by Gabriela | Jul 13, 2012 | Argentina, Uruguay
Guest blog: from Denmark to South America – an exporter’s journey If you have children of pre-school age or younger, you are very likely to have bumped into FlexiBath®, the iconic product from Danish company A Real Cool World. This multi-award winning company designs...
by Gabriela | May 29, 2012 | Argentina, Mercosur, Paraguay, Uruguay
Given the many (often unpredictable and usually sudden) changes to Mercosur regulations, including its Common External Tariff (or Arancel Externo Común), we tend to abstain from publishing any news here. However, given the very poor coverage of UK media on these...
by Gabriela | May 22, 2012 | Argentina, Mercosur, Uruguay
Brazil? Argentina? This is the time to look at Uruguay. Uruguay is a small country in terms of population (just over 3 million people) and size (in relation to other Latin American countries, but still not small for European standards). If it is such as small country,...
by Gabriela | Oct 19, 2011 | Argentina, Mercosur, Paraguay, Uruguay
Dealing with Latin American import duties There are many obstacles in exporting to Latin America. However, the one mentioned again and again by British businesses is import duties. They hurt because they are unavoidable, they are nonnegotiable and because anyone with...
by Gabriela | Aug 13, 2011 | Doing business, Uruguay
Following from our recent popular blogpost on “ten things I do every week in Britain that I wouldn’t have done in Uruguay”, here comes the most unexpected version… the things that remain the same, here, there (and everywhere?) 1- Hearing people complain...
by Gabriela | Aug 4, 2011 | Doing business, Uruguay
A bit of fun with some local knowledge – these are ten things I do weekly in Britain that I wouldn’t have done in Uruguay… 1- Fill up the tank. Oh, no. Definitely not. This is something someone else would have done for me. I would have stopped at a petrol...
