Je Europese distributeur is geen EU-vertegenwoordiger. Dit is het verschil

Het gesprek verloopt bijna altijd hetzelfde. We vragen of er een EU-vertegenwoordiger is aangesteld. Het antwoord is: ja hoor, we werken al zeven jaar met een distributeur in Nederland. Of: ons advocatenkantoor in Frankfurt regelt onze Europese zaken. Of, het vaakst: onze moedermaatschappij zit in Ierland, dus dat is geregeld. Alle drie klinken redelijk. Geen

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Wat een EU-vertegenwoordiger kost in 2026, en waarom de prijzen zo ver uiteenlopen

Je hebt vastgesteld dat artikel 27 op jou van toepassing is. Je zoekt een aanbieder. En dan blijkt dezelfde dienst €19 per maand te kosten bij de ene partij en €12.000 per jaar bij de andere. Dat is een factor zeshonderd. In geen enkele andere professionele dienst accepteren we zo’n spreiding zonder vragen te stellen,

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The Vietnamese PDPL and GDPR are not the same law. This is where exporters get stuck.

Op 1 januari 2026 trad de Vietnamese Personal Data Protection Law in werking. Wet 91/2025/QH15 werd in juni 2025 goedgekeurd door de Nationale Vergadering, en Decreet 356/2025/ND-CP kwam op de laatste dag van het jaar om uit te leggen hoe het in de praktijk werkt. Als je de berichtgeving hebt gevolgd, heb je waarschijnlijk telkens

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The EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement is here. This really changes things.

On February 1, 2026, the EU-Singapore Digital Trade Agreement entered into force. It is the first standalone bilateral digital trade agreement the European Union has ever concluded with a country, which in itself says something about how the EU views Singapore. It builds on the EU-Singapore Free Trade Agreement, which has been in effect since 2019. The trade relationship under it is

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Your site is fast in Singapore and slow in Frankfurt. This is costing you money.

Open your website from your desk in Singapore. Feels fine. Now open your analytics and look at your European sessions. Higher bounce rate, fewer pages per session, and a conversion rate that's somewhere between half and a third of what you see at home. Most businesses read that as a market problem. Europeans don't know our brand yet.

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Nearshoring brought you American customers. Europe asks for different things.

Mexico has had a few very good years. Exports reached around $645 billion in 2025. The country ranks eleventh globally as an attractive destination for foreign direct investment. Nearshoring has drawn high-tech manufacturing, electronics, and energy-related sectors into the country at a pace that would have been optimistic in 2019.

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Don't go to “Europe.” Go to one country. That's how you choose it.

Every expansion discussion we have starts the same way. Someone says, “We want to go to Europe,” everyone nods, and six months later, there's a translated website, one trade show booth, a distributor in a country nobody consciously chose, and no revenue. Europe is one regulatory market. It is not a commercial market. The rules governing your product are

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