Terence P. Stewart

Terence P. Stewart is an American lawyer and managing partner of the law firm Stewart and Stewart. He has authored books on international trade law and testified numerous times before Congressional Committees on trade matters. He is notable for his focus on trade remedy law and has published extensively on law review in publications including the Georgetown Journal of International Law and The Washington Times.

Stewart is an expert on trade remedy law, the World Trade Organization and Chinese trade relations. He is also a former adjunct professor at his alma mater Georgetown University Law Center.

Career
Stewart is the Managing Partner of Stewart and Stewart, having joined his father and founder, Eugene L. Stewart, upon graduation from law school in 1979. Before law school, Terence Stewart briefly worked in both retailing and manufacturing after graduating from the Harvard Business School. While in law school, Mr. Stewart worked as a property manager for the Sursum Corda Cooperative housing community.

He became a partner with his father, Eugene L. Stewart, in 1983 and became Managing Partner in 1986. His practice focuses on international trade matters. Stewart has served as chairman of the United States Court of International Trade Advisory Committee on Rules, president of the Customs and International Trade Bar Association as well as president of the Federal Circuit Bar Association and served on the Advisory Council of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. Additionally, Mr. Stewart was a member of the U.S.-Africa Chamber of Commerce from 1992 to 1995, serving on its board of directors from 1992 to 1995 and as Vice President of the board, from 1994 to 1995, as well as having been a member of Refugee Voices (now known as the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (USCRI)) from 1993 to 1995.

Stewart has been involved in numerous trade remedy cases including antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard and China-specific safeguard matters for a wide array of industries and their workers including paper, tires, steel, bearings, cattle, tomatoes, shrimp, various auto parts, chemicals and other products. In 2009 he filed a China-specific safeguard case on imported passenger car and light truck tires from China for the United Steelworkers, which became the only such case to receive Presidential relief and increased tariffs for three years from September 2009 to September 2012.

On behalf of several associations, including the National Farmers Union and the Consumer Federation of America, Stewart participated in court litigation at the US District Court for the District of Columbia and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit as intervenor for defendants in litigation involving USDA regulations on country-of-origin labeling.

Following trade policy and trade negotiations for clients and assisting clients whose interests are affected by WTO or FTA dispute settlement proceedings, he was selected to be a member of the Permanent Group of Experts under the WTO’s Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures from 2003 to 2006.

For approximately a decade he assisted the Government of Ukraine in its efforts to become a Member of the World Trade Organization.

Stewart has also been active over his career in trade legislation. He also represented the Timken Company as an intervenor-defendant when the constitutionality of the Continued Dumping and Subsidy Offset Act of 2000 was challenged and upheld by the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit.

Additionally, he served as a member of the Board of Directors of Libbey, Inc. from late 1997 through May 2014.

Teaching career
Stewart started teaching at his alma mater, Georgetown University Law Center as an adjunct professor in 1997. He co-taught a graduate seminar on the GATT Uruguay Round negotiations and later the World Trade Organization through 2012.

Awards and recognition
Stewart has received an Honorary Degree Order of Merit of the 3rd Degree from the Government of The Ukraine,