Steptoe LLP

WTO Disputes | Trade Remedies, Trade Policy & Negotiations

Partner

Amy Lentz heads Steptoe's International Disputes group. She focuses in particular on high-profile disputes arising under the agreements of the World Trade Organization (WTO). Amy is well-acquainted with and well-known within the system, having litigated a wide range of issues concerning the interpretation and application of WTO agreements before dispute settlement panels and the WTO Appellate Body. Amy represents sovereign clients in matters arising under the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM), the Agreement on Implementation of Article VI of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade 1994 (AD), the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the Agreement on Technical Barriers to Trade (TBT), and the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS).

Amy also represents both sovereign and private sector clients in countervailing duty investigations and administrative reviews before the US Department of Commerce, injury investigations and sunset reviews before the US International Trade Commission, and challenges to agency determinations before USMCA binational panels. For the last ten years, Amy has represented the Canadian softwood lumber industry in all aspects of the decades-old dispute concerning imports of lumber from Canada, the largest and most complex countervailing duty case ever litigated.

Amy's practice also includes advising clients on issues related to other U.S. trade laws, such as Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, Section 201 of the Trade Act of 1974, and the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA).