Julie C. Mendoza is a partner in the firm’s International Trade practice. She has over two decades of experience skillfully defending a broad range of clients in major cases under U.S. import relief law and in U.S. customs matters. She practices before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Office of the United States Trade Representative, the U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection, and various other U.S. government agencies, including the U.S. Court of International Trade, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Ms. Mendoza has been ranked by both Chambers USA and Chambers Global as a leading practitioner in the area of International Trade.
As counsel to foreign manufacturers, Ms. Mendoza has advised foreign governments on a variety of bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations including the Uruguay Round, negotiations related to the World Trade Organization's (WTO's) Agreement on Safeguards, bilateral subsidies agreements, framework agreements on trade and investment, and the negotiation of Voluntary Restraint Arrangements on steel.
Ms. Mendoza has an active practice in the area of WTO dispute resolution and has argued on behalf of clients before the WTO Panels and the WTO Appellate Body. She 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). She also advises clients involved in NAFTA dispute settlement proceedings and has argued on behalf of clients before NAFTA Panels. Given her recognized expertise in the areas of dumping, subsidies and safeguards, she is frequently invited to speak at conferences and seminars sponsored by the WTO Secretariat in Member countries on topics of international trade practices and remedies.
Ms. Mendoza is fluent in Spanish and has worked extensively in Latin America on a wide variety of trade matters.
Recent Matters
Served as lead attorney of the Government of China in the first Section 129 Implementation of the U.S. - Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China (WTO DS 379)
Honors and Affiliations
Listed, Chambers USA: America's Leading Lawyers for Business (since 2005)
Listed, Chambers Global: The World's Leading Lawyers for Business (since 2006)
Achieved the Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review Rating, 2008
Presentations & Speaking Engagements
Presenter, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)-sponsored seminar regarding recent issues arising in WTO dispute resolution and the implications for Member governments, April 2005
Presenter, USAID, Secretaría de Integración Económica de Centroamérica (SIECA) and Government of El Salvador-sponsored seminar on the WTO Agreements on Antidumping, Subsidies and Safeguards and the Impact of Recent WTO Panel and Appellate Body decisions on these agreements, San Salvador, El Salvador, September 2002
Presenter, WTO-sponsored seminar, Taller sobre Medidas de Protección Contingente y Medidas de Salvaguardia en la OMC
Presenter, Training seminar targeted at high-level trade officials in the Government of Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay, May 2001
Presenter, WTO-sponsored seminar, Advanced Level Seminar on Domestic Industry Injury Determinations, Mexico City, Mexico, August 1999
Presenter, Government of Venezuela-sponsored training seminar, Injury Issues in International Trade Investigations, Caracas, Venezuela, June 1998
Presenter, Seminar sponsored by the leading business organizations in Argentina, Brazil and Chile - Unión Industrial Argentina (UIA), Sociedad de Fomento Fabril (SOFOFA) and Confederacao Nacional da Industria (CNI) - regarding the World Trade Organization, Dispute Settlement and Effective Business-Government Relations, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Santiago, Chile; and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; April 1998
Presenter, USAID-sponsored training seminar on Antidumping Rules and Procedures, Jakarta, Indonesia, October 1996
Presenter, Government of Taiwan-sponsored seminar, Safeguard Measures and Import Relief under International Trade Law, Washington, DC., April 1996
Government of Argentina-sponsored training seminar, Specific Issues in Unfair Trade Investigations, Buenos Aires, Argentina, September 1995
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