Aqmar Rahman

Aqmar Rahman is a Partner at Trade Pacific PLLC in Washington, DC and an international trade attorney focused on trade litigation and policy. He represents publicly traded and privately owned manufacturers, exporters, and importers in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission. He also advises clients on customs and other cross-border regulatory requirements.

Rahman earned a J.D. from the University of Kansas School of Law in 2015 and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Kansas in 2011. He is admitted in Texas and the District of Columbia and before the U.S. Court of International Trade and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. His education supports a practice centered on trade remedies, administrative procedure, and cross-border compliance.

Rahman advises on duty calculations, country-of-origin requirements, prior disclosures, tariff classifications, valuation rules, and supply-chain compliance involving forced and child labor laws. Before private practice, he spent two years in the antidumping and countervailing duty enforcement division of the U.S. Department of Commerce, where he conducted investigations, reviews, verifications, quantitative analyses, duty-margin calculations, agency determinations, and work related to judicial remands.

Aqmar Rahman has represented clients in steel, food and beverage, renewable energy, and textile industries, including companies from India, Thailand, Korea, Turkey, China, and Taiwan. His representative work includes trade-remedy proceedings, customs challenges, EAPA matters, and litigation before the Court of International Trade. He combines prior agency experience with private-practice advocacy to help clients assess duty exposure, respond to investigations, and manage trade compliance.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Trade Pacific PLLC
• Member, State Bar of Texas
• Member, District of Columbia Bar

Licensed State

• Texas
• District of Columbia

Education

• University of Kansas School of Law
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• University of Kansas
  Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Political Science

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