Matthew A. Goldstein

Matthew A. Goldstein is a Washington D.C. Attorney with a practice focused on U.S. Export Controls, Trade Sanctions, and related International Trade matters. He was formerly the Export Control Industry Group Coordinator for the Law Firm of Snell & Wilmer LLP and a Senior Associate at the Law Firm of Miller & Chevalier Chartered. He now serves as the Principal of Matthew A. Goldstein, PLLC and as Of Counsel to Fluet Huber + Hoang, PLLC.

Prior to starting his own law firm, Matthew was the Team Leader of contractor support at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Science and Technology Directorate's Export Control Group where he served as an export controls compliance subject matter expert for DHS and coordinated agency component, federal laboratory, and division-wide compliance with the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR). In this role, Matthew reviewed draft agency rulemaking and made recommendations for agency positions in the President’s Export Control Reform Initiative and participated in White House and Department of Defense meetings on control list transfers. He also provided review and recommendations for agency positions on commodity jurisdiction requests staffed to DHS by the Department of State.

Matthew has represented manufacturers in exports to Africa, Australia, Canada, Europe, Singapore, South Korea, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. This work includes analysis and consultations on commodity jurisdiction and commodity classification; preparation and filing of license applications, advisory opinion requests, and other submissions to the Department of Commerce Bureau of Industry and Security, the Department of State Directorate of Defense Trade Controls, and the Department of Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control; the development and implementation of corporate trade compliance programs; and company training.

Matthew is a frequent speaker on the topic of export controls, with past speaking engagements before the Thunderbird School of Global Management, U.S. Commercial Service, the Arizona Department of Commerce, and the Arizona State Bar. He has also authored numerous articles on export controls and homeland security topics with a variety of publishers, to include Thomson Reuters, Wolters Kluwer, the American Bar Association, Homeland Defense Journal, and WorldECR.