OFFSHORE MANUFACTURING
Manufacturing overseas can be a profitable venture or it can be an unmitigated disaster as we have recently seen in a certain large Asian country where manufacturing “shortcuts” have caused poisonings and deaths of infants and children and where blatant intellectual property theft has been a booming industry for decades. Certainly, potential landmines lurk in any kind of overseas relationship, but manufacturing abroad is the one that needs the most special attention—from the selection of the country in which to set up shop to which partners you appoint to do the actual work.
EXIM PARTNERS
INTERNATIONAL TRADE MISSIONS & CONSULTANTS
“Going beyond the
feel-good meetings, the hand shakes, and the best intentions to actually
getting business done”
become
governmental cooperation; level of local or national institutionalized graft; regional raw material quality and availability; transportation to your country or to your targeted foreign distribution market(s); and visa, security, and personal safety/security issues for your in-country supervisory and management personnel and their families.