John Kenkel has practiced in the field of international trade law regulation since 1979. Mr. Kenkel conducted and supervised international trade investigations for over eight years, while he was with the U.S. Customs Service and the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.  He has been in private practice since 1988, representing both U.S. and foreign companies. 

Mr. Kenkel has actively participated in over 100 such antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings.  His practice areas include antidumping investigations, administrative reviews, and sunset reviews; Section 201 investigations; Section 337 investigations; and appeals to the Court of International Trade and the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. He is admitted to the practice of law in the District of Columbia. He also is a member of the bar of the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.  Mr. Kenkel has a B.A. from Georgetown University, a M.A. in International Economics from the Catholic University of America, and a J.D. from George Mason University Law School. 

MR. KENKEL’S LEGAL PRESENTATIONS

U.S. Antidumping Law, seminar given to Vietnam Chamber of Commerce (2008.)

How the U.S. Antidumping Law is Implemented Against Chinese Exports, seminar given to Law Society of Hong Kong (2007).

Nuts and Bolts of A U.S. Antidumping Investigation, seminar given to Chinese exporters of wooden bedroom furniture on the U.S. antidumping investigation of their exports (2004).

Application of the U.S. Antidumping Law, seminars given to the Government of Taiwan (2002-2003).

How to Participate in an Antidumping Investigation, given to Chinese exporters of ball bearings (2002)

PARTIAL LIST OF TRADE CASES HANDLED BY MR. KENKEL

METALS/METAL PRODUCTS

Antifriction Bearings

Ball Bearings

Barbed Wire

Brass Sheet and Strip

Carbon Steel Pipes & Tubes

Carbon Steel Wire Rod

Carbon Steel Plate

Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings

Certain Carbon Steel Products

Certain Hot-Rolled Lead & Bismuth Carbon Steel Products

Certain Stainless Steel Products

Chrome Plate Lug Nuts

Cold Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet

Concrete Reinforcing Bar

Folding Metals Tables and Chairs

Finished Carbon Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings

Heavy Forged Hand Tools

Hot Rolled Carbon Steel Sheet

Iron Construction Castings

Oil Country Tubular Goods

Operators for Jal. & Awning Windows

Malleable Iron Pipe Fittings

Porcelain-on-Steel Cooking Ware

Stainless Steel Sheet and Strip

Stainless Steel Butt-Weld Pipe Fittings

Stainless Steel Wire Rod

Stainless Steel Plate

Steel Wire Nails

Tapered Roller Bearings, 0-4, over 4 inches

Trailer Axles

Tubeless Tire Valves

Steel API Line Pipe

Welded Carbon Steel Pipes & Tubes

Wire Rope

ELECTRONICS

3.5" Microdisks and Media Thereof

Cellular Mobile Telephones

Color Picture Tubes

Color Televisions

Digital Readout Equipment

Dynamic Random Access Memory Semiconductors

High Capacity Pagers

Musical Instrument Pads

SRAMS

TEXTILES/WEARING APPAREL

Fabric Expanded Neoprene Laminate

Polyester Staple Fiber (PSF)

CHEMICALS/PHARMACEUTICALS

Ammonium Paratungstate

PET Film

Anhydrous Sodium Metasilicate

Aspirin

Potassium Permanganate

Nitrile Rubber

Granular PTFE Resin

Lidocaine Hydrochloride Cartridges

AGRICULTURE/FOOD/FORESTRY

Canned Tuna

Canned Pineapples

Certain Fresh Cut Flowers

Corn Starch

Crawfish Tail Meat

Fresh Garlic

Frozen Conc. Orange Juice

Mushrooms

In-Shell Pistachios

Pasta

Fresh Vegetables

Frozen Fish Fillets

Thermal Paper

Table Wine

Frozen Shrimp

MISCELLANEOUS

Wooden Bedroom Furniture

MINING

Certain Granite Products

Gray Portland Cement & Cement Clinker

Rock Salt

Titanium Sponge

Tungsten Ore Concentrates

Uranium

MACHINERY

All-Terrain Vehicles

Fork-lift Trucks

Light Trucks (prevented potential investigation)

Manual Typewriters

Paving Equipment

Portable Electric Typewriters

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