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Raymond Paretzky is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP based in the Washington, D.C. office. He is a member of the Firm’s Global Trade & Cross Border Strategies Practice Group, where his practice focuses on counseling clients on import relief measures, customs and export controls.
Raymond has extensive experience handling complex international trade matters for U.S. and foreign clients. He has particular expertise in all aspects of U.S. antidumping proceedings involving alleged selling of products below fair value in the United States and has defended U.S. companies accused of dumping in foreign countries. His practice also includes counseling clients on other import relief measures, such as countervailing duties and safeguards; assisting U.S. importers with classification, valuation and other customs matters; and advising U.S. exporters on export controls imposed by the State Department (ITAR), Commerce Department (EAR) and Treasury Department (OFAC). He has represented clients before several U.S. government agencies and federal courts, including the U.S. Court of International Trade and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.
Raymond is the author or co-author of four published articles, including Engineering Regional Pacts to Keep Trade and U.S. Prosperity on a Fast Track, 19 Washington Quarterly 211, Winter 1996 (co-authored with Paula Stern), which called for the expansion of NAFTA to include nations in Latin America, Asia, and Europe; and Jurisdictional Questions in Transnational Litigation in U.S. Courts, 10 University of Pennsylvania Journal of International Business Law 663, Fall 1988, which proposed a framework for judicial consideration of foreign policy issues in lawsuits involving foreign transactions, incidents, or litigants.
Prior to entering private practice, Raymond served as law clerk to the Honorable Douglas P. Woodlock (D. Mass.) in Boston, Massachusetts. In law school, Raymond served as Articles Editor of the Yale Journal of International Law.
Raymond is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, and before the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit., and the U.S. Supreme Court. He is a member of the Washington Council of Human Rights First, formerly known as the Lawyers Committee for Human Rights.
Representative Experience
Trade Remedy
Coated Free Sheet Paper from Korea
Color Televisions from China
Innersprings from China
DRAMs from Korea
Education
Yale University Law School, J.D., 1988
Queens College, B.A. (summa cum laude), 1983
University of Oxford, B.A./M.A (Rhodes Scholarship), 1985 | 