John R. Magnus
President, DradeWins, LLC
Mr. Magnus has been an active trade practitioner for 15 years, serving as external counsel to domestic and foreign firms and industry coalitions in sectors such as steel, forest products, chemicals, microelectronics, aerospace, textiles/apparel, photographic materials, insurance, beverage alcohol, machine tools, telecommunications, motion pictures and cable television. He advises and represents clients on multilateral negotiations and WTO disputes; on regional and bilateral trade initiatives; on U.S. trade legislation and Congressional oversight activities; on high-profile market access cases involving goods and services; on foreign governments' trade regimes and industrial policy measures; and on customs and compliance issues. He also advises foreign governments on their trade regimes and implementation of WTO rules, most recently in Beijing under Asian Development Bank auspices and in the Caribbean region under Organization of American States auspices.
Mr. Magnus has litigated numerous antidumping, countervailing duty, and other import-related cases before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission, as well as their reviewing courts and binational panels. He has also litigated Section 301 market access cases before the Office of U.S. Trade Representative, and helped to defend U.S. measures, and prosecute U.S. complaints, in numerous GATT/WTO dispute settlement proceedings.
Mr. Magnus has a secondary practice niche in antitrust, advising clients on domestic and (especially) international antitrust policy and enforcement issues. He has studied and written extensively on foreign antitrust and state aid control regimes as well as efforts toward multilateral competition rules and cooperative enforcement.
From 1990-2004, Mr. Magnus was associated with Dewey Ballantine LLP and a core member of its Washington, DC-based international trade practice group.
He was an equity partner in the firm from 2000-2004.
Since 2003, Mr. Magnus has been an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Baltimore School of Law, teaching "International Business Transactions" and "International Trade Law and Policy."
Mr. Magnus' most significant bar activities have been with the ABA Section of International Law, where he currently serves as Policy/Government Affairs Officer; is a past Chair of the International Trade Law Committee; and was tapped to serve as ABA Delegate to the 2001/2003 WTO Ministerial meetings. Other professional associations include the Customs & International Trade Bar Association, where he is presently a Board Member; the American Society of International Law; the Bretton Woods Committee; the International Chamber of Commerce (including a high-level ICC working party on trade and competition issues), and the Washington International Trade Association.
Mr. Magnus is also on the "roster" of trade remedy experts established under Chapter 19 of the North American Free Trade Agreement, eligible for service on binational panels convened to review antidumping and countervailing duty determinations issued by Canada, Mexico and the United States.
Mr. Magnus is admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of International Trade, as well as in the District of Columbia, and the State of California.
He holds a JD from the University of Chicago Law School (1990) and an AB, International Relations from Stanford University (1986).
Mr. Magnus is a prolific public speaker and writer on international economic issues.