Frederick P. Waite

Practice Areas

• Corporate and Business Organizations
• Government Relations
• International
  • Customs Laws and Import Compliance
  • Trade Remedy and Import Relief

Industries

• Manufacturing
• Trade Associations
• Transportation and Logistics

Education

• Harvard Law School, J.D., 1971, cum laude
• Princeton University, A.B.,1967, cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa
• Australian National University, Research on Foreign and Defense Policy, Fulbright Scholarship, 1967-1968

Bar & Court Admissions

• District of Columbia
• New York
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
• U.S. Court of International Trade
• U.S. District Court for the Northern District of New York

Mr. Waite is of counsel in the Vorys Washington, D.C. office and a member of the corporate and finance practice group.  He specializes in international trade and customs law.  Mr. Waite represents foreign and domestic manufacturers, trade associations, multinational trading companies, and domestic industrial consumers in antidumping, countervailing duty, safeguard, and other trade-related proceedings.

Career highlights include:

• Representing successful appellants in two precedent-setting decisions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit regarding the U.S. International Trade Commission's injury and causation analyses in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings: Gerald Metals v. United States (1997) and Bratsk Aluminum Smelter v. United States (2006)
• Representing a Russian metals producer in the first U.S. antidumping proceeding which treated Russia as a market-economy country

Mr. Waite is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the New York Bar and the Wire Association International. Mr. Waite is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia and New York.

Mr. Waite has spoken at seminars for the steel and metals industries on U.S. antidumping and countervailing duty laws and has presented courses to the importing community on U.S. customs law and procedures.

Mr. Waite received his J.D. cum laude from Harvard Law School and his A.B. cum laude from Princeton University where he was Phi Beta Kappa.  He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship and attended the Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.

Publications

• “Customs Service Seeks to Improve Trade Compliance Through Nationwide Prototype Test,” Metropolitan Corporate Counsel, 1999 (7 The Metropolitan Corp. Couns. 15)
• “Responsible Controls or 'Nets to Catch the Wind'? The Commerce Department's New U.S. Controls on Exports of Chemical Precursors,” California Western International Law Journal, 1991-1992 (22 Cal. W. Int’l L.J. 193)
• “National Security Review of Foreign Investments in the United States,” Florida Journal of International Law, 1991 (6 Fl. J. Int’l L. 191)

• "Latin America"
• "Buy American"