RC Economics LLC

Our Team

Stan T. Bowen Director of accounting

Stan T. Bowen

Principal, Director of Accounting

540-219-7177

Mr. Bowen is a Certified Public Accountant who specializes in cost accounting support in a variety of international trade disputes. His contributions also include data analysis and reporting, price monitoring, questionnaire response preparation, on-site verification support, and surrogate value research for non- market economy cases.

Mr. Bowen has advised both domestic and foreign firms in proceedings — including antidumping and countervailing investigations, administrative reviews, new shipper reviews, and sunset reviews — before the U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. International Trade Commission. He has supported clients in cases involving agricultural products, lumber, various steel and copper products, chemicals, memory modules, low enriched uranium, printing presses, bearings, and various paper products.

Mr. Bowen previously served as a Senior Cost Accountant in the Office of Accounting, Import Administration, at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has also worked at several private sector firms, including as the Director of Accounting at Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP, as a Senior Economist at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, and as a Senior Consultant at Trade Resources Company. He also worked as a Senior Tax Consultant and Audit Manager for a CPA firm.

Skills & Services:

  • Cost & forensic accounting
  • Cost data development & reporting
  • Financial analysis
  • DOC antidumping verification preparation and participation
  • Surrogate value analysis
  • CV profit analysis
  • Entry valuation
  • Price monitoring & strategy
  • Cattle ranching

Education:

  • James Madison University, B.A., Accounting

Language:

  • English
  • Spanish
Hiroko K. Hagen

Hiroko K. Hagen

Principal, Director of Statistics

703-447-8179

Ms. Hagen is a statistician and an advanced SAS programmer who specializes in the complex analysis of economic data in trade proceedings, including issue areas such as sampling, differential pricing, and particular market situation (PMS) analyses. Ms. Hagen has deep experience in the areas of data mining and analytics. Ms. Hagen also provides statistical and computational support to clients with customs needs. She provides analysis in prior disclosures, reconciliation, and duty drawback calculations.

She has represented both domestic and foreign companies involved in cases in the United States, as well as U.S. companies involved in proceedings in China, South Korea and Brazil. Ms. Hagen has represented both U.S. and foreign companies from a wide array of industries including chemicals, various steel products, agricultural products, furniture, outboard engine, consumer appliances, lumber and more.

Prior to co-founding RC Economics, Ms. Hagen served as the Director of Statistical Analysis at Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP, as a Senior Statistician at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, and as a Senior Consultant at King & Spalding LLP. In addition to her international trade credentials, she served as a business analyst in Credit Card Fraud Prevention Analytic Group at Navy Federal Credit Union, and also worked as a statistical programmer in the Quantitative Analysis Division of the Environmental & Health Group of SAIC, where she provided statistical and computational support for the EPA’s regulatory development efforts and the Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII) study of the USDA.

Skills & Services:

  • Statistical analysis, including PMS, price indexing  & benchmarking, and respondent selection
  • CBP statistical sampling and prior disclosuress
  • SAS DOC margin analysis
  • Surrogate value analysis
  • Duty drawback analysis
  • Fraud & forensic accounting
  • Price monitoring & strategy

Education:

  • George Mason University, M.S., Statistics
  • University of Georgia, B.S., Statistics

Language:

  • English
  • SAS
  • Japanese
Carl P. Moyer

Carl P. Moyer

Principal, Director of Economics

571-225-9990

Mr. Moyer provides support in the development and execution of litigation strategies in AD, CVD, and safeguard proceedings. He is a seasoned practitioner in all aspects of ITC proceedings, including data collection, verification, analysis, testimony, and briefing. In Commerce proceedings, he focuses on SAS- based analysis of price, cost, and financial data, as well as the full range of non-market economy (NME) research needs. He also specializes in new case assessments, providing analysis of trade flows, industry and financial performance, and import pricing.

His range of expertise and case involvement covers a broad array of industrial and agricultural industries, having represented U.S. producers of fresh tomatoes, cattle, glass and glass products, appliances, consumer goods, bearings, rails, steel and specialty steel products, ferro-alloys, industrial belts, pneumatic off-the-road tires, passenger and light truck tires, and various paper products, and engineered process gas turbines/compressors.

Prior to co-founding RC Economics, Mr. Moyer was the Director of Economics at Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP, and as a Senior Economist at Stewart & Stewart.

Skills & Services:

  • Injury analysis
  • ITC verification
  • SAS data processing
  • DOC margin analysis
  • Surrogate value research and analysis
  • CV profit analysis
  • 484f analysis
  • Trade data monitoring
  • Price monitoring & strategy

Education:

  • Washington University in St. Louis, B.A., Economics & Political Science

Language:

  • English
  • SAS
Susan H. Moyer

Susan H. Moyer

Principal, Director of Data Analysis

571-225-9991

Ms. Moyer provides analytical and SAS programming support for all aspects of trade remedy and customs proceedings. She works for both petitioners and respondents in antidumping cases. In respondent matters, Ms. Moyer manages the entire process - from gathering and understanding an organizations’ sales and accounting records, through transforming, reporting, and running the Commerce Department’s programs to estimate duty liabilities. She also relies heavily on SAS to analyze the data and develop strategies to optimize results in proceedings. Ms. Moyer also applies her computer programming skills to clients with customs needs. She provides support in prior disclosures, FTZ audits, value reconciliations, and duty drawback analysis.

Her range of industry experience includes representation of U.S. producers and foreign respondents in cases involving agricultural industries (lumber, biodiesel, tomatoes, honey, canned pineapples, cattle, raspberries, shrimp, pasta, citric acid, flowers and roses), consumer goods (bottom-mount refrigerator freezers, large residential washers, candles, wooden bedroom flooring, multilayered wood flooring, diamond sawblades, mattresses), chemicals and plastics (elemental sulfur, sodium hexametaphosphate, chlorinated isocyanates, aramid fiber, PET film, sheet & strip, polyester staple fiber, activated carbon), steel, alloys and ferroalloys (iron construction castings, oil country tubular goods, seamless refined copper pipe and tube, carbon steel plate, circular welded nonalloy steel pipe, corrosion-resistant carbon steel flat products, grain-oriented steel, stainless steel plate in coils, stainless steel sheet & strip, structural steel beams, welded ASTM A-312 stainless steel pipe, light–walled rectangular pipe and tube, steel concrete reinforcing bar, welded carbon steel pipe, fluid- end blocks, silicomanganese) electronic and technology (SRAMS, crystalline silicon photovoltaic cells), industrial products (ball bearings, magnesia carbon bricks).

Prior to co-founding RC Economics, she worked at several private sector firms, including as the Director of Data Analysis at Cassidy Levy Kent (USA) LLP, as a Manager at ITR LLC, and Program Manager, Data Analysis at Trade Resources Company, and as a Senior Economist at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP.

Skills & Services:

  • Data collection and preparation for respondents antidumping proceedings
  • Data review, SAS margin estimation, submission deficiencies, and issues development for both
    petitioner and respondent
  • Remote and on-site verification preparation and support
  • Surrogate value analysis
  • Price monitoring and margin mitigation strategy
  • Prior disclosures and value reconciliations
  • Duty drawback analysis
  • FTZ audits

Education:

  • George Washington University, MBA, Information Systems
  • Denison University, BA, Economics

Language:

  • English
  • SAS

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