Timothy C Brightbill

Practice Areas

Tim represents clients on all aspects of international trade law and policy including import trade remedies (such as antidumping (AD) law and countervailing duty (CVD) law), global trade policy and trade negotiations, renewable energy and climate change policy, digital trade, international telecommunications, and customs enforcement matters. He has also been an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center for 20 years.

Career

Vice-Chair (2013-Present) and Member (2007-Present), Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Services and Finance Industries; Adjunct Professor, International Trade Law and Regulation, Georgetown University Law Center (2002-Present); Faculty Member, Georgetown Law Global Trade Academy (previously the Academy of WTO Law and Policy) (2006-Present); Legislative and Legal Counsel, U.S. Representative John J. LaFalce, Chair of the House Committee on Small Business (1994-1995);

Professional Memberships

American Bar Association, Section of International Law; Federal Circuit Bar Association; The Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws; Executive Leadership Committee, Lawyers Have a Heart, American Heart Association (2010-Present); Georgetown Journal of International Law, Alumni Advisory Board; Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless; District of Columbia Bar; Maryland Bar; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit; U.S. Court of International Trade

Experience

Lead counsel to domestic solar manufacturers, who in 2018 won the first global safeguards case filed in the United States in more than 15 years. In 2012, won the largest U.S. trade remedy cases ever filed against China and the first cases involving renewable energy products, and also won follow-up cases against China and Taiwan in 2015.

Lead counsel to the Coalition of American Manufacturers of Mobile Access Equipment, the Coalition of American Millwork Producers, the American Line Pipe Producers Association, the Coalition for Fair Trade in Hardwood Plywood, the American Alliance for Solar Manufacturing, the American Manufacturers of Multilayered Hardwood Flooring, and the Association of American School Paper Suppliers.

Represents numerous U.S. industries in trade litigation and trade policy matters, including solar cells and panels, mobile access equipment, wood mouldings, wooden cabinets and vanities, steel and steel products, hardwood plywood, large diameter line and structural pipe, multilayered wood flooring, lined paper school supplies, heavy forged hand tools, and steel scrap.

Represents numerous clients before the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and the U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC), and in more than 70 oral arguments at the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Represents numerous clients in matters involving Section 232 national security investigations.

Regularly advises and represents clients before Congress and the Executive Branch on potential changes to U.S. trade laws, trade remedies, and trade negotiations, including the World Trade Organization (WTO), U.S. Free Trade Agreements (FTA), and Bilateral Investment Treaties (BIT).

Serves as vice-chair of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on Services and Finance Industries and advises service industries and provides the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and the U.S. government with industry advice on WTO, FTA, and BIT negotiations with major U.S. trading partners.

Represented U.S. industry coalition supporting the USTR in three successful WTO cases challenging China's raw material and rare earth export restrictions.

Education