Profile: Gary N Horlick

Mr Horlick works on international trade matters with Charlene Barshefsky, Claus-Dieter Ehlermann, Marco Bronckers, Robert Cassidy, John Greenwald, Charles Levy and Robert Novick at Wilmer Hale's international trade group. The group has successfully represented clients such as IBM, Cargill, BHP, Rockwell International, Arcelor, Procter & Gamble, Citizen Watch Company, KNP, the Food Institute of Canada, Dupont, and the governments of the EU, Canada, Mexico, Chile, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Australia and Hong Kong.

Mr Horlick was deeply involved in the Uruguay Round of GATT negotiations. He served as counsel to governments in the negotiations of the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement (FTA), US-Chile FTA, NAFTA, US-CAFTA, and the Canada-Chile FTA. He has been counsel in numerous GATT panels and panels under Chapter 19 of the US-Canada FTA; the first NAFTA chapter 20 panel, several completed WTO proceedings (through the appellate body phase); and several ongoing WTO dispute resolution proceedings. He taught international trade law for three years at Yale Law School; served as international trade counsel for the US Senate Finance Committee, and as head of the Department of Commerce's import administration was responsible for all US anti-dumping and countervailing duty cases, foreign trade zones, and statutory import programmes.

He has litigated anti-dumping, countervailing duty and safeguard cases involving steel, chemicals, automotive parts, textiles, raw and processed agricultural products, copper, electronics, and numerous manufactured goods. He is a member of the international trade law committee of the International Law Association and of the Council on Foreign Relations, and is a former chairman of the international trade section of the DC Bar.

He has a degree in History from Dartmouth College, an MA and diploma in International Law from Cambridge University and a law degree from Yale University.