American producers who make and grow things here depend on one market above all others: their own.
When that market is lost to dumped, subsidized, surging, or evasive imports, what disappears is not only sales. It is the plants, the ranches, the jobs, and the know-how that took generations to build. This practice exists to defend the home market. I represent domestic manufacturers, growers, and the associations that speak for them, and I bring to that work both the tools of trade law and the advocacy needed to win in Washington.
What I do
I help American producers keep their home market. That starts with watching it closely: tracking import volumes, prices, and declared values for your products, so a surge, a sudden price collapse, or a pattern of evasion is spotted early rather than after the damage shows up in your order book. When the evidence is there, I put the right tool to work. That can mean a Section 201 safeguard petition, action under Section 232 or Section 301, a customs enforcement case against duty evasion or undervaluation, a tariff classification or statistical breakout request, or direct advocacy before Congress and the executive branch. The goal in every case is the same: to make sure producers who build here can compete fairly at home.
Current matter
Lamb Meat Global Safeguard Investigation
USITC Inv. No. TA-201-80
Lead Counsel to Protect American Lamb, a group of more than 600 American lamb growers seeking relief from surging lamb imports. The USITC's serious-injury hearing is scheduled for October 16, 2026.
About
Charles Benoit spent six years as Trade Counsel to the Coalition for a Prosperous America, the national coalition of domestic manufacturers, farmers, ranchers, and workers. Before that, he advised clients on trade matters in private practice from 2011 to 2020. His writing on tariffs and industrial policy has appeared in MarketWatch and The American Conservative.