Meredith M. Broadbent, Chairman of the United States International Trade Commission (USITC), has announced that Michael Anderson has been designated Director, Office of Investigations, at the USITC.

Anderson will direct the planning and conduct of the USITC’s import injury investigations under the antidumping and countervailing duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, the global safeguard provisions of the Trade Act of 1974, and other import injury statutes.

“We are excited that Michael will be leading the Office of Investigations,” said Chairman Broadbent.  “He has been an extremely strong leader for our agency’s economic studies and trade remedy investigations over the years, and his extensive trade remedy experience makes him the perfect person to lead the office going forward.

“Michael plans to continue using technological advances to make our investigative processes more efficient and effective,” she noted.  “He also looks forward to enhancing the availability of information about our trade remedy investigations to the public.  I am very confident that, under his leadership, the Office of Investigations will continue to provide the Commission with the very high-quality investigative reports in the trade remedy area that it always has.”

Anderson has served as the Acting Director of the USITC Office of Industries since March 2015.  In this role, he directed the work of the agency’s professional international trade analysts and supported the Commission in its role as an adviser to Congress and the President on international trade matters.

He was Chief of the Advanced Technology and Machinery Division in the Office of Industries from 2005 to 2015, where he directed general factfinding and probable economic effects investigations on international trade for products ranging from aircraft to environmental goods to information technology.  Prior to this position he served as the economic advisor to Commissioner Jennifer A. Hillman from 1998 to 2005, advising her on import injury investigations under the antidumping and countervailing duty provisions of the Tariff Act of 1930, analysis of free trade agreements and general factfinding investigations, and a variety Commission administrative and information technology initiatives.

Anderson served as an international economist in the USITC’s Applied Economics Division during 1991 to 1998, where he provided pricing and market competition analysis for import injury investigations. He has also worked in the Office of Economic Affairs at the U.S. Trade Representative, where he analyzed trade policy measures in support of U.S. trade negotiations and dispute settlement proceedings at the World Trade Organization.

Anderson holds a master’s degree in international business from George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Utah.

The U.S. International Trade Commission is an independent, nonpartisan, factfinding federal agency that makes determinations concerning the impact of imports and their potential injury on domestic companies.  The USITC staff includes experts who analyze virtually every commodity imported into the United States.  The USITC provides data on international trade to the President, Congress, other federal agencies, and the public.