Profile: Joseph W Dorn

Trade and Customs

Biography: Trade & Customs

Joe Dorn is the founding partner of King & Spalding's international trade group. His practice focuses on international trade disputes in the US, foreign countries and before the World Trade Organization.

In the US, Mr Dorn has successfully pursued trade remedy actions on behalf of US industries against imports from China, Canada, Germany, Japan, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Korea, Spain, Mexico, Venezuela, Australia, New Zealand, France and other countries. He has handled a wide variety of trade remedy investigations, including anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases, safeguard cases and section 337 cases (patent and trademark infringement), and on behalf of a wide array of industries (eg, cement, steel, crude oil, welded pipe, tires, laminated woven sacks, thermal paper, magnesium, tobacco, furniture, plastic bags, cookware, stoves, beef, skate boards, paint brushes and raspberries).

Mr Dorn also has successfully pursued and defended numerous trade remedy cases outside the US, including the following: represented a Guatemalan industry in the first anti-dumping case ever prosecuted in Central America, represented industries in the Philippines, Nicaragua and Cyprus in the first anti-dumping cased filed in these countries, defended a US exporter of stainless steel in an anti-dumping investigation before the European Commission, and prosecuted a state-aid case before the European Commission.

Mr Dorn has handled numerous NAFTA and WTO dispute settlement proceedings and argued numerous appeals before the US Court of International Trade and the US Court of Appeals for the federal circuit. He won the NAFTA panel decisions on behalf of US cement, cookware and magnesium industries, represented the government of Guatemala in the first antidumping case brought before a WTO panel and won a reversal of the panel's adverse decision before the WTO appellate body, and won various judicial appeals on behalf of US producers of various products.

Mr Dorn serves on the board of directors of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association and is the chair of its international trade committee. He has served as chairman of the subcommittee on trade and customs law of the International Bar Association and vice chairman of the antitrust and trade law committee of the International Bar Association. He is admitted to practise in the District of Columbia and in Georgia. He has spoken at seminars in Europe, Asia and North America on customs and trade law issues, has spoken at judicial conferences at the US Court of International Trade and has testified before Congressional committees concerning international trade legislation.

Mr Dorn is a 1970 graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he was a Morehead scholar and a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He received his law degree in 1973 from the University of Virginia, where he served on the Virginia Law Review and was elected to the Order of the Coif.