Online event
Export your services with the Australia and New Zealand FTAs
Wednesday 01 November at 10:00AM
Learn about the benefits of the Australia and New Zealand Free Trade Agreements that came into force on May 31st, 2023. This session is specifically for service businesses.
What you’ll learn
- explore the detail of the Free Trade Agreements
- how they can be used to benefit services companies
- top tips from Export Champions
Description
There are plenty of opportunities in Australia and New Zealand that your service business can tap into. The best way of doing that is to start preparing the ground work for a successful export journey to these two markets, worth over £12 Billion in trade combined.
This workshop aims to provide practical advice to service providers on how to best utilise the provisions and the opportunities in key sectors both Agreements have to offer for a wider and positive impact on the British economy. It will also provide an opportunity to hear first-hand from Export Champions who have successfully traded with these markets about their experience.
Speakers
Val Jonas
CEO, Risk Decisions
Val has over 35 years of expertise in risk management and analysis. She delivers Risk Vision masterclass sessions and Connecting Risk workshops for managers and practitioners.
Risk Decisions started exporting in 1995, growing extensively from 2004. It now exports to nine overseas markets, making up 70% of business turnover, with Australia and Canada as top export destinations. Exporting has opened a much larger market for the business and provides greater business resilience from market and sector fluctuations. Val's advice to potential future exporters is simply: “Go for it!”
Vera Grantham
UK Export Academy Adviser, Department for Business and Trade
Vera has many years of international trade experience working across industry sectors.
Prior to joining the Export Academy team in 2022 she worked as an International Trade Adviser in the North West. And before that Vera was International Trade and Documentation manager at North & Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce.