Lucas Queiroz Pires

• Advised clients in various customs matters, including tariff classification, valuation, rules of origin, tariffs, preferential trade agreements, and import compliance programs.
• Represented domestic and foreign companies in U.S. antidumping, countervailing duty proceedings, and tariff matters before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission, and related actions before the U.S. Court of International Trade.
• Represented several clients in U.S. Section 232 steel and aluminum actions, Section 301 measures concerning products from China and the EU, and related advocacy and exclusion processes.

Lucas Queiroz Pires is an associate with the International Trade & Regulatory Group at Alston & Bird in Washington, D.C. He focuses on international trade issues, including customs, trade remedies (e.g., antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings), trade policy, free-trade agreements, sanctions, and export controls. Lucas also assists international companies in trade compliance, regulatory, litigation, and other cross-border business needs.

Clients value Lucas’s ability to communicate across cultures, as his background includes interning at the Legal Affairs Division of the World Trade Organization (WTO), and being a senior associate in International Trade and Government Affairs in one of the biggest firms in Brazil.

Languages

• Portuguese
• French
• Spanish

Bar Admissions

• Brazil
• District of Columbia
• Missouri
• U.S. Supreme Court

Education

• Georgetown University (LL.M., 2016)
• Fundação Getulio Vargas (M.Econ., 2013)
• Fundação Getulio Vargas (LL.B., 2010)

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