Challenges in 2020 for the internationalization of Spanish companies

It looks like a complicated year

Interview with Antonio Bonet, president of the Spanish Exporters and Investors Club, a multi-sector association whose members invoice the equivalent of 20% of the Spanish GDP.

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Welcome to a new live from foreign company, the economic digital of foreign business SPAIN.

 

At this start of the year, we want to know what are the 2020 challenges for the internationalization of Spanish companies.

 

For this today we have with us  Antonio Bonet, president of the Spanish Exporters and Investors Club, a multi-sector association whose members invoice the equivalent of 20% of the Spanish GDP.

With him we have addressed the positive and negative aspects that are influencing world trade, the role that the EU must play in the new international scenario, what the Spanish export sector expects from the new Government and what are the pending tasks of our exporting companies.

 

Among the highlights commented by Antonio we can keep the following:

 

"2020 is shaping up to be a complicated year, a year of uncertainties: Brexit"The conflict with Iran that could affect the price of oil, tariff increases..."

 

"The UE It also has to adapt to the new environment: it has to negotiate and sign more trade liberalization agreements and lead and seek alliances with other countries that support the multilateral system."

 

"The Spanish companies "It needs to invest more in emerging economies, and the government needs to support these efforts."

 

"Spanish companies cannot base their competitiveness solely on costs; we have to invest in R&D, in branding, and provide better service."