David S. Christy, Jr.

Practices

• International Trade & Customs
• International

Professional Experience

For over twenty years, David has helped clients with market access issues, including U.S. trade policy, bilateral and multilateral trade disputes and negotiations, and international arbitrations. Chambers & Partners has acknowledged David is a "recognized WTO expert."

David advises companies, industries and governments on the full range of U.S. trade issues, including customs matters, and antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings and safeguard investigations. His representations extend beyond compliance matters and trade disputes and negotiations, to lobbying on trade policy matters before the U.S. Congress and Executive Branch agencies. He also advises companies regarding laws that combat slavery and human trafficking.

Since the formation of the WTO, David has advised clients involved in World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes and negotiations, including accession negotiations. He was the first private counsel to represent a member in a WTO dispute settlement proceeding, and advised Saudi Arabia in the bilateral and multilateral negotiations that led to Saudi Arabia's accession to the WTO. In addition to corporations and associations, his clients have included a number of WTO member governments, such as Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Indonesia, Jamaica, Japan, Korea, Poland, Saudi Arabia and St. Lucia.

Since 1998, David has served as an adjunct professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center, teaching courses on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, the WTO agreements, the Doha Development Agenda and related issues. In 2006, he was appointed as a founding member of the faculty of the Academy of WTO Law and Policy of the Institute of International Economic Law of Georgetown University. He also has served as a visiting professor of law at the Catholic University of Lyon.

David publishes frequently on WTO and trade policy issues. He has been interviewed by the BBC and Voice of America and quoted in publications such as The Financial Times, Bloomberg and BNA's Daily Executive Reporter.

David is admitted to practice in New York and the District of Columbia. He is admitted to practice before the Court of International Trade, the District Court for the Southern District of New York, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Education

• The University of Chicago Law School, J.D., 1990, Vice President, Chicago Legal Foundation
• University of Kansas, B.A., 1985, with Distinction, Majors: Philosophy, Political Science and Psychology; Phi Beta Kappa; Pi Sigma Alpha; Departmental Honors in Philosophy; Honors Programs of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology; Undergraduate Research Award in Philosophy; Dean's List

• WTO Negotiations
• Doha Development Agenda: Advise clients regarding the Doha Round of WTO negotiations; attended December 2005 Hong Kong Ministerial as accredited member of Saudi Arabian delegation
• Accession of Saudi Arabia to the WTO: Represented Saudi Arabia in the multilateral and bilateral negotiations regarding trade in goods and services, IPR and related issues leading to Saudi Arabia's accession in December 2005; accredited member of the official Saudi delegation to the WTO
• Negotiations in the Context of WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings
  
  
• WTO Dispute Settlement Proceedings
• United States—Subsidies on Upland Cotton
• Mexico—Definitive Countervailing Measures on Olive Oil from the European Communities
• United States—Definitive Safeguard Measures on Imports of Certain Steel Products
• European Communities—Anti-Dumping Duties on Malleable Cast Iron Tube or Pipe Fittings from Brazil
• European Communities—Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of Cotton-Type Bed Linens
• Canada—Export Credits and Loan Guarantees for Regional Aircraft
• United States—Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000
• United States—Anti-Dumping Duties on Imports of Hot-Rolled Steel from Japan
• Chile—Price Band System and Safeguard Measures Relating to Certain Agricultural Products
• Thailand—Anti-Dumping Duties on Angles, Shapes and Sections of Iron or Non-Alloy Steel and H-Beams from Poland
• Canada—Measures Affecting the Importation of Milk and the Exportation of Dairy Products
• United States—Anti-Dumping Act of 1916
• European Communities—Measures Affecting Asbestos and Products Containing Asbestos
• United States—Anti-Dumping Duty on DRAMs of One Megabit and Above from Korea
• Indonesia—Measures Affecting the Automotive Industry
• European Communities—Regime for the Importation, Sale and Distribution of Bananas
  
  
• Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings
• Crystalline Silicon Photovoltaic Cells , Whether or Not Assembled into Modules, from China
• Frozen Warmwater Shrimp from Vietnam, Thailand, China and India
• Glycine from China
• Furfuryl Alcohol from The People's Republic of China, Thailand and South Africa
• Solid Urea from the German Democratic Republic Fresh and Chilled Atlantic Salmon from Norway Brass Sheet and Strip from Sweden
• Brass Sheet and Strip from The Netherlands
• DRAMs of One Megabit and Above from Korea
• Refined Antimony Trioxide from The People’s Republic of China
  
  
• Safeguard, Market Disruption and Special 301 Proceedings
• Saudi Arabia (Special 301)
• Pedestal Actuators from China (Market Disruption)
• Steel (Safeguard)
  
  

• "Energy Issues In Selected WTO Accessions" · chapter in Regulation of Energy in International Trade Law: WTO, NAFTA and Energy Charter, Wolters Kluwer, 2011
• "Don’t Feed the Bear: Going Soft on Russia’s WTO Accession Is Bad for Everyone " · Foreign Policy, June 25, 2010
• "Update on Canada-U.S. Trade Policy" · 2010 National Spring Conference of the Canadian Corporate Counsel Association, Montreal, April 12, 2010
• "Policy Perspectives: How WTO Disputes Could Hurt US Business" · World Trade, May 2009
• "Bootstrapping Trade" · World Policy Journal, XXV:4, 127-131, Winter 2008/2009
• "Round and 'Round We Go…" · World Policy Journal, XXV:2, 19-27, Summer 2008
• "The Problems Facing the Doha Development Agenda" · Global Economy Journal, June 2008
• "The WTO’s Approval of Ukraine’s Entry" · Trade & Forfaiting Review, March 2008
• "Comment on Free Trade Agreement with Panama" · Latin American Advisor, March 12, 2008
• "What the Impasse in the WTO Doha Round Means to US Business" · World Trade, February 2008
• Comment on New Draft WTO Rules Text · Latin America Advisor, December 5, 2007
• "Terms of Saudi Arabia’s Accession to the WTO" · Middle East Policy, XII:1, Spring 2006
• Co-author, WTO Decisions: A Comprehensive Topical Index · Cameron May (London, UK), 2004

• Identified as a "recognized WTO expert" by Chambers and Partners, 2010 Global International Trade/WTO
• The Guide to World's Best International Trade Lawyers (Eurobusiness)
• The International Who's Who of Business Lawyers, Who's Who Legal, Trade & Customs