The rules for investing in foreign countries are also very different. In most foreign countries you need a have an affluent business person or politician as a partner to get anything accomplished. Paying people off is a very common way of getting things done. What would put you in jail in the US is an acceptable way of doing business in many foreign countries.

In many foreign countries like Italy and China, for example, the tax rates are so horrendous that most every company has two sets of books. This poses a vexing problem when you are trying to take a foreign company public in the US markets.

These barriers do not seem to be deterring US investment in foreign countries. Obviously the rewards are so great its’ worth the risk.

Bookmark to: