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Aaron Cantler
Senior Economic Consultant
Mr. Cantler specializes in unfair trade proceedings before the U.S. Department of Commerce (“DOC”), providing economic analysis and strategic support to domestic petitioners and foreign respondents. He has more than a decade of experience in trade remedy investigations and administrative reviews involving a wide range of manufactured and industrial products.
Mr. Cantler has extensive experience working with respondents to develop, manage, and analyze the complex sales and cost of production databases mandated by DOC in antidumping proceedings. He has also worked closely with petitioners to prepare numerous antidumping duty petitions, with significant experience in all aspects of the economic analysis underlying petition allegations. He has substantial experience applying cost and financial accounting principles in the preparation and analysis of cost of production data and related allocation and reconciliation issues. Mr. Cantler works closely with clients and counsel to develop case strategies and to identify reporting, accounting, and methodological issues throughout DOC proceedings with the goal of obtaining the best possible result for the client. His experience extends through preparation for and participation in DOC verifications.
Mr. Cantler has significant experience in non-market economy (“NME”) proceedings, including the analysis of factors of production, surrogate values, surrogate financial ratios, and other issues arising under DOC’s NME methodology. His experience also includes work on circumvention inquiries. Mr. Cantler assists with economic analysis in countervailing duty proceedings, including the analysis of government programs and benchmark data.
Mr. Cantler received his B.S. in Financial Economics and a Certificate in Managerial Accounting from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County in 2015.