Dewey & LeBoeuf

Thomas R. Howell

Of Counsel

Thomas R. Howell has practiced in the international trade arena for more than 30 years. His practice includes litigation pursuant to the US trade remedies (antidumping, countervailing duty laws and Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974); World Trade Organization dispute resolution; competition policy in an international context; support for international negotiations; and securing market access abroad. A particular area of experience has been developing and analyzing comprehensive information about industrial policies, private commercial practices, research and science policy and economic systems outside the United States.

Section 301 Litigation
Mr. Howell represented the U.S. Semiconductor Industry Association in the Section 301 action against Japan in 1985-1986 which culminated in the Semiconductor Trade Agreement and the opening of the Japanese market to US-made semiconductors. He has represented Eastman Kodak Company in a Section 301 action (1995-1996) and subsequent market access efforts with respect to Japan. He has also represented US-based clients in sustained market access efforts with respect to soda ash, insurance and the telecommunications equipment market in Japan, and semiconductors in China.

Antidumping/Countervailing Duty Litigation
Between 1988 and 2003, Mr. Howell represented US producers of flat-rolled steel in antidumping and countervailing duty litigation against many countries.

Analytic Studies
Mr. Howell has performed numerous analytic studies for clients on subjects such as foreign high technology research and development programs and other industrial promotion efforts; national and international cartels; government subsidies; market conditions and anticompetitive practices in specific sectors in many countries in Europe and Asia; and the formation of trade policy and the functioning of trade regimes.

Bar Associations, Memberships and Activities

District of Columbia Bar Association
Member, Defense Science Board Task Force on Secure Microchip Supply (2004)
Member, Committee on Global Science and Technology Strategies and Their Effect on U.S. National Security, National Research Council of the National Academies (2009-10).

Publications

Conflict Among Nations: Trade Policies in the 1990s (Westview Press, 1992).
Steel and the State: Government Intervention and Steels Structural Crisis (Westview Press, 1988).
The Microelectronics Race (Westview Press, 1988).
“China’s New Antimonopoly Law: A Perspective from the United States,” PacificRim Law & Policy Journal (January 2009)
“The Multilateral Trading System and Transnational Competition in Advanced Technologies: The Limits of Existing Disciplines,” in VINNOVA/National Academies, The Innovation Imperative: National Innovation Strategies in the Global Economy (2009).
"Competing Programs: Government Support for Microelectronics," in National Research Council, Securing the Future: Regional and National Programs to Support the Semiconductor Industry (National Academies Press, 2003).
"Foreclosing a Japanese Hong Kong: Okinawa, 1967-72," Asian Perspective Vol. 24 No. 4 (2000).
"Cartels and Dumping: A Response," 69 Antitrust Law Journal 2 (2000).
"Dumping: Still a Problem in International Trade," in National Research Council, International Friction and Cooperation in High Technology Development and Trade (National Academies Press, 1997).
"The Trade Remedies: A U.S. Perspective" in Geza Feketekuty and Bruce Stokes (eds.) Trade Strategies for a New Era: Ensuring U.S. Leadership in a Global Economy (Council on Foreign Relations/Monterey Institute of International Studies, 1998).
"U.S.-EU Cooperation in Competition Policy in Asia: Trade Policy at the Newest Frontier," (co-author) (Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, Working Paper 115, 1998).
"Trade Protection: Rethinking the American Perspective," in 25 New York University Journal of International Law and Politics (Winter 1993).
"Steel and the State in Romania" in 29 Comparative Economic Studies 71 (Summer 1987).
"International Competition in the Information Technologies," in 22 Stanford Journal of International Law (Fall 1986).
"The U.S. Commitment to the GATT System: A Reappraisal of Basic Assumptions," in 6 Michigan Yearbook of International Legal Studies 491, 1986).
China’s Promotion of the Renewable Electric Power Equipment Industry: Hydro, Wind, Solar, Biomass (National Foreign Trade Council, 2010).
Chinas Emerging Semiconductor Industry: The Impact of China’s Preferential Value-Added Tax on Current Investment Trends Semiconductor Industry Association (2003).
The Internet in Japan: Catalyst for Change? (2001).
Privatizing Protection: Japanese Market Barriers in Consumer Photographic Film and Paper (1995).
Creating Advantage: Semiconductors and Government Industrial Policies in the 1990s Semiconductor Industry Association, (1992).