John Anwesen advises on a wide variety of international trade matters, with a focus on antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, as well as related litigation and dispute resolution. He provides clients with comprehensive and detailed analyses, working through the technical aspects of various products, production processes, and company financials. Drawing from his time as an attorney at the U.S. Department of Commerce, he skillfully navigates through the agency’s administrative proceedings and litigation matters before the United States Court of International Trade.
While at the Department of Commerce, John was responsible for conducting all aspects of antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, including investigations, administrative reviews, and scope and anti-circumvention inquiries involving imports of aluminum and steel products, silicon metal, activated carbon, graphite electrodes, and glycine. Additionally, when involved in countervailing duty proceedings, he analyzed various foreign government programs such as provisions of inputs, grants, loans and taxes. John is also knowledgeable in assessing electricity subsidy programs and their effects on markets. At Commerce, John performed quantitative and qualitative analyses of data submitted by foreign governments and manufacturers, and performed numerous antidumping duty margin and countervailing duty rate calculations. He also led and participated in on-site sales, factors of production, and subsidy verifications in various countries.