Kevin Horgan has been engaged in the practice of international trade law since 1981, when he began his career as a law clerk for the Chief Judge of the United States Court of International Trade.  From 1983 to 1987, Mr. Horgan served as a trial attorney in the Civil Division of the U.S. Department of Justice, representing the United States government in civil and appellate litigation.

 Mr. Horgan has represented private parties before a wide variety of federal agencies, including: the U.S. Customs and Border Protection Bureau; the U.S. International Trade Commission; the U.S. Trade Representative; the U.S. Commerce Department's Import Administration and Bureau of Industry and Security; the U.S. Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control; and the United States Congress. 

Mr. Horgan is a graduate of the University of Pittsburgh and New York Law School.  He is admitted to the practice of law in New York, the District of Columbia, Illinois, and Pennsylvania.  Mr. Horgan is a member of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association and a former Co-Chair of the ABA’s Customs Law Committee.

MR. HORGAN’S LEGAL PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS

Articles

Antidumping Duties, U.S.  Taxation of International Operations (Boston: Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1996) (chapter in treatise).

Subsidies and Countervailing Duties, U.S.  Taxation of International Operations (Boston: Warren, Gorham & Lamont, 1996) (chapter in treatise).

Dumping and Government Subsidies: The Remedies Available under Domestic and International Trade Law, Washington Legal Foundation, Contemporary Legal Notes Series No. 14 (March 1995).

U.S Patents, Trademarks and Copyrights after the Uruguay Round, Corporate Counsel’s International Adviser, Issue No. 116 (January 1995).

U.S. Rules of Origin:  An Introduction to the High Stakes and Peculiar Rules for Determining the Origin of Imported Merchandise, Corporate Counsel’s International Adviser, Issue No. 94 (March 1993).

The Impact of Interlocutory Judicial Decisions Upon Anti-Dumping and Countervailing Duty Proceedings, 3 Florida International Law Journal No. 2 (Spring 1988).

Presentations

Cold Chain Distribution for Pharmaceuticals, presented in seminar entitled Customs Informed Compliance and C-TPAT, sponsored by Pharma IQ, a division of the International Quality & Productivity Center, Philadelphia, PA (Sept. 24, 2008).

New Business Opportunities in Mexico and Canada, presented in seminar entitled Maximizing the Benefits of a North American Free Trade Agreement, Los Angeles , CA (Feb. 27, 1992).

Trademark Counterfeiting in the United States and Abroad: “The Barbie Doll Case,” presented in seminar entitled Detention of Imported Merchandise Suspected of Infringing a U.S. Copyright After Miss America Organization v. Mattel, San Francisco , CA (Nov. 8, 1991).

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