Practice Areas

International Trade
Antidumping
Countervailing Duties
World Trade Organization
Commercial Litigation
Corporate
Commercial Real Estate 

Appointments

Associate Member, U.S. Department of Commerce District Export Council, Kansas City District, 2009-present

Clerkships

Hon. Delissa A. Ridgway,
U.S. Court of International Trade
2003-2005

Hon. Norman H. Jackson,
Utah Court of Appeals
2000-2002


Education

J.D., cum laude, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Brigham Young University 2000

B.A., Economics, Brigham Young University, 1996


Bar Admissions

U.S. Court of International Trade
Utah
Colorado
Wyoming


Languages

Spanish

Mr. Mark B. Lehnardt was an attorney for the U.S. Department of Commerce for three and a half years.  At the Department of Commerce, he advised the Import Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce in its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and reviews.  His advice include on-site counseling at official verifications in the Republic of Indonesia and the People’s Republic of China.  While at the Department of Commerce, Mr. Lehnardt represented the United States in international trade matters, including litigation at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the World Trade Organization.  He also served as a member of the Import Administration’s delegation to the WTO's Antidumping Committee, evaluating the antidumping and countervailing duty laws of several foreign countries for compliance with the Agreement on the Implementation of Article VI of GATT 1994, the Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures, and the Agreement on Safeguards.   

Mr. Lehnardt’s work at the Department of Commerce included advising the Office of Textile Agreements with regards to the textile provisions of the U.S.-Chile Free Trade Agreement and the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement.  He also received a certificate for the Department of Commerce’s International Trade Officer training on all of the international trade programs and agencies of the U.S. government. 

While at the Department of Commerce, Mr. Lehnardt observed that the importing community is the least informed group among those with an interest at stake in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings.  Despite being under-informed, importers by law are fully liable for paying antidumping and countervailing duties.  Now out of the government, Mr. Lehnardt provides current information about antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings to the importing community through the website www.ImporterHelp.com, and tweets at www.twitter.com/importerhelp.

Mr. Lehnardt also worked in-house at a multinational corporation overseeing the international corporate, international trade, and Latin America legal affairs, including travel to Venezuela and Mexico to resolve litigation matters and government investigations into the actions of the subsidiary and independent distributors.  Among international trade matters he handled, Mr. Lehnardt resolved U.S. customs matters, advised the company on anti-boycott provisions, and authored and trained company employees on the company’s foreign corrupt practices act compliance policy. 

Mr. Lehnardt worked for a law firm in Lima, Peru, lived for two years in Spain, and has traveled for business and pleasure throughout the world, including Switzerland, Mexico, Venezuela, Puerto Rico, Hawaii, French Polynesia, China, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Israel, Jordan, and Egypt.  He speaks fluent Spanish.


Antidumping & Courntervailing Duty Proceedings

Industries:  Agriculture, Aquaculture, Chemical, Electronics, Paper, Steel

Countries:  Argentina, Canada, Chile, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam

Products:  Aluminum Extrusions, Anti-Friction Bearings, Color Televisions, Corrosion-Resistant Carbon Steel Flat Products, Drill Pipe, Ironing Tables, Kitchen Appliance Shelving & Racks, Lemon Juice, Coated Free Sheet Paper, Polyester Staple Fiber, Polyethylene Retail Carrier Bags, Raspberries, Shrimp, Sodium Nitrite, Standard Steel Fasteners, Steel Wire Garment Hangers, Welded Steel Pipe



Representative Cases

-   Advanced Tech. & Materials Co. v. United States, Slip Op. 2009-115 (Ct. Int’l Trade Oct. 15, 2009)
-   Uniroyal Marine Exp., Ltd. v. United States, 626 F. Supp. 2d 1312 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2009)
-   KYD, Inc. v. United States, 613 F. Supp. 2d 1371 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2009)
-  Universal Polybag Co. v. United States, 577 F. Supp. 2d 1284 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2008)
-   Huvis Corp. v. United States, Slip Op. 08-83 (Ct. Int’l Trade Aug. 5, 2008), aff’d 570 F.3d 1347 (Fed. Cir. 2009)
-   Parkdale Int’l Ltd. v. United States, 581 F. Supp. 2d 1334 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2007)
-  Dofasco, Inc. v. United States, 519 F.Supp.2d 1284 (Ct. Int’l Trade, 2007)
-  Nucor Corp. v. United States, 516 F.Supp.2d 1348 (Ct. Int’l Trade 2007)
-  Parkdale Int’l Ltd. v. United States, 508 F. Supp. 2d (Ct. Int’l Trade 2007)


Presentations & Teaching

Internationl Business Transactions, Adjuct Professor, University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School, Kansas City, Missouri, Spring 2011

Co-coach, ELSA WTO Moot Court Competition, University of Missouri at Kansas City Law School, Kansas City, Missouri, November, 2009 - present.

"Is It Over? What Termination of the Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Invetigations of Standard Steel Fasteners from China and Taiwan Means for Your Business," Fastener Technology International magazine, December, 2009

"How the Antidumping & Countervailing Duty Investigations into Standard Steel Fasteners from China and Taiwan Will Affect You," North Coast Fastener Association, Cleveland, Ohio, October, 2009

Guest Lecturer, "Current Issues In U.S. Countervailing Duty Law," University of Missouri at Kansas City School of Law, Kansas City, Missouri, October 2009

Guest Lecturer, "Current Issues in U.S. Antidumping Duty Law," Baker University, Baldwin City, Kansas, September, 2009

“Litigation Issues in U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Law,” Dominican Republic – United States Technical Exchange, Washington, D.C., August 2008

“Procedural Aspects of U.S. Antidumping and Countervailing Duty Law,” Conference on AD/CVD/Safeguard Investigation Processes In the US: A Strategic Approach, Inter-American Development Bank and U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Washington, D.C., May 2008

Instructor, International Public & Commercial Arbitration, University of Wyoming, College of Law, Laramie, Wyoming, Aug. 2003 – Feb. 2004; Brigham Young University, J. Reuben Clark Law School, Provo, Utah, May 2000 – April 2002      


Awards & Special Training

2007 Attorney of the Year, Office of Chief Counsel for Import Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce

Interagency Trade Officer Training, U.S. Department of Commerce, 2008