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Our Trade Consulting Team. Optimizing Your Trade

Consulting is about people and how they think. Livingston trade consulting is a major international force, of experts hand-picked from across multiple industries and roles. Our job is to think every day about your business goals. And how we can help you achieve them. Productivity. Competitiveness. Value. Through the optimal flow of trade.

Trade expertise. Worldwide.

Wherever you trade, Livingston is at your side. With consulting professionals throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. We’ll help you establish and maintain trade compliance programs, meet audit requirements, recover duties and taxes, and manage border security.

Our experience. Your success.

Experience always pays. We have a long and successful history of augmenting client teams to optimize international trade and minimize risk. Our specialists free up your time and resources to focus on what matters most – doing business.

The complex made simple.

Government audit? There’s no substitute for expert help. Our consulting group will react immediately, guiding the audit, managing compliance issues, and finding solutions to help you avoid penalties.

Drive your team’s results.
With our team’s global trade experience.

Our regional teams support your local needs, from managing European Union in-transit reporting or meeting complex Hong Kong licensing requirements. We can help you obtain relief from duty and taxes through free trade agreements, special trade programs, Inward Processing Relief/Outward Processing Relief or IMMEX. You’ll maintain the lowest total landed cost for your end-to-end global supply chain. Every time you trade. Everywhere you trade.

Cora Di Pietro

Cora Di Pietro

Vice President / General Manager

Cora is highly knowledgeable in all areas of valuation, tariff classification, free trade agreements, security regulations, marking rules, export controls and tax. She has been providing expert advice related to day-to-day international trade compliance issues to clients in a number of industries for over 20 years.

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Canada

Michelle Stokes

Michelle Stokes

Eastern Region, Canada

Michelle leads a team that helps clients minimize their exposure to customs risks. With over 25 years of experience, Michelle specializes in free trade agreements, valuation, import tariffs, trusted trader programs, cross border security initiatives, eManifest and eCommerce.

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Jeff Fraser

Jeff Fraser

Western Region, Canada

Jeff’s team focuses on helping companies minimize risk and achieve higher levels of customs compliance. Jeff has extensive experience in tariff classification, international trade agreements, customs valuation, appeals and dispute settlement, refunds, duty drawbacks, sales and excise taxes.

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Michael Zobin

Michael Zobin

Quebec and Atlantic Regions, Canada

Michael’s team focuses on helping companies minimize risk and achieve higher levels of customs compliance. Michael has extensive knowledge in tariff classification, international trade agreements, customs valuation, appeals and dispute settlement, and duty recovery.

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United States

Jamie R. Adams

Jamie R. Adams

Eastern Region, U.S.

Jamie is responsible for assessing the trade compliance needs of clients and prospects and outlining solutions and services to help them. Jamie’s expertise includes full end-to-end process mapping; supply chain data analytics, cost minimization and cycle-time reduction.

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Jill Hurley

Jill M. Hurley, Esq.

Western Region, U.S.

Jill oversees U.S. import and export projects and offers compliance, risk management and penalty mitigation solutions. She specializes in export licensing requirements, supply-chain security, penalty mitigation projects, anti-dumping and countervailing duties, and intellectual property orders

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Brian Henkels

Brian Henkels

U.S. Duty Drawback

Brian’s team helps companies maximize their duty drawback recovery and minimize risks to achieve higher levels of customs compliance. Brian’s expertise spans customs audit assistance, compliance reviews and preparation of customs protests and ruling letters.

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Europe and Asia

David Merrit

David Merritt

Europe and Asia

David has extensive experience in the development, preparation, and communication of compliance policies, and in reviewing and re-engineering supply chains and compliance processes. An EU expert, David has thorough knowledge and understanding of U.S. extra territorial controls and regulations affecting international trade.

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Gavin Everson

Gavin Everson

Europe and Asia

Gavin Everson has over 35 years of experience in customs, international trade and logistics management, particularly in implementing customs and logistics processes and systems. He has responsibility for advising and delivering Customs solutions to Livingston’s EMEA clients.

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Steven Guo

Steven Guo

Asia

Steven Guo is responsible for Asia GTM Operations and specifically, consulting service in China. He has over 24 years of experience in China customs affairs, and his specific areas of expertise are China Customs related operations and Hong Kong import and export control.

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Mexico & Latin America

Rody Camacho

Rody Camacho

Mexico & Latin America

Rody has a wealth of experience in trade compliance and Mexican import/export operations management and regulations, with a particular emphasis on risk assessment and process improvements. His expertise extends to South American compliance principles.

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