North American Free Trade Agreements

James Holbein is the Supervisory Attorney for Docket Services at the U.S. International Trade Commission. He is responsible for ensuring the accuracy of all of the materials provided to the Commission for Title VII litigation (material injury determinations for antidumping and countervailing duty matters, safeguards, special China safeguards and other investigations). The unit also handles all of the materials filed for Section 337 matters involving enforcement of intellectual property rights against foreign goods. Mr Holbein has also served as President of Global Trade Consulting LLC, a Washington DC firm specializing in regional integration, international trade policy, trade regulation, homeland security, customs, investment, and alternative dispute resolution. He is a former U.S. Secretary of the NAFTA Secretariat at the U.S. Department of Commerce responsible for managing an international dispute settlement process for 10 years and is also an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the Washington College of Law at American University. Nick Ranieri has been a Law Professor and Center Director at the Institutio Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, where he taught courses on NAFTA, arbitration and related topics. He has also been an arbitrator and assistant to panels in Canadian, American and Mexican Trade cases under NAFTA Chapter 19.