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The Australian Made Australian Grown (AMAG) campaign has launched a new website to provide consumers with more information about Australian made and grown products. AMAG chief executive Ian Harrison says the website leverages the positive associations consumers have with Australian made and grown products and allows businesses to provide further details. “Licensees can now add [...]
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Minister for Trade Simon Crean has launched a new website designed to assist small to medium exporters with finding the most appropriate finance options for their business needs. The Export Finance Navigator (www.exportfinance.gov.au) allows SMEs to find independent information on financing options for their exporting activities or international investments through an easy-to-use interface that connects [...]
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Peter Mace prompts exporters on their readiness to take on the digital world.
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EBay payment company PayPal now supports 24 currencies on their system after adding Malaysian ringgit, Thai baht, Philippine peso, Taiwan new dollar and Brazilian real to its suite. The availability of these new currencies will allow Australian exporters to sell their goods online to more customers in the Asia-Pacific region in their own money. “The [...]
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China has blocked tens of thousands of websites ahead of the 60th anniversary of the People’s Republic, according to Reporters Without Borders. Paranoid Chinese authorities have targeted virtual private networks and other methods that residents and foreign reporters use to bypass official internet controls. The group estimates that tens of thousands of web addresses had [...]
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Tenth in our True Cost of Exporting series is international marketing. Exporters face greater costs marketing internationally than they do domestically. Here’s a guide on minimising costs while maximising benefits. While the direct costs of international marketing such as advertising, trade shows and representation may not be significantly greater than domestic marketing, it is the [...]
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Conflict is challenging at the best of times but what happens when disputes cross international borders? Settling an international dispute starts with prevention but there are also non-adversarial cures for disagreements
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The reports of the death of manufacturing are greatly exaggerated. In fact, manufacturing can be found alive and well in a duplex in Leichhardt, New South Wales, headquarters of menswear brand aussieBum. At first the business couldn’t afford to go offshore because they didn’t have the minimum orders required, but as the business grew, founder [...]
...read moreSearch engine Google is likely to have its growth in China curtailed after authorities accused it of allowing access to pornography. But the pornography claim is more than likely a pretext for dampening internet freedom, according to Professor Feng Chongyi from University of Technology Sydney. “Curbing pornography is not the Government’s main concern: its main [...]
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The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) hopes to roll out their Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) project after their next meeting in Korea later this year. Speaking today at the Sydney event, ICANN’s senior director for IDN Tina Dam said the project would mean internet users could have any web address or email [...]
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