Compiling our calendar each week, we at Global Atlanta have a pretty good idea how the city’s international affairs organizations, language institutes and binational chambers have been affected by the sudden and precipitous drop in event revenue these last few weeks. Weathering the pandemic ourselves, facing canceled ads to postponed forums, we got to thinking that […]
Experts: ‘Japan Jolt’ in the South Imperiled by U.S. Trade Retreat
In the short run, trade uncertainty has helped some Southern states win new projects from Japan. Unable to escape the Trump administration’s steel and aluminum tariffs, many firms have deepened their already strong exposure to the region. Joint ventures giving steel makers a foothold in the U.S. have taken off, and auto parts plants have […]
Georgia Ports’ Strategy to Stay Open Amid Covid-19: ‘Isolate and Operate’
The Georgia Ports Authority remains up and running, this week announcing 17 perfect growth in container traffic for February even as it braces for a potentially dramatic decline in March due to the Covid-19 outbreak sweeping the globe. Still, in recent days leaders have struck a more optimistic note, pointing to healthier bookings out of […]
Georgia’s ‘State of Trade’ in Flux as Outbreak Clouds Outlook
Last Thursday, as a panel of trade experts took the stage, it was still unclear how Georgia‘s economy would be just a few days later. For the most part, the Georgia Department of Economic Development and World Trade Center Atlanta’s State of Trade breakfast was looking back at a year where Georgia posted a 1.5 […]
Kennesaw Building Services Firm Doubles European Growth From Ireland Office
Rubicon Technical Services LLC, a Kennesaw firm which helps verify that building systems are functioning properly, in 2019 more than doubled sales out of the office it launched two years ago in Dublin, Ireland, to expand its global reach. Rubicon Technical Services Europe completed projects in Ireland, Sweden, South Africa and China, contributing to a […]
Metro Export Challenge Settles Into Fifth Year, Names 12 Awardees
Now in its fifth year, the Atlanta Metro Export Challenge has hit its stride, with 12 new awardees selected last Wednesday from an array of sectors to receive $5,000 reimbursable grants in support of their international sales efforts this year. Facilitated by the Metro Atlanta Chamber, the challenge has matured into even more of widespread […]
Augusta Factory Ramps Up to Relieve Global Mask Shortage as China Fights Coronavirus
A Georgia factory is adding shifts and moving to a seven-day workweek to ramp up production of medical masks as the coronavirus outbreak restricts supply out of China. But Montreal-based Medicom Group’s United Medical Enterprises factory in Augusta, Ga., is not sending products across the Pacific. Instead, the factory’s 80-plus employees are helping offset the effects of […]
Macon Symposium on Trade and Investment: Complexities Growing, but Balance Still Favors Global Engagement
The picture may be murkier these days, but company and industry representatives at a Macon trade and investment symposium still believe that in 2020, Georgia has more to gain than to lose in engaging with the global economy. During the Jan. 16 forum at Wesleyan College organized by the law offices of Christopher N. Smith and […]
China’s Infrastructure Spree on Trial at Latin America Conference in Atlanta
China was not one of the 23 countries represented at an Atlanta conference bringing together American chambers of commerce, or AmChams, from around the Western Hemisphere this week. Still, it loomed large during a luncheon at the Metro Atlanta Chamber, as speakers representing the U.S. government drew a contrast with their prime geostrategic competitor in the […]
Georgia Exports Hit Record Even as China Trade Drops Sharply
Georgia announced another year of record exports in 2019 on modest growth, even as trade with China, its top partner, dropped sharply amid a tariff war that cast uncertainty over the year. Other countries and high-tech sectors picked up the slack, however, allowing Georgia to post 1.5 percent export growth to $41.2 billion, even as the U.S. as […]
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