The Portable Encyclopedias for Doing Business with a specific country is an unmatched resource for capitalizing on opportunities in that country. Whether you are importing, exporting or investing, you will find a wealth of detailed information that will keep you ahead of the competition.

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• International buyers, sellers, investors, consultants and service providers
• International attorneys
• Public, corporate and university libraries
• Participants in seminars on trade, law and contracts
• Students of international trade

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DOING BUSINESS IN ARGENTINA
2^nd edition
ISBN 0-885073-75-5

Argentina has become one of the world's economic success stories. With a return to political and financial stability and a new openness to foreign participation, the country is showing that it is serious about becoming a major player in the international economy. Long known for the commodity products of its famous pampas, the country is fast becoming a power to be reckoned with as it directs the talents of its cosmopolitan workforce toward more sophisticated products.

DOING BUSINESS IN AUSTRALIA
ISBN 0-885073-03-8

Australia is a prosperous and growing nation. It has a friendly, well-educated population, a stable economy, and extensive raw materials throughout its huge territory. As it expands its traditonal agricultural and mineral based economy, Australia is becoming a growth center for high-value-added speciality industry and trade throughout the Pacific. Australia is a major world source of raw and intermediate materials as well as increasingly sophisticated producer of industrial and consumer specialty goods and services.

Canada is a prosperous, growing nation with a well-educated population, a stable economy, and extensive raw materials. It is rapidly turning away from its traditional agricultural and mineral base to become a center for high value-added specialty industries and international trade throughout Southeast Asia and the Pacific.

This vast, ancient nation is redefining itself after decades of hostile isolation. Massive reforms are transforming a stagnant, state-controlled system into the fastest growing economy in the world where profit-making opportunities abound.

Hong Kong, the world's foremost bastion of unfettered capitalism, is a place where this afternoon's arrivals can be doing business by nightfall. Even though the British colony has reverted to Chinese jurisdiction in 1997, China has too much as stake to rock the boat too heavily. While some residents are fleeing abroad, newcomers are clamoring to get in on the free-wheeling economy.

This small, mountainous island country with few natural resources and a history of isolation has become one of the most economically powerful nations on Earth. Its per capita income, foreign trade, and trade surplus are among the highest in the world. Japan is clearly the economic linchpin of the Pacific Rim.

In the last 40 years South Korea has grown from a war-torn, poverty-stricken agricultural also-ran into a world-class industrial power. It has achieved this remarkable feat through hard work and the government's encouragement of an export economy. Korea now stands at a crossroads as it retools to produce higher value-added products.

Within the last ten years the world's largest Spanish-speaking nation has evolved from a debt-ridden, Third World provider of raw materials to a rapidly developing, diversified manufacturing power with which to be reckoned. For the first time in decades, the country is opening up to the outside world in an effort to secure foreign investment, update its technology, and modernize its economy.

Since the social and political revolution in the mid-1980s the economy of the Philippines has changed direction, making great strides in opening its markets and linking them with the global economy. The Philippines is beginning to welcome outsiders, making deals that will help develop its emerging economy and provide improved opportunities for its people.

The tiny multi-ethnic city-state of Singapore, which did not exist as a separate entity with an independent economy until 1965, has become the economic wonder of Southeast Asia. Growing from a regional shipping hub to a low-cost manufacturing center, and then to a world-class business and financial service center, its goal is to become the Switzerland of the Far East.

A former colony and land of subsistence farmers, Taiwan has become an economic dynamo in recent decades, performing one of Asia's most impressive economic miracles. Now it is setting the stage for the next act in the drama with its push to develop an economy that stresses sophisticated high technology.

Although challenged in recent years, the USA remains the world's largest and most diverse economy and the place where many of the world's businesspeople aspire to operate. The USA is one of the most technologically advanced, most affluent societies in the world, and its technical and business service sectors rank second to none. Always one of the most open of the world's economies, the USA has reaffirmed its commitment to free trade through membership in NAFTA and the new World Trade Organization.

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