Joseph C. Pickard

How Joseph Helps Clients

Joe has more than 20 years of experience providing expert research and analysis in the fields of economics, international trade and finance, statistics, commodities, and manufacturing that clients utilize to protect and grow their businesses. Joe’s economic and international trade expertise provides critical support to Buchanan’s trade remedy work covering antidumping (AD), countervailing duty (CVD), and safeguard investigations. As a widely respected economist with extensive domestic and international consultancy, government and association management experience, Joe puts his broad range of research, analytical, and communications experience to work for clients, along with his extensive network of industry and government connections.

Joe previously served as the Chief Economist and Director of Commodities for the Recycled Materials Association (formerly known as ISRI), economist for the International Copper Study Group based in Lisbon, Portugal, and as a research and international trade analyst at Slayton & Associates. He has served as an advisor to CEO’s and C-suite executives on current and future economic and market conditions and as a non-partisan advisor to the U.S. Commerce Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on trade matters.

What Clients Can Expect

Clients highly value Joe’s broad range of knowledge with respect to domestic and international economic and market conditions, his timely responsiveness to their immediate and longer-range needs, and forward-looking guidance on remedy opportunities. Joe’s attention to detail and reputation for accuracy are some of his most respected skills.    

I put my economic and international trade expertise to work in support of U.S. manufacturing and job growth.

Outside the Office

Outside the office, Joe is often on the sidelines of his children’s many, many soccer games, walking his dogs, cooking the family dinner, and (time permitting) reading a good book.

Proof Points

• Joe has testified before the World Trade Organization, the U.S. International Trade Commission, the U.S. Treasury Department/Internal Revenue Service, and other government bodies.
• He has served as an advisor to the U.S. Commerce Department and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative on Industry Trade Advisory Committee No. 5 (Nonferrous Metals and Critical Minerals) and the Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee.
• Joe is a highly effective communicator and is frequently asked to speak at major industry and government events. He has been interviewed by a wide variety of news outlets including The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Bloomberg, The New York Times and more than 30 U.S. radio programs.
• He holds a master’s degree in economics from Virginia Tech with a specialization in international trade and finance.
• Joe’s research output includes more than 500 publications and 250 presentations and testimony.
• In recognition of his expertise communicating the key connections between economic output, international trade, manufacturing growth and demand for recycled materials, Joe was named as one of the Top 100 recycling industry leaders in the world by Recycling International in 2023.