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Foreign missions in South Africa
Foreign trade representatives stationed
in South Africa
While we strongly recommend that you make
use of our country’s trade representatives, you
should not ignore the trade representatives of other countries
located in South Africa. These individuals know their
respective countries intimately and now that they are
living in South Africa, they also understand the South
Africa way of life and way of doing business. They are
in an excellent position to help you do business in their
country – the only problem is that they are in South
Africa to promote exports from their country to here and
not from here to there. This makes them generally unwilling
to assist South African exporters!
So what should you do? Well, we suggest
that you approach them and explain to them that you want
to explore the possibility of doing business with their
country (yes, exports, but also possibly imports). Ask
them if you can have access to their trade information,
newsletter and trade library. The best is to ask for specific
information such as the address of the trade association
in their country for the industry you are active in. As
always be polite and friendly. Some foreign trade offices
may be willing to help you. Be careful about misleading
the trade representative, however. If they believe that
you are lying, they may quickly become unhelpful and even
hostile. Lying may even result in a visa being denied
to you for travel! At the very least, you should
begin by seeing whether they a website to learn more about
what services they offer (or even if they have a trade
representative at all).
Click
here to access the list of foreign missions in South
Africa
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