Gregory S. Menegaz has practiced in the field of international trade law regulation since 1992.  He has been in private practice since 1994, after completing a two-year clerkship at the U.S. Court of International Trade, involving trade and customs matters.

Mr. Menegaz counsels domestic firms and foreign companies and governments on a variety of international trade litigation and regulatory matters including trade remedies, antidumping, Customs, sanctions, and export controls.  He has defended companies facing antidumping investigations and reviews by the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission and has represented numerous clients before the Court of International Trade and appellate courts in trade matters.  Additionally, Mr. Menegaz advises U. S. importers and their suppliers on Customs law, including classification, valuation, country-of-origin marking, and penalties, and seizures cases, and has assisted clients with Customs compliance audits.  In the area of export controls, Mr. Menegaz has developed export screening and compliance plans for major corporations and has counseled clients in the software, telecommunications, electronics, and financial sectors on licensing matters before the Bureau of Industry and Security of the Department of Commerce and the Department of State’s Directorate of Defense Trade Controls.  He also has advised clients on U.S. and international trade sanctions.

A graduate of the New York University Law School (1992), Mr. Menegaz also holds an M.A. in French Studies from New York University and a B.A., magna cum laude, from St. Lawrence University.  Mr. Menegaz is fluent in French.  Mr. Menegaz was a judicial law clerk to the Honorable R. Kenton Musgrave at the United States Court of International Trade in New York in 1992-1994 before entering private practice.

Mr. Menegaz is a member of the New York and District of Columbia bars.  He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.  In addition, Mr. Menegaz is a member of the U.S. Court of International Trade Bar Association.

Mr. Menegaz is the co-author of ATrade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property@ in The World Trade Organization: Multilateral Trade Framework for the 21st Century and U.S. Implementing Legislation (T. Stewart, 1996).  He also co-authored AAmendments to Anti-Dumping Law are Debated,@ National Law Journal (Nov. 14, 1994). 

REPRESENTATIVE MATTERS

Trade:  Mr. Menegaz represented the recycled polyester staple fiber industry in China in a 2006-2007 antidumping duty investigation and earned for one leading exporter, Cixi Jiangnan, a de minimis antidumping duty margin in the Final Determination, an extremely rare achievement in the Trade Bar since the formation in the U.S. Commerce Department of Non-Market Economy Unit to scrutinize Chinese exports.  As a result of the finding, Cixi Jiangnan was excluded from the antidumping duty order resulting from the U.S. Commerce investigation.

Trade: Mr. Menegaz represented the Lined Paper Industry in a 2007 investigation of lined paper school supplies and assisted a major exporter, Kejriwal Paper Ltd. to earn a de minimis countervailing duty margin and assisted Indian industry to earn the lowest antidumping margins of the three countries targeted by the dual antidumping and countervailing duty investigations—including a 3.91% for Kejriwal (which Kejriwal appealed to the U.S. Court of International Trade on the belief that it should have been de minimis, earning a favorable remand opinion in late 2008).

Customs:  Mr. Menegaz assisted a major importer to obtain a Headquarters Customs Ruling involving novel and complex valuation issues and served as a cornerstone of their U.S. selling strategy.

MR. MENEGAZ’S LEGAL PUBLICATIONS

Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, in THE WORLD TRADE ORGANIZATION: MULTILATERAL TRADE FRAMEWORK FOR THE 21ST CENTURY AND U.S. IMPLEMENTING LEGISLATION, ed. T. Stewart (1996).

Amendments to Anti-Dumping Law are Debated, NATIONAL LAW JOURNAL (Nov. 14, 1994) (with Lawrence Walders).

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