USTR's Ward Appointed Director of New Interagency Trade Enforcement Center
Bradford Ward has been appointed Director of the Interagency Trade Enforcement Center (ITEC) by the U.S. Trade Representative. ITEC is expected to be fully operational, with 50 to 60 staff, by the end of next year, said Commerce Secretary Bryson in remarks to the Steel Manufacturers Association Conference on May 15. Additionally, Bryson appointed Constance Hadley as Deputy Director of ITEC.
Sign up for a free preview to unlock the rest of this article
Export Compliance Daily combines U.S. export control news, foreign border import regulation and policy developments into a single daily information service that reliably informs its trade professional readers about important current issues affecting their operations.
Ward is currently a deputy general counsel at USTR and the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Monitoring and Enforcement. From 1992 to 2009, he was an associate, counsel, then partner in the International Trade Group at Dewey Ballantine (later Dewey & LeBoeuf) in Washington, DC, and from 1986 to 1992, Ward was international trade analyst and program manager at the International Trade Administration conducting and managing countervailing and antidumping duty investigations.
Hadley is currently with the International Trade Administration's Manufacturing and Services division, where she serves as team leader of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).
United Steel Workers statement (dated 05/14/12) praising Ward’s appointment available here.
Ward’s USTR biography available here.
Remarks by Commerce Secretary Bryson at the Steel Manufacturers Association Conference (dated 05/15/12) available here.
(See ITT's Online Archives 12022905 for summary of President Obama's Executive Order creating ITEC, which will be established within USTR and will coordinate matters relating to enforcement of U.S. trade rights under international trade agreements and enforcement of domestic trade laws among USTR and seven or more agencies, including the (1) State Department, (2) Treasury Department, (3) Justice Department, (4) Agriculture Department, (5) Commerce Department, (6) Department of Homeland Security, (7) Office of the Director of National Intelligence; and other agencies as the President, or the USTR, may designate. The EO encouraged the seven agencies to detail or assign their employees to the Center without reimbursement to support the mission and functions of the Center, and stipulated that the Center’s Director will be from USTR and the Center’s Deputy Director will be from the Commerce Department.
See also ITT's Online Archives 12050742 for summary of the Obama Administration's concerns with H.R. 5326, the 2013 Commerce, Justice, and Science and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, for reducing funding levels for several agencies, including ITEC, which the bill does not fully fund. The bill was passed by the House of Representatives on May 10, and its companion bill, S. 2323, is currently before the Senate.)