Mary Jane Alves

Practice Areas

International Trade: antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard actions, with particular emphasis on injury proceedings; related litigation and dispute resolution

Career

As a partner at Cassidy Levy Kent, maintained a solid injury record working with various team permutations.

- Defended U.S. mattress industry in successful injury investigation of less than fair value imports from China and secured relief from whack-a-mole imports in subsequent injury investigation of subsidized Chinese imports and dumped imports from seven additional countries

- Maintained orders for U.S. industry in contested multi country five-year injury reviews of steel products such as OCTG, CORE, and CRS

- Obtained relief for U.S. tomato industry in an injury investigation that began two decades earlier

- Achieved first ever extensions of two U.S. global safeguard measures

- Navigated various single and multicountry five-year reviews into expedited reviews, yielding an additional 5 years of import relief at reduced cost to a range of domestic industries, such as sugar, nickel plate, seamless SLP pipe, and HFC blends

- Prevailed for respondents with negative injury determinations in investigations of magnesium from Israel and newsprint from Canada

- Attained continuation of order with an affirmative five-year review injury determination regarding frozen fish fillets from Vietnam

- Achieved orders in original injury investigations of fluid end blocks, aluminum wire and cable, copper pipe and tube, and sodium nitrite

Professional Memberships

New York and District of Columbia bars; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and United States Court of International Trade bars; Co-Chair, International Trade Committee, Customs and International Trade Bar Association (“CITBA”); former Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education & Professional Responsibility, CITBA; member, Women in International Trade; Member, Judicial Conference Planning Committee 15th Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of International Trade

Experience

Before returning to private practice, Ms. Alves worked for 17 years at the U.S. International Trade Commission (“Commission”) in the Office of the General Counsel where she provided legal oversight to multidisciplinary investigative teams in trade remedy cases. During this period, Ms. Alves drafted the Commission’s injury determinations in scores of original investigations and five year reviews, including in cases with injury issues that arise less frequently, such as material retardation, transshipment, the agricultural provisions, and the cumulation exception for imports from Israel. She served as the lead attorney on injury issues in the global safeguard investigation of certain solar products, the only general safeguard ever successfully defended before a WTO dispute settlement panel. Ms. Alves also successfully represented the agency as lead counsel in disputes before the CIT, the Federal Circuit, the WTO, and US/Canada/Mexico free trade agreement binational panels. Ms. Alves also provided technical advice on injury issues to trade negotiators for The Trans Pacific Partnership and Doha Rules negotiations.

Previously, as an associate in the Washington, DC office of a multinational law firm, Ms. Alves previously advised respondent clients in antidumping and countervailing duty disputes before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Commission, and the CIT. She assisted with preparing and verification of submissions in market and non-market economy proceedings, obtaining permanent injunctive relief, negotiating a suspension agreement, securing non initiation of an investigation for lack of standing, and terminating a separate suspension agreement that yielded a negative injury determination in the resumed investigation.

Industry Sector Expertise

Decades of experience on U.S. International Trade Commission injury cases involving a wide range of injury issues and industry sectors

Expert in these Jurisdictions

U.S. International Trade Commission, U.S. Department of Commerce, United States Trade Representative, U.S. Court of International Trade, Federal Circuit, World Trade Organization dispute resolution, US/Canada/Mexico dispute resolution

Languages Spoken

English, French (conversational)

Education