Kathleen W. Cannon

With more than three decades of experience in international trade law, Kathy Cannon assists domestic businesses and business coalitions that are experiencing injury due to unfairly traded imports, primarily through the use of antidumping and countervailing duty laws. As managing partner of Kelley Drye’s Washington, D.C. office and former chair of the firm’s International Trade group, Kathy is involved in a wide range of domestic and international trade-related matters. She is focused on helping her clients understand not only how international trade laws work, but also how such laws apply to each client’s specific business model and product. By drawing upon her longevity in this area of practice, Kathy is able to effectually survey and analyze her client’s business and quickly assess which trade remedy and strategy should be employed.

Kathy and her team consistently deliver a deep bench of proven results. Kathy, in particular, has extraordinary skill in the injury phase of trade remedy actions before the U.S. International Trade Commission. She has participated in many oral arguments before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Kathy has also been involved in implementing trade legislation and regulations, as well as in rules and dispute settlement issues before the World Trade Organization (WTO). When U.S. producers and exporters are charged with dumping in other countries, Kathy has also worked to assist them in navigating those countries’ trade laws.

Notably, Kathy participated in the U.S. and China steel dialogue in Beijing on Chinese tax and trade policies affecting U.S. steel wire producers. She has argued hundreds of cases before agencies and courts of jurisdiction in the international trade area, as well as having authored an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Committee to Support U.S. Trade Laws in a successful appeal of a Commerce antidumping determination.

Furthermore, Kathy has represented companies in Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) proceedings before the U.S. Trade Representative’s office, as well as participated in international challenges to U.S. determinations involving Chinese limitations on raw material exports, the privatization of steel companies, subsidies to Chinese steel producers, and injury caused by exports of DRAMs from Korea and before the WTO Dispute Settlement Body. Kathy has also participated in implementing trade legislation and regulations in connection with the 1984, 1988 and 1994 Trade Acts on behalf of a variety of U.S. agricultural and manufacturing industries.