by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 18, 2021 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Argentina, General
The government in Argentina announced last night (they have a habit of announcing meaningful measures at about 10pm) a ban on beef exports for 30 days. The objective of this measure, they say, is to help contain inflation, which reaches a staggering 50% (ish). The...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 31, 2021 | Doing business, General
A recent Made in Britain event on Twitter (it’s called Made in Britain hour and you can learn about it following them @MadeinBritainGB) prompted me to write a short blog post on ways in which you can improve your social media to make it more export-friendly. Clearly,...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 22, 2021 | Doing business, Energy, mining & infrastructure, General, Manufacturing, Mercosur, Uruguay
In a recent blog post, I controversially mentioned that I have a weakness for cable cleats and I must explain myself before you think I’m (way too) weird. It all started about 9 years ago when I visited Ellis Patents in Rillington (near Malton in North Yorkshire) – I...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Mar 22, 2021 | Doing business, General, Mercosur, Uruguay
More often than not, we work with technical products that most of you out there hardly get to see: cable cleats, pollination bags, nutrition products for animals, cleaning products for farms, power-transmission equipment, and so on. We often work in market research,...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Feb 7, 2021 | Doing business, General
As our readers will know, we are firm believers in the benefits of professional translations. But clients often ask why translation costs so much. So this month we’ve invited Paul Bondsfield and Antonios Koutsounouris from Planet Languages, a full-service...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Dec 7, 2020 | Doing business, General
Last month, we wrote about virtual trade missions for those in charge of organising them at embassies, trade promotion bodies, associations and other kind of organisations. We promised we’d also write a post for SMEs who participate in those missions to Latin America,...
