Andrew M. Lanouette

Andrew M. Lanouette

Partner / Ottawa

Andrew Lanouette is a Partner in Cassidy Levy Kent’s Ottawa office and one of Canada’s most consistently recognized international trade lawyers. Since being called to the bar in 2011, he has played a central role in nearly every major Canadian trade remedy proceeding, and he is regularly named by the leading legal directories—Chambers Canada, Chambers Global, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, Lexpert, Lexology, and Who’s Who Legal as a top practitioner in international trade, customs, and export controls and sanctions law. In Chambers Canada’s 2026 guide, Mr. Lanouette was individually ranked among the firm’s leading practitioners for a tenth consecutive year, and he was named Best Lawyers’ “Lawyer of the Year” for International Trade and Finance Law in Ottawa in the 2027 edition, a distinction based on peer feedback. He has also won the Lexology Client Choice Award for two consecutive years, an honour based entirely on client nominations and feedback.

Mr. Lanouette’s practice covers the full spectrum of Canadian trade law, with a particular focus on anti-dumping and countervailing duty litigation, export controls and economic sanctions, customs, and public procurement.

Mr. Lanouette has extensive experience in all aspects of anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings, including judicial reviews and appeals. He has appeared before Canada’s Federal Court of Appeal, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal, and the Canada Border Services Agency, and has advised on complex, multi-party “bet-the-company” cases where significant duties and market access hang in the balance.

As an associate in the firm’s Washington, DC office, Mr. Lanouette appeared before the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. International Trade Commission, giving him firsthand experience with parallel U.S. trade remedy proceedings that frequently run alongside Canadian cases. He also assists clients with tariff classification matters and enforcement issues before the CBSA.

On the regulatory side, he advises clients on export controls and sanctions matters, including permit applications and non-compliance reporting, and on the application of Canada’s Special Economic Measures Act (SEMA) and related sanctions regimes. He also provides advice and representation on international trade treaty compliance and advocacy, including matters arising under the WTO, NAFTA, and CUSMA/USMCA.

Honors

Mr. Lanouette’s work is consistently recognized by the major international legal directories, with clients and peers repeatedly citing his diligence, analytical rigour, and responsiveness.

  • Chambers Canada — Individually ranked for International Trade/WTO for ten consecutive years. “Andrew Lanouette is extremely knowledgeable and responsible.”
  • Chambers Global — Ranked for International Trade in Canada for 10 years. “Andrew’s analytical capabilities are a strong asset. Andrew is very responsive and expert in his field.”
  • The Legal 500 — Ranked as a leading individual for International Trade in Canada. “Andrew Lanouette is a pleasure to work with and effectively collaborates with other partners on complex cases involving multiple parties, developing and executing strategy.”
  • Best Lawyers — Recognized in International Trade and Finance Law in every edition since 2018 (ten years), and named Ottawa “Lawyer of the Year” for International Trade and Finance Law in the 2027 edition, based on peer feedback. “Widely considered to be one of the smartest trade lawyers in the country.”
  • Lexpert — Recognized as a “Consistently Recommended” practitioner in international trade regulation, and named to Lexpert’s Leading 500 Cross-Border Lawyers in International Trade Resolution.
  • Lexology / Who’s Who Legal — Winner of the Lexology Client Choice Award for two consecutive years, based entirely on client nominations and feedback, and recommended in Trade & Customs in both the Canada and Global guides.

Representative Matters

Recent matters in which Mr. Lanouette has served as lead or co-lead counsel include:

  • Cast iron soil pipe (China) — Co-lead counsel for Bibby-Ste-Croix, Canada’s only producer of cast iron soil pipe, in the first-ever anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceeding concerning this product, together with its U.S. affiliate Tyler Pipe and its union.
  • Oil country tubular goods (Mexico, United States, Türkiye, South Korea and the Philippines) — Co-lead counsel for Interpro Pipe and Steel, Welded Tube of Canada and Alberta Tubular Products in their anti-dumping complaint against imports, raising complex causation issues given the respondent’s parallel Canadian production.
  • Concrete reinforcing bar (Bulgaria, United Arab Emirates and Thailand) — Co-lead counsel for Gerdau Ameristeel as co-complainant, turning around an unfavourable preliminary determination concerning imports from the United Arab Emirates and ultimately securing a final determination of dumping in December 2024 and a CITT injury finding in January 2025.
  • Gypsum board (United States) — Counsel for CertainTeed Canada, the only gypsum board producer in Western Canada, in the first five-year expiry review of the anti-dumping finding, in which the CITT found in October 2022 that expiry was likely to result in injury, and co-lead counsel for CertainTeed and its affiliates in a normal value reinvestigation concluded in June 2024 that strengthened the anti-dumping measure.
  • Large power transformers (South Korea) — Co-lead counsel for every Canadian producer of large power transformers in an expiry review that secured five further years of anti-dumping protection in December 2023.
  • Small power transformers (Austria, Chinese Taipei and South Korea) — Co-lead counsel for a coalition of Canadian producers (Northern Transformer, PTI Transformers and Transformateurs Delta Star) in the first-ever anti-dumping investigation concerning small power transformers, resulting in a CITT injury finding in December 2021 for imports from Chinese Taipei and South Korea.
  • Silicon metal (Norway) — Counsel for Elkem AS, Norway’s largest producer of silicon metal, in the combined Canadian anti-dumping and countervailing duty investigation and the parallel U.S. anti-dumping investigation, securing a de minimis dumping margin of 1.8% in Canada and “no injury” determinations in both Canada and the United States (2017).
  • Concrete reinforcing bar (Türkiye) — Lead counsel for Gerdau Ameristeel in a reinvestigation in which the CBSA found, for the first time in its history, that a particular market situation existed in Türkiye. He then successfully defended the result in the Federal Court, which struck the Turkish producers’ application for judicial review, and in the Federal Court of Appeal, which dismissed their appeal from the bench with costs in February 2025.
  • Government of Nova Scotia — Counsel to the Province in the U.S. softwood lumber anti-dumping and countervailing duty proceedings, including maintaining the first-of-its-kind exclusion for lumber produced from Nova Scotia logs; the NAFTA Chapter 11 arbitration brought by Resolute Forest Products, in which the claim against Canada and Nova Scotia was dismissed (2022); and implementation of the WTO settlement in Canada – Measures Governing the Sale of Wine (DS537).
  • Confidential Client — Retained as a testifying expert before the court on the interpretation and application of Canadian economic sanctions law, providing opinion evidence on compliance obligations under Canada’s sanctions regime.

Professional Affiliations

  • Past Chair, Canadian Bar Association, International Law Section
  • Former CBA Liaison, American Bar Association Section on International Law
  • Former Vice President, Canadian Council on International Law
  • Former Executive Member-at-Large, Ontario Bar Association, Young Lawyers’ Division East
  • Former Editorial Board Member, Canadian International Lawyer Journal

Recent Speaking Engagements

  • Co-Chair, “The Eight-Minute Trade and Transportation Lawyer,” Law Society of Ontario CPD Program (December 2025)
  • Speaker, “Best Practices in Safeguarding Confidential Information: Written Filings,” CITT Advisory Committee Workshop (May 2022)
  • “NAFTA: What Lies Ahead,” New York State Bar Association International Law Section Seasonal Meeting (2018)
  • Speaker, “Handling Procurement Complaints Before the Canadian International Trade Tribunal: Process and Strategies from Recent Cases,” The Commons Institute (October 2014)
  • Speaker, “Export Controls: Update from the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Export Controls Division,” CBA International Trade and Investment Committee (January 2013)
  • Speaker, “Force Majeure and the Doctrine of Hardship: Lessons for Public International Law,” Canadian Council on International Law 41st Annual Conference (November 2012)

Publications

  • Interviewee, “Businesses Should Consider Assistance Post-NAFTA,” Law Times (2018)
  • “Canada and the Ambitious Free Trade Agenda: Free Trade Meets Election Politics,” ABA Section of International Law, International Trade Committee Newsletter, Vol. VIII, No. 1 (February 2015)
  • “Case Comment: The Canadian International Trade Tribunal Makes First Finding Concerning Capital Goods in 20 Years,” ABA Section of International Law, International Trade Committee Newsletter, Vol. VII, No. 1 (October 2013)
  • “Canada: high deference, stark reality,” in Müslüm Yilmaz, ed., Domestic Judicial Review of Trade Remedies: Experiences of the Most Active WTO Members (Cambridge University Press, 2013), co-authored with Christopher Kent
  • “2011 Sanctions Review: Observations and How to Stay Abreast of Fast-Changing Developments,” CBA National International Law Section Newsletter (April 2012)

Education

  • LL.B., summa cum laude, University of Ottawa (University Gold Medal; County of Carleton Law Association Scholarship; George E. Ainslie Memorial Prize; Donald Scarth Thorson Award; Rémi Michel Beaupré Memorial Prize; Osgoode Society Prize for Canadian Legal History; McCarthy Tétrault LLP Second Year Prize; University of Ottawa Merit Scholarship; McCarthy Tétrault LLP First Year Prize; Aird & Berlis LLP Prize; Gordon Blair Prize; University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law, Common Law Entrance Scholarship)
  • P.A.P.M., Highest Honours, Carleton University (Carleton University Senate Medal; Arthur Kroeger College Prince Memorial Book Prize; Carleton University Faculty; TRG Fletcher Scholarship)

Bar Memberships

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