Tag Archives: International Business

Overview of Mexico Mexico is a politically stable country with prudent management of its economy. It has a population of 130 million with over 68% of the population between the ages of 15-64 (source cia.gov) Mexico’s main export commodities are manufactured goods, oil and oil products, silver, fruits, vegetables, coffee, cotton Mexico’s main import commodities […]

The Chinese government has launched environmental inspections which have halted factory production across making key raw materials industries such as plastics, chemicals & steel. This has caused a knock on effect on other industries. The sweeping inspections were ordered in October 2016 in response to the to the smog crisis in north China, where the […]

  Employment Termination strategies are being updated by companies. The employer/ employee relationship is very complex. And no doubt this complexity dramatically increases when the employer seeks to terminate the employee’s employment with the company. But do you know that there are now several strategies which employers can use to end the employment. The buzz […]

    China Employee Death update. Every year there are in excess of 600,000 “work related” deaths in China but do you know that your company can still be liable for an employee death up to 48 hours after completion of work! In the awful event that an employee suffers a work related death, the […]

The EU and South America have stepped up their talks. EU trade agreements are now in demand with other trading blocks This is because of Donald Trump’s decision to remove the US from the trans-Pacific trade deal has stimulated leaders in the EU & the founding members of the South American trading block called Mercosur […]

Today you are paying very low prices for the cargo which you ship. However what is happening to cause these low prices may be coming to an end. So what is the cause of the low prices? The basic point is that you are paying very low prices to ship your products  because there are […]

                      India’s decision not to renew an investment treaty with the Netherlands has sounded warning bells to the European Union that this will be the start of a process of India allowing many bilateral Investment protection deals with other European countries to expire. India has […]

                Changes to doing business with Iran On 16 January 2016 a report was sent to the United Nations Security Council which stated that Iran had taken a series of measures called for by the historic nuclear agreement between Iran, the United Nations Security Council permanent members and […]

  Canada and the EU achieved the final stages of this agreement on 29 February 2016 when they announced the end of the legal review stage of the text. The legally reviewed agreement will now be submitted to EU Council and the European Parliament for approval. The objective of CETA (Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement) […]

(This is the second part of my article on China’s Economic Woes)                   China’s current five year plan will end in 2015 and its new five year plan will commence in 2016. The current plan has been primarily focused on the following areas: Containing the massive debt […]