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Our blog posts are designed to bridge the gap between your business and Latin America to help you make informed and timely business decisions. We are based on the ground right here in the region so we use our daily experience of working directly with local companies to give you up-to-date and relevant news and valuable business and cultural insights.
How difficult is it to do business with Latin America?
We started off this year with the intent to share with our blog and newsletter readers one stat-based article a month. We began with the Prosperity Index and Transparency International’s Corruption Perception Index - and we even wrote about why and how to use stats...
Organising a virtual trade mission to Latin America?
I’m not sure about you, but I’m starting to come to terms with the idea that we will not be able to travel internationally much next year, at least for the first six months. That means that we are very likely to see the number of virtual trade missions grow and,...
Exporting to Latin America: prepare for post-Brexit trade
Guest post by Ioanna Orfanidi, Customs Broker at Chamber International Brexit and the Covid-19 pandemic have reminded the UK how much it relies on other countries for supplies and for export sales. The European Single Market and Customs Union, together with the...
Can Latin American exporters be your best clients?
We get asked often about the pandemic situation in Latin America and how it’s affecting business. It’s tough, we know. But there are some opportunities. Rather than looking at specific countries or sectors, another way of identifying current (and future) opportunities...
Uruguay pulled it off: a very successful ExpoPrado show
Uruguay’s management of the COVID-19 pandemic has been praised worldwide. With fewer than 2,000 cases and less than 50 deaths so far, the relatively small South American nation is the exception once again. Economic recovery has farming at its core: agriculture,...
Free trade zones (some interesting facts from Uruguay)
(photo: Zonamerica) We get asked very often about free trade zones (FTZs) in South America, more particularly in Mercosur, and more often than not in Uruguay. We have covered this topic before in our blog so today we bring you just some interesting facts about free...