The Magazine behind NZ’s Export Drive
Our marine export sector is no place for pessimism. And encouraging signs coming from the US, the world’s biggest consumer of marine industry products, should be cause for more confidence here. Exporter gauges the...
Business success with China is to be celebrated at the New Zealand China Trade Association’s HSBC China Business Awards 2013 on May 30th. Entries are open to businesses that export to China, import from...
Leading supply chain and logistics expert Dr Hermione Parsons will be keynote speaker for the Customs Brokers and Freight Forwarders Federation (CBAFF) conference, to be held in Tauranga in May. Dr Parsons is the...
Much is written on the competitive pressure from other nations in attracting Asian students to study in their respective countries, whether at high school or tertiary level. However, this is not easily scalable and...
Opinions are frequently offered about the difficulty of obtaining IP rights in China; how they are likely to be ignored and are next to impossible to enforce. I shouldn’t be surprised, therefore, when clients...
Jan Bierman reviews the recent Going Social in Brazil exercise – a clever social media marketing exercise for the benefit of New Zealand’s international education sector. Growing the value of international education is one...
The recent headlines regarding losses reported and the amount of corporate tax paid by Starbucks and other multinationals illustrate not only an increasing global concern regarding the ability/practice for multinationals to shift profits for...
Direct trading between the Kiwi dollar and Chinese RMB is now a reality. So what’s the advice for our exporters? NZTE regional director Karlene Davis is advising Kiwi exporters to see beyond top-line economic...
EXP: If an exporter knows his supplier and doesn’t see a need to create a contract, or risk offending him, are contracts worth it? NG: Yes, contracts are worth it. We have heard the...
Shipping cartels to become illegalThe international shipping industry in New Zealand has long enjoyed an exemption from the Commerce Act. Shipping companies routinely publish advertisements saying that representatives from a number of lines met...
