Kenneth Hammer

Kenneth N. Hammer is a partner at Trade Pacific in Washington, DC, whose practice focuses on international trade, customs, litigation, and policy matters. Ken represents publicly traded and privately owned manufacturers, exporters, and importers in antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission. He also handles appeals and trade-related litigation before the U.S. Court of International Trade.

Ken earned a J.D. from Brooklyn Law School in 2007 and a B.S.F.S. from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service in 2001. His education in law and international affairs supports a practice involving cross-border commerce, trade remedy proceedings, customs regulation, and government policy. He is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York and before the U.S. Court of International Trade.

His work includes advising importers on tariff classification, customs valuation, country-of-origin rules, prior disclosures, and other matters before U.S. Customs and Border Protection. Ken also counsels companies on additional duties imposed under Section 301 and Section 232. Representative matters include trade-remedy proceedings involving solar products, steel nails, citric acid, PTFE resins, and other manufactured goods, as well as requests for exclusions from additional steel duties.

Kenneth N. Hammer helps companies navigate trade rules that affect the movement, pricing, and market access of goods entering or leaving the United States. Ken combines regulatory counseling with litigation experience so clients can address customs questions, administrative proceedings, and appeals through a coordinated strategy. His practice supports manufacturers, exporters, and importers managing compliance obligations and commercial risk in a changing international trade environment.

Law Office Affiliations

• Partner, Trade Pacific PLLC
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, New York State Bar Association
• Member, D.C. Bar Association
• Member, Customs and International Trade Bar Association

Licensed State

• District of Columbia
• New York

Education

• Brooklyn Law School
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Georgetown University, Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
  B.S.F.S.

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