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THE DESK OF FOREIGN NETWORK IBS – SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES

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THE DESKS OF FOREIGN NETWORK IBS – SERVICES AND OPPORTUNITIES

Various DESKS report the active Services in the country and the Business Opportunities, including the sectors, and the types of companies that could get major benefits in terms of Export or Foreign Direct Investment in the territory, both for the potential of the market and for any Discounts or Funds made available by Local Authorities or by the competent Institutions .

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AFRICA – ECOWAS + CEDEAO MAURITANIA ANGOLA

ECOWAS – CEDEAO: Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cape Verde, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
Congo, Rwanda, Zambia (case by case basis)
Uganda

THE AMERICAS

NORTH AMERICA, CENTRAL AMERICA AND ASSOCIATED ISLANDS
Canada
USA, Panama
Dominican Republic

SOUTH AMERICA / LATIN COUNTRIES + SPAIN
Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, Spain
Chile

ASIA

Kazakhstan

FAR EAST
China , Incoming in Italy buyer and foreign operators’ from China LINK
Japan
Singapore
South Korea
ASEAN: Cambodia, Philippines, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Vietnam

EUROPE

Albania
Benelux ( Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands )
EAST EUROPE : Bulgaria, Poland , Hungary + (Trade Missions Abroad in Bulgaria LINK )
France + ( Monte Carlo, French Riviera real estate )
Germany
Malta
Spain Canary Islands (startup and innovation)
Ukraine (case by case basis)

MENA (Middle East & North Africa )

Algeria
Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine region , UAE ( United Arab Emirates ) and GCC
Israel
Libya (case by case basis)
Morocco
Tunisia

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SUPPLY OF CONSULTANCY FOR PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS, UTILITY COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS

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SUPPLY OF CONSULTANCY FOR PROFESSIONAL AND INDUSTRIAL ASSOCIATIONS, PROFESSIONALS, UTILITY COMPANIES, INSTITUTIONS

We want to be for you and your Corporate Customer as a reference point for the Exportation and Internationalization

EXPOSITION, MISSION E INCOMING ECONOMIC OPERATORS

- NEWS ABOUT TRADE FAIRS : fair opportunity of interest to the sector and foreign country;
- IBS IN FAIR IN YOUR PLACE : agreed number of commercial contacts,deeds of buyer, agents, , suppliers, related to an important fair through our senior advisors. ADVANTAGE: cost reduction for the company because of the centralisation;
- MISSION : information about our tasks abroad and events about incoming I Italy by economic entities, trading partners, buyers;
- FUNDS FOR MISSIONS AND FAIRS : information through the competent institutions in order to access to the funds available;
- AT THE REQUEST INCOMING, B2B MEETINGS, TASKS AND FOREIGN WORKSHOPS ORGANISED AN AD-HOC : In one of the places where IBS is most implanted there will be B2B meetings and events for a limited number of holdings.

LEARNING PROCESS FOR A PREPARATION TO THE FOREIGN MARKET AND SPECIALIST ADVICE

Thanks to Joint Inter-Professional Funds, there will be learning processes/consultancy of check-up and business preparation to export.
In addition it is possible to follow specific training programmes for the internationalised and exporting companies about, for example:
- export manager e strategic approach to the market;
- legal themes: international sales contract, international complying, relationship of agency and distribution, means of payment, non-payment and debt collection;
- international tax;
- customs, new Community Customs code, Incoterms 2010 and other issues;
- trade and export financing : documentary credits, bank guarantees, PBO (Bank Payment Obligation), LC and Stand By Letter of Credit, credit insurance, other specific issues;
- business planning.

EXPORT MANAGER IN OUTSOURCING

- Export manager in firm for 6 months – one year as Export Development Manager and Manager for development of contacts with clients, buyers, trading partners;

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

- Scouting of agents, suppliers, trading partners, economic entities abroad specialised in sectors of interest;

SHOWROOM

- For a group of holdings affected we could facilitate the creation of a community showroom and a local sales network, with resident local staff who speaks Italian;

PRODUCTIVE DECENTRALIZATION OF THE LOW-VALUE ADDED PRODUCTS

- Products or segments of production widely traded if made in Italy for their high production costs. We could assist the enterprises for a productive decentralization in EU and non-European countries;
- For example in Albania, Bosnia Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Latvia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Turkey, Tunisia e Hungary;
- In addition to bureaucracy, our network of Italian companies abroad could support you with regard to integrated management, accounting, payroll, services of mentorship for the entrepreneur and his family, other specific request.

SCOUTING OF INVESTORS, ASSISTANCE DURING THE ANALYSIS OF ASSESSING FEASIBILITY AND BUSINESS PLAN

- We are in contact with market investors who participate in projects with a long-term efficiency;
- We could assist the enterprises who want to make a planning idea a business and viability plan to present to the investors.

BUSINESS NETWORKS

- Assistance on the establishment of “business networks” to strengthen in order to enter in the foreign market with the tax benefits available under the Italian legislation;

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Bolivia, the Economical Miracle of Latino America, The case of Bolivia

Bolivia economic miracle

Bolivia, the Economical Miracle of Latino America, The case of Bolivia

Author: Diego Caballero Vélez
November 2014
d.caballerovelez(a)gmail.com

When the last 12th October, the President Morales was reelected for the third time consecutive, Bolivia said “yes” to the miraculous process of changing that the country is experimenting from some years ago.
It is difficult to talk about “economical miracles” in these times, where the major Western powers are suffering the most critical economic crisis in years, where multinationals hesitate in carrying out actions abroad having fear about the bad economic situation of many countries, where the inflation in lots of biggest European powers has reached incredible figures, in these times is difficult to talk about miracles.

While the richest and most powerful countries are the most ones in suffering the economic crisis, we find in Latino America some economic growths deserving of admiration by west. Thanks to this, many companies are fixing his eyes on this continent to import and establish new commercial relationships, thing that was inconceivable few years ago because of the low level of economic growth that these countries had.

An example of these incredible Latino American economic growths is Bolivia, that being one of the poorest countries in Latino America has become, according to IMF, in the country with the major economic growth in South America and the second one in Latino America after Panama. But, how is it possible that a country where in 2005 the extreme poverty exceeded 39 % it has been reduced to 21%? Becoming in one of the Latino American countries that lead lists about less risk of extreme poverty for the future.

We find the answer in a series of economic policies applied by the political cabinet of Morales since his arrival to the presidency.

One of the fundamental keys to economic success of Morales policy has been the combination of a social policy with a market economy policy. Bolivians have made the natural resources their own that have been ceded to the transnationals so the most part of profits used to go abroad.

With this, Bolivia has the total control of natural resources that make the profits his own applying a market policy, and ensuring the participation of foreign private enterprise and cooperatives under a state control, as well as, developing social policies to reduce the social differences. In other words, the economy is nationalized and recuperated to do a more fair social policy, as well as to make hollow to the transnational companies.

Speculations about this country by transnational companies are reducing because Morales policy safeguards them with judicial security and formal taxation norms provoking that Bolivia was a focus of attention for lots of big companies.

In a country where in 2013 the GDP grew to 6.8% and, according to the IMF, between 2014 and 2015 exceed 5% with lower inflation to 6%, where in less than 5 years has become from being a debt country to a creditor country, where 10% of the population is out of extreme poverty and the unemployment rate (3.2%), is the lowest one in Latin America, the Finance Minister of Bolivia, Luis Arce Catacora, sums up: “good economic policy can reach a welfare state, is the way in which things are done to reach the goal of creating a greater social stability”.

Surely, an economic miracle performed by a socialist government that has provoked the admiration of the major new liberal economics.

SOURCES

- Ramonet, I.” Bolivia está cambiando”. Le Monde Diplomatique en español, nº 228, November 2014.
- Interview of Juan Carlos Zambrana Marchetti to Luis Arce Catacora, Finance Minister of Bolivia. http://juancarloszambrana.com/spanish/?page_id=2082

Brazil economy is slowing down

Brazil economy is slowing down

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BRAZIL: STILL APPEALING DESPITE ECONOMIC DOWNTURN

Author: Elisa Mariani
Translated by: Lorenzo Giusepponi
September 2016

During the last decades, thanks to the policies adopted in order to maintain institutional balance and face the excessive increase of inflation rate registered in the 1990s, Brazil has become one of the major emerging countries and a favorite destination for foreign investments.

Its economic growth has also been eased by the country’s entry in Mercosur, South America common market, founded in 1991, whose member states are Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina and Venezuela.
Thanks to this organization, the free movement of goods and services has been possible and the purchasing power of member states in relation to non members has been strengthened.
In the Mercosur founding treaty, signed in Asunción, the member states agreed to respect the environment, human rights, democracy and the fight against poverty, as a demonstration of a significant ethic commitment.

In addition, the country stood out as a highly appealing power for its industrial development, above all in the oil, infrastructures, tourism, renewable energies, convenience goods, chemical and cosmetics sectors.

Brazil main row materials are coffee, cotton, grain, sugar and nickel. The mainstay of Brazilian economy is manufacturing, representing 70% of exportations. The service sector is the most important as it accounts for 38.5% of production, followed by industry at 31.9% and agriculture at 29.6%.

In Brazil, which is a developed country, wealth is not well distributed among the population, with consequent large economic and social inequalities that affect the major part of the population. Current unemployment rate is at 11.3% against 7.4% of July 2012, a fact that should be taken into consideration together with the 4 million people demographic increase registered in the last four years.

At the same time Brazil is important at international level because of its membership to the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa), economically emerging countries which have seen different development processes. The Brazilian economic boom took place from 2001 onwards, when the index of revenue concentration, which on average was between 0.23 and 0.45, reached 0.553, one of the highest ever registered at global level.

Also, in 2001 Brazil middle class saw an increase of 30 million people, which shows the prosperity of that period. However, during the last years Brazil economy has seen a gradual downturn as data about Purchasing Power Parity GDP demonstrate. In fact, in 1978 Brazil GDP was at 12.1%, not much below China’s (12.9%), but in 2013 the difference between the two countries significantly broadened with a 12.6% GDP for Brazil against China 90.1% GDP.

Such economic stall is mainly caused by four factors: the high lending interest rate, which is around 10%, the fluctuation in the price of raw materials, insufficient investments in the Research & Development sector and the policies carried on by Lula da Silva and Dilma Rousseff administrations that aimed to keep stability and that turned out to be generally unsuccessful.

Politicians have thought that the solution to the problem of economic growth was to encourage the demand, ignoring the possibility of betting in investments to help the country. However, there are also positive data given by the press agency Agencia Brasil, which has registered an increase of 20 million people in the highest consumption level, a first step in the growth of domestic demand.

So, in spite of showing a downturn in economic growth, Brazil is still a highly appealing country for its business opportunities.

Source: “Brasile: l’attrattività nonostante il rallentamento economico” (Brazil: still appealing despite economic downturn)

- www.limesonline.com
- www.nuvole.it
- www.brasileira.it