Mr. Brosch is the lead attorney at DTB
Associates, specializing in international and agricultural policy and law. He is listed on the Roster
of External Legal Counsel for the WTO's Advisory Centre on WTO Law (ACWL) making him availabile to provide services to least developed countries and to members of the ACWL if the ACWL cannot
provide support through its own lawyers because of a conflict of interest.
Before forming DTB Associates, Mr. Brosch
served as special advisor on international trade to the Senate Committee on Agriculture Nutrition and Forestry and its Chairman,
Senator Dick Lugar of Indiana. During his tenure on the Committee, Mr. Brosch advised on a wide range of international
trade issues affecting agriculture including WTO negotiations, trade with China, biotechnology, and the impact of U.S. farm
proposals on U.S. international obligations.
From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Brosch served as
Deputy Assistant General Counsel for International Trade in USDA's Office of the General Counsel. In that capacity,
he supervised all aspects of the trade law practice in USDA's legal office. Mr. Brosch personally served as legal advisor
to the USDA teams negotiating the Agriculture and Sanitary and Phytosanitary Agreements in the WTO Uruguay Round. He
also worked on negotiations of bilateral market access agreements with Europe, Japan and Korea. Mr. Brosch also supervised
and participated in the negotiation of the agricultural portions of the North American Free Trade Agreement. In 1998,
Mr. Brosch left the General Counsel's office to become Special Senior Trade Advisor to the Director of Trade Policy, Foreign
Agricultural Service.
Before joining government service, Mr.
Brosch practiced international trade and antitrust law with the Washington firm of Steptoe & Johnson from 1981-89 where
he represented clients in the agricultural, electrical, electronic, computer and telephone industries. Mr. Brosch is
a graduate of the College of William & Mary, and earned his law degree from Catholic University Law School where he received
the Faculty Award for Outstanding Academic Achievement in his graduating class.
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