Europe

On January 1, 2026, the Vietnamese Personal Data Protection Law came into effect. Law 91/2025/QH15 was approved by the National Assembly in June 2025, and Decree 356/2025/ND-CP arrived on the last day of the year to explain how it works in practice. If you've been following the news, you've likely seen […]

The EVFTA has done what it was supposed to do. Five years after its launch, cumulative trade between Vietnam and the EU has surpassed $298 billion, with two-way trade in 2025 approaching $74 billion, and Vietnamese exports to the bloc reaching $56.2 billion. Between 2019 and 2024, trade with the

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

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.

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