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How can we complain that we don’t have enough people with the import/export skills to help our economy, while bringing in qualified immigrants and then not opening up available international trade opportunities to them?
My interest in international business started to develop while I was a student at Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. I enjoyed the undergraduate global business and finance courses I took, which heavily focused on globalization and the impact it was having on the world economy.
International trade practitioners tend to be the drivers of growth, rather than a factor in supporting growth. So how do you know if you have the right competencies to work for a globally competitive company?
Sometimes the status quo, even if it’s worked in the past, may lead to some of the pitfalls of exporting and importing instead of continued international trade success.
Business pressure will often blind an executive to other ways of international networking. The following out-of-the-box methods can bring surprising results.
Looking back, my interest in international trade began when I first crossed the U.S./Canada border as a six year old in the back seat of our bright red Chevy. This was the beginning of a lifelong passion for international travel that led to my successful career in international law.
Just how long will it take for international trade to be seen by business as not only an activity of exchanging products and services across borders, but a true occupation and profession that takes a specialized set of knowledge, skills and abilities to perform?
While we have placed international trade in a position of national importance, making every effort to expand and grow our trading relationships globally, our domestic trade remains limited, blocked by interprovincial barriers that cost our industries billions of dollars through their inefficiencies.
Over the course of our International Trade Competency Standards (ICS) Project, we’ve had many international trade experts talk about the skills that global trade professionals need to master, and why. Here are seven of the skills that came up most often.
Canada is a trading nation. Roughly 60% of our GDP is generated by international trade. It’s therefore important to get an accurate picture of international trade in this country to highlight trade stats which matter in a meaningful way. So when we’re talking about trade stats which matter, which of the international trade statistics available really matter and why?
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