Ms. Irene H. Chen represents and counsels foreign producers and U.S. importers in international trade matters. Prior to entering private practice, Ms. Chen spent four years as an attorney in the Office of Chief Counsel for Trade Enforcement and Compliance at the U.S. Department of Commerce. Ms. Chen’s work at the Commerce Department included advising the Import Administration division on its antidumping and countervailing duty investigations and reviews and customs protests. Ms. Chen also represented the United States in international trade litigation matters, including cases at the U.S. Court of International Trade, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the World Trade Organization. While at Commerce, Ms. Chen served as a legal advisor to the Customs Liaison unit of the Import Administrative, rendering legal advice on matters pertaining to Customs import rulings.

Prior to her work at the Department of Commerce, Ms. Chen served as a staff attorney in the Office of the General Counsel at the U.S. International Trade Commission, where she advised the Commission on matters pertaining to injury determinations in antidumping and countervailing duty investigations. Ms. Chen has also worked at the law firms of Baker Donelson, LP, in Tennessee and Ding & Ding, in Taipei, Taiwan.

Ms. Chen is admitted to the following Bars and Courts:

Virginia State Bar
Maryland State Bar
District of Columbia Bar
New York State Bar (inactive)
Tennessee State Bar (inactive)

U.S. Court of International Trade
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland
U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia
U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Indiana

Ms. Chen has a JD from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and a BA of Economics from Columbia University. She is fluent in Mandarin and English.