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BEYOND BRAZIL BLOG
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.
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...
Cattle in Uruguay: where does all the optimism come from?
The Uruguayan cattle sector seems unusually cheerful at the moment. There are good yet complex reasons for this, which we explore here with our team member, Matías Sara. Matías is an agricultural technician with 20 years’ experience in cattle farming and strong...
Doing business in Latin America right now
Things are rather challenging in Latin America right now. But that doesn’t mean we’ll all sit back and wait until it’s over. Precious time and opportunities would be wasted. To give you an idea of business right here right now, since the pandemic started we managed to...