
Listed, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (since 2007)
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers (since 2006)
Listed, Chambers Asia (2010-2011)
Listed, The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers (since 2006)
Recent Publications
Co-Author, 28 U.S.C. § 1581(i) “Residual” Jurisdiction: 2007 Year in Review of Decisions Issued by the U.S. Court of International Trade, Georgetown Journal of International Law, Fall 2008
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