John Zincani, a trade attorney and customs broker, practiced customs law with the international trade law firm of Barnes, Richardson & Colburn since 1997, and joined Kuehne + Nagel’s trade consulting services group in 2002, during which term he also served for four years as Corporate Counsel.  As an associate attorney, John worked on a wide array of customs and regulatory matters ranging from simple ruling request to full audits of importers.  John’s principal areas of expertise cover classification, valuation, compliance reviews, trade preference programs, protests, ruling requests, import/export security, and tariff engineering.  John has also worked with the Italian law firm of DeCapoa, Guiducci e Associati, and is fluent in Italian.  He holds his B.A. in Political Science, as well as his Ph.D. in Italian Literature from New York University, and graduated from Benjamin Cardozo School of law in New York City.