Bruce M. Mitchell

Bruce M. Mitchell, with a legal career spanning more than 45 years, heads the firm’s trade practice.  After leaving the U.S. Department of Justice in 1978, where he acted as a trial attorney in customs and trade cases for three years, Mr. Mitchell went into private practice and began representing clients in proceedings under the U.S. trade laws, defending the interests of multinational companies, foreign industries, U.S. importers and trade associations.    Mr. Mitchell has been lead-counsel to respondents in many high visibility trade remedy proceedings, before both federal administrative agencies and U.S. Courts, representing clients involved in diverse industrial and commercial sectors, including, steel, chemicals, agriculture, food products, machinery and equipment, tools, electronics, energy and consumer goods.

Mr. Mitchell is known for his innovative solutions to complex problems and is widely recognized as one of the leading and most successful trade lawyers in the U.S.  His clients have been based throughout the world.  In the People’s Republic of China, he has been involved as counsel for MOFCOM and has routinely provided counsel to MOFCOM on a variety of trade issues, including preparation of comments on U.S. Department of Commerce policy changes. Mr. Mitchell has significant experience in all aspects of trade remedies, including antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and administrative reviews, anti-circumvention inquiries, scope proceedings and transshipment investigations. He practices regularly before the federal trade agencies that administer the trade laws of the United States including the U.S. Department of Commerce, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Trade Representative, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (Homeland Security). He is an experienced litigator in the U.S. Court of International Trade and Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Mr. Mitchell is the recipient of the AV Preeminent Rating from Martindale-Hubbell Peer Review.

Mr. Mitchell is the author of “Basic Aspects of the US Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Laws,” German-American Trade News (1983) and the co-author of “Judicial Review of US International Trade and Customs Law Determinations: The Customs Court Act of 1980,” Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, Vol. 9, No. 5 (1981).

New York Law School, J.D. (1975)

New York University, B.A. (1971)

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit (1982)

U.S. Court of International Trade (1982)

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (1978)

District of Columbia (1992)

American Bar Association

Customs and International Trade Bar Association

District of Columbia Bar Association 

District of Columbia State Bar Membership 

New York State Bar Association 

New York State Bar Membership