Department of Commerce Nomination of Robert E. Herzstein To Be Under Secretary ]or International Trade.

The President today announced his intention to nominate Robert E. Herzstein to be Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, a new position created by Reorganization Plan No. 3 of 1979.

Herzstein is a senior partner with the Washington. law firm of Arnold & Porter. He was born February 26, 1931, in Denver, Colo. He received an A.B. from Harvard College in 1952 and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1955.

From 1955 to 1958, Herzstein was Assistant to the General Counsel of the Department of the Army. He has been with Arnold & Porter since 1958, where his experience has included dealing with problems of foreign trade and international business as well as U.S. constitutional litigation and corporate law.

Herzstein is chairman of the American Bar Association's Committee on International Trade, International Law Section, and former chairman of its Standing Committee on Customs Law. He is vice chairman of the American Society of International Law's Study Panel on International Trade Policy and Institutions and a member of its Study Panel on Effects of Environmental Regulations on International Trade. He is a trustee of Georgetown University's Institute for International and Foreign Trade Law.

Herzstein is the author of "The Role of Law and Lawyers under the New Multilateral Trade Agreements" and various other professional articles and reviews.