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The Pros and Cons: International and Domestic Sourcing

Unleashed

This strategy involves a country from a high-cost country area — typically US, UK, Canada, Australia, and West European nations — purchasing materials from resource-rich low-cost countries; think China, India, Indonesia, Bolivia, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, and East European nations. Local government policies and exchange rates.

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Embracing the South American Ecommerce Marketplace

CH Robinson Transportfolio

Improvements are slowly occurring, thanks to increased government funding (but corruption hampers many efforts). Only two countries in South America are landlocked, Paraguay and Bolivia. Roads remain the primary means of transportation, but 60% are unpaved, hampering the speed of delivery by truck to inland locations.

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Trends 2019: Let the Prediction Season Begin

Enterra Insights

governments, private enterprises, non-profits, academic institutions, and citizens). While populism had been ascendant in numerous countries before this — from Poland and Hungary to Bolivia and the Philippines — these elections brought such political philosophies to two of the world’s largest economies.” ”[3].