Senior Counsel
Sidley Austin LLP

David Palmeter advises governments and interested private parties in dispute settlement proceedings in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Previously he counseled parties involved in disputes before panels of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), the predecessor of the WTO.

He was involved in WTO dispute settlement from the very start of the organization, advising Singapore in the first WTO dispute. He next advised the Government of Brazil and a Brazilian oil company in the first case to reach a formal decision. He has since represented numerous governments and private parties in major WTO cases involving the antidumping, subsidies, government procurement and agriculture agreements.

Mr. Palmeter was chairman of the International Bar Association’s Trade and Customs Law Subcommittee of the Antitrust and Trade Law Committee from 1989 to 1993. From 1994 to 1998 he was the Committee’s Liaison to GATT, the WTO and the United Nations Committee for Trade and Development. He is co-author of the leading text in the field of WTO dispute settlement, the second edition of which was published in 2004 by Cambridge University Press. He is a regular lecturer on WTO dispute settlement at the International Law Institute, and has lectured on WTO matters at American, Columbia and Georgetown Universities and Dartmouth College in the United States and at The College of Europe, the European University Institute and the Universities of Berne, Liége, Neuchâtel and St. Gallen in Europe. Mr. Palmeter has more than 25 years experience representing importers and exporters in antidumping, countervailing duty and safeguard investigations in the United States.