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Legal forum on cross-border e-commerce between Switzerland, Germany and the UK

Thursday, 13th February 2014

According to this, on March 6 2014, IMRG, Bond Dickinson, HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte and Bühlmann Attorneys at Law Ltd will host a legal forum in Central London to look in detail at what the coming into force of the European Consumer Rights Directive and its implementation means for cross-border e-commerce between the Switzerland, the UK and Germany.

"Experts from Bond Dickinson, HÄRTING Rechtsanwälte and Bühlmann Attorneys at Law Ltd will explain how the new rules are being implemented in the UK and Germany. Switzerland, although not a member of the European Union, also has plans to to strengthen its consumer rights laws."

"The new rules will potentially:

Impact your business model through changes to areas such as returns and refunds policies – e.g. cooling-off period extended to 14 days;

Require substantial changes to your website’s T&Cs and order pages (both for the UK and other countries);

Impact your cross border strategy and require changes to your customer helpline numbers – for example, what is meant by a basic rate number?"

"This forum will help attendees to:

Clarify changes required to order pages, T&C’s and returns and refunds policies;

Identify differences between the rules in the UK, Germany and Switzerland;

Identify changes required to website order pages and customer helplines;

Understand when other countries jurisdictions will apply and what this means for cross-border online sales to Germany and Switzerland."

Brazil to become a great e-commerce market

Thursday, 13th February 2014

According to this, e-commerce revenue in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico are expected to grow by 135% collectively, from USD 20 billion to USD 47 billion by 2018.

"In Brazil, more consumers from lower income groups have begun to be comfortable shopping online. There were over 40 million online shoppers in Brazil in 2013, with the number topping 50 million by the end of 2013."

"Cross-border online shopping was popular in Brazil, which stimulates cross-border e-commerce business and brings more opportunities for the B2B e-commerce market. And the World Cup has really provided a boost to the Brazilian e-commerce segment, with a 27% increase in 2014 in relation to 2013 figures."

"The globalisation of markets, growing interpenetration of economies, rapid technological change, volatility of demand, wider variety of products available, faster delivery, quicker product development and low cost manufacturing indicate a new type of competitive environment."