Mr. Brightbill represents clients on all aspects of international trade law and policy including import trade remedies (such as antidumping, countervailing duty and safeguards investigations), global trade policy and trade negotiations, export controls (compliance and licensing), customs matters and international e-commerce issues. Wiley Rein & Fielding partner Timothy C. Brightbill was quoted on the gloablization of the law and the potential conflicts between national and international interests. Wiley Rein & Fielding partner Timothy C. Brightbill was quoted on the U.S. Department of Commerce's decision to deny market-economy status to China. Wiley Rein & Fielding partner Tim Brightbill was quoted in The Wall Street Journal in a report on new agreement between scrap-metal dealers and their customers that foreign trade protections are harming both sides of the US steel-scrap industry and that the US government should seek to remove these trade barriers.