Warren H. Maruyama

Warren has assisted clients in successful efforts to address market access barriers in U.S. and foreign free trade agreements (FTAs), such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Trans-Atlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, Brexit, China's WTO accession, and the U.S.-Korea and U.S.-Australia FTAs. He has been selected as an arbitrator for the U.S.-Korea and U.S.-Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreements.

Warren is recognized for his strategic vision, ability to develop sophisticated, innovative solutions to trade challenges, and insider's knowledge of U.S. trade law and the U.S. trade policy process. From 2007 to 2009, he served as USTR General Counsel, overseeing WTO dispute settlement challenges to foreign trade barriers, Doha Round dumping negotiations, and USTR's participation in the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue and U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. He negotiated the so-called "May 10" agreement between the Bush Administration and Congressional Democrats to resolve a decade-long impasse over the role of labor and environmental protections in U.S. FTAs, which cleared the way for approval of President Bush's FTAs.

Warren served on the White House policy staff from 1989-1992, and helped develop President George H.W. Bush's NAFTA, Uruguay Round, Super 301, and Steel Trade Liberalization initiatives. He was an Associate General Counsel at the USTR from 1983-1989, where he successfully litigated GATT and U.S.-Canada FTA disputes, and served as the lead U.S. negotiator for the Uruguay Round Subsidies and Countervailing Measures (SCM) negotiations.