Mary Jane Alves

Practice Areas

International Trade: antidumping, countervailing duty, and safeguard actions, with particular emphasis on injury proceedings; related litigation and dispute resolution

Career

As a partner at Cassidy Levy Kent, maintained a solid injury record working with various team permutations.

- Defended U.S. mattress industry in successful injury investigation of less than fair value imports from China and secured relief from whack-a-mole imports in subsequent injury investigation of subsidized Chinese imports and dumped imports from seven additional countries

- Maintained orders for U.S. industry in contested multi country five-year injury reviews of steel products such as OCTG, CORE, and CRS

- Obtained relief for U.S. tomato industry in an injury investigation that began two decades earlier

- Achieved first ever extensions of two U.S. global safeguard measures

- Navigated various single and multicountry five-year reviews into expedited reviews, yielding an additional 5 years of import relief at reduced cost to a range of domestic industries, such as sugar, nickel plate, seamless SLP pipe, and HFC blends

- Prevailed for respondents with negative injury determinations in investigations of magnesium from Israel and newsprint from Canada

- Attained continuation of order with an affirmative five-year review injury determination regarding frozen fish fillets from Vietnam

- Achieved orders in original injury investigations of fluid end blocks, aluminum wire and cable, copper pipe and tube, and sodium nitrite

Professional Memberships

New York and District of Columbia bars; United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and United States Court of International Trade bars; Co-Chair, International Trade Committee, Customs and International Trade Bar Association (“CITBA”); former Co-Chair, Continuing Legal Education & Professional Responsibility, CITBA; member, Women in International Trade; Member, Judicial Conference Planning Committee 15th Judicial Conference of the U.S. Court of International Trade