“Listen, if you had the chance to live your life again, was there anything you would change?”

“Indeed! Prior to a major investment I would ask real professionals to inform me about all possible risks ahead!”

You feel uncomfortable reading these lines? Do these lines ring a bell? Are you hesitating?

So you are planing to enlarge your sphere of business activity, to invest, to dare an investment abroad.

Well, you certainly informed yourself about national and european foreign trade law. The legal terms of the country you plan to involve in are well know to you, isn’t it?

The documents concerning existing trade agreements with this country are already in your posession to benefit from the appropriate tax consessions.

By the way, are there any trade bans on the goods you want to trade with? Are there any natinal, international or supranatinal lists your goods are mentioned on? Are these goods probably dual-use goods which you can not easily export in every country you like to?

What about the political situation in the country? Is it stable or are there unrests, is there a supressed opposition movement or even armed resistance forces?

Did you take care of all these questions?