Saving Free Trade:
The Case against Antidumping

October 27, 2003

Speaker Biographies

Rubens Antonio Barbosa became ambassador of Brazil to the United States in June 1999, in addition to having served in a wide variety of international affairs positions since 1960. From 1988 to 1993, he played a key diplomatic role in the conception, construction, and management of Mercosur, the Southern Common Market. At this time, he was the first Brazilian ambassador to ALADI, the Latin American Integration Association, and then became the Brazilian under secretary general of foreign relations for trade, regional integration, and economic affairs. His next assignment was as ambassador to the Court of St. James in London from 1994 to 1999. While serving in this role, he was also president of the Association of Coffee Producing Countries.

Claude E. Barfield

is a resident scholar and the director of trade and science policy studies and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including the recently published Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization. In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a costaff director of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Gary N. Horlick

is a partner in the law firm of Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering. He teaches international trade law at Yale and Georgetown and served as the first chairman of the World Trade Organization’s Permanent Group of Experts dealing with subsidies. He was responsible for U.S. investigations of antidumping and countervailing duty complaints as deputy assistant secretary of Commerce for import administration and served as international trade counsel for the U.S. Senate Finance Committee.

J. Michael Finger

is a resident fellow at AEI studying international trade policy, development, and the GATT/WTO system. He previously held the position of lead economist for the trade policy research group at the World Bank. He has served on the faculties of the University of Bern, Stockholm School of Economics, and Duke University. He has worked as an economist at the Treasury Department, the United Nations, and the U.S. Tariff Commission. His books include Antidumping: How It Works and Who Gets Hurt; The Uruguay Round: A Handbook; and most recently, Institutions and Trade Policy.

William C. Lane

has been with Caterpillar since 1975 and is currently the company’s Washington director for government affairs. Mr. Lane is a cochair of the U.S. Chile Free Trade Coalition and vice president of the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, a group supporting a robust international affairs budget. Previously, Mr. Lane founded and chaired the USA Engage Coalition and was a cochair of U.S. Trade, a coalition supporting trade promotion authority. He has held numerous leadership positions with the Business Roundtable, National Foreign Trade Council, and Alliance for GATT NOW. During the late 1980s, he founded and led the Zero Tariff Coalition and Coalition of American Steel Using Manufacturers. Mr. Lane is a member of the U.S. Industry Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and a board member of Partners for Democratic Change.

Aluisio G. De Lima-Campos

has been economic adviser to six Brazilian ambassadors in Washington since 1981. His focus is on trade policy issues. During his twenty-plus years of service, he has represented the Brazilian government in bilateral and multilateral fora and in trade negotiations. He has written extensively on questions regarding international trade law, agricultural subsidies, and regional and multilateral trade negotiations. His articles are published in Brazil and in the United States.

Brink Lindsey

is the director of the Center for Trade Policy Studies at the CATO Institute. Mr. Lindsey is the author of an important new book on globalization, Against the Dead Hand: The Uncertain Struggle for Global Capitalism (John Wiley & Sons, 2002). His writings have been published in the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, the New Republic, National Review, the Weekly Standard, and the Journal of World Trade. Mr. Lindsey has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, CNBC, BBC, National Public Radio, and PBS and is also a contributing editor at Reason magazine. An attorney with extensive experience in international trade regulation, he was formerly director of regulatory studies at the Cato Institute and senior editor of Regulation magazine.

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