R. Will Planert

Will is a Partner in the firm’s International Trade practice. He concentrates on representing multilateral and foreign-based corporations in a wide variety of international trade disputes, including antidumping and countervailing duty investigations, Section 201 (safeguards) cases, anticircumvention investigations, and customs investigations and compliance. Will appears regularly before the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, and U.S. Bureau of Customs and Border Protection. He is also experienced in complex litigation before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, as well as before USMCA binational dispute settlement panels. Will counsels domestic and foreign clients on customs compliance issues, USMCA origin issues, country of origin determinations marking requirements, and quotas.

• Served as co-counsel to a prominent industry association in their constitutional challenge to Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962.
• Represents a leading global lumber producer in the antidumping administrative review of Softwood Lumber from Canada conducted by the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Represents a major steel company in the ongoing antidumping administrative review of Hot-Rolled Steel from Korea.
• Represents the largest producer and exporter of butt-weld pipe fittings from Malaysia in a circumvention inquiry at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Represents one of the largest Canadian fabricated structural steel producers in the antidumping investigation of Fabricated Structural Steel from Canada at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Represents several U.S. importers in filing prior disclosures and protests at U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
• Represents an importer in antidumping and countervailing duty administrative reviews of Magnesia Carbon Bricks from China.
• Represented a major paper manufacturer in the antidumping duty investigation of Uncoated Groundwood Paper from Canada at the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Represented foreign steel producers in U.S. International Trade Commission antidumping and countervailing duty investigations of Standard Pipe from the United Arab Emirates, Corrosion-Resistant Steel Products from Korea, Italy, and Taiwan, and Oil Country Tubular Goods from Korea and Turkey.