Is it – finally – the right time to export to Argentina?
So what has happened so far to encourage you to think about starting to export to Argentina again? Just three examples will provide a more positive outlook.
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The TPP: What does it mean for Canadian international trade professionals?
For Canada, the agreement will likely result in an increase in both imports and exports, including products such as machinery, canola, beef, pork, minerals and seafood. Canadian companies will gain a competitive advantage over exporters from non-TPP countries who must still face the existing tariffs, while the same will be true for organizations importing goods to Canada.
Environmental groups are unhappy about TPP’s failure to address climate change
As environmental groups and analysts make headway with reading through and analyzing the agreement, some groups have come out resolutely against the agreement, arguing that tying these economies together more tightly will make it harder to pass more stringent environmental relations in the future and expressing concern about the TPP’s failure to address climate change.
Two very different approaches successful exporters use to expand internationally
In a recent conversation with a Canadian company wishing to expand internationally, I learned some of the questions that potential exporters face and some of the very different strategies used by successful exporters.
South Africa may remain in AGOA after addressing Obama’s ultimatum over U.S. poultry
On November 5, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a letter to South Africa, saying the U.S. would suspend duty-free treatment of South African agricultural goods exported to the U.S. should South Africa fail to address what the U.S. government saw as barriers to American products.
Overcoming the multifaceted obstacles of cross-border returns
While returns are difficult enough to manage locally and domestically, complications multiply when managing cross-border returns.
U.S. sugar producers get favourable trade ruling against Mexican imports
A long-running trade dispute between the United States and Mexico over the American sugar market has been resolved by the U.S. International Trade Commission (U.S. ITC), which ruled in late October that Mexican imports of the commodity had hurt U.S. sugar producers.
Joel Fernandez, CITP|FIBP – Executive Director
Joel Fernandez is the Executive Director of the Global Chamber in Miami, Florida, and the Vice Chairperson of the Environmental Impact Committee in his town, and an international trade entrepreneur with his own company, Intradeservice LLC.
A marathoner’s tips for a race to international trade success
Sometimes the status quo, even if it’s worked in the past, may lead to some of the pitfalls of exporting and importing instead of continued international trade success.
Softwood lumber trade is first U.S.-Canada issue facing newly elected Prime Minister Trudeau
Now that Trudeau has assumed his new role as Canadian Prime Minister, he will first have to contend with a long-burning trade issue between the two countries: that of softwood lumber.