Robert Gosselink

Robert Gosselink is the founding and Managing Partner of Trade Pacific PLLC, where he focuses on cross-border trade problems and U.S. unfair trade actions. His practice emphasizes antidumping and countervailing duty counseling and litigation for foreign exporters, U.S. importers, multinational companies, trade associations, and sovereign governments. He also advises on customs valuation, audits, classification, country of origin, marking, Sections 232 and 301, and broader international trade policy issues.

Robert earned a J.D. from Boston College in 1994 and an M.A.L.D. from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1994. He was a Fulbright Scholar at Stanford University, attended the Inter-University Program at National Taiwan University in 1987, and earned a B.A. in Chinese Language and Literature from Oberlin College in 1986. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and is admitted in the District of Columbia, Maryland, and New York.

Robert has participated in more than 100 original investigations and reviews under U.S. trade laws and the trade laws of other countries. He has represented companies from China, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Ukraine, Russia, Mexico, and the United Arab Emirates in matters involving steel, seafood, fertilizer, automotive parts, chemicals, and other products. He also litigates trade remedy determinations before the U.S. Court of International Trade and the Federal Circuit.

Robert Gosselink previously spent more than ten years in the international trade group of White & Case LLP before establishing Trade Pacific. His representative work includes antidumping and countervailing duty proceedings, customs disputes, and court challenges involving the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission. He also contributes to local pro bono adoption and youth mentoring efforts, combining international trade practice with professional and community service in Washington, D.C.

Law Office Affiliations

• Managing Partner, Trade Pacific PLLC
• Member, District of Columbia Bar
• Member, Maryland State Bar Association
• Member, New York State Bar Association

Licensed State

• District of Columbia
• Maryland
• New York

Education

• Boston College
  Juris Doctor (JD)
• Tufts University, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy
  M.A.L.D.
• Oberlin College
  Bachelor of Arts (BA)

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