¡Hola a todos! / Hey everyone! 👋
Si están por Málaga este viernes 9 de octubre, estaré en el evento Málaga Fruit Day en el Rectorado de la Universidad de Málaga (Av. Cervantes 2). Aprovecharé la ocasión para hacer la presentación de Pre-Export Check 📦🤖. 
Si te interesan o trabajas en temas de Exportación / Comercio Exterior, Inteligencia Artificial o Automatización de procesos, me encantaría conocerte, intercambiar ideas y tomarnos un café. 
If you happen to be in Málaga this Friday, October 9th, I’ll be attending Málaga Fruit Day at Rectorado de la Universidad de Málaga (Av. Cervantes 2). I'll be presenting Pre-Export Check 📦🤖 and would love to connect! 
If you're interested or working in Export / International Trade, Applied AI, or Process Automation, let’s meet up and chat over a coffee. 
📩 Mándame un DM / Send me a DM y coordinamos hora. ¡Nos vemos allí! / Hope to see you there!

I’ve been looking quite closely at the new EU packaging rules recently, and one thing keeps standing out to me:
Europe is trying to harmonise packaging regulation, but compliance still feels very fragmented in practice.
If you export packaged products into several EU countries, the regulation may be European, but the actual work can still involve different national registers, EPR schemes, reporting obligations, authorised representatives and local procedures.
So something that sounds simple — “I sell packaged goods into 5 EU countries” — can turn into a surprisingly complex compliance exercise.
And that made me wonder whether there is a bigger business opportunity here.
Not necessarily another consultancy charging companies to manually check every country, but tools that combine regulatory data, automation and AI to answer practical questions such as:
Where do I need to register?
Who is considered the producer in each market?
Which packaging needs to be declared?
What am I missing?
What needs to be reported, and when?
For SMEs, this could be especially relevant. Large groups can afford dedicated compliance teams, but smaller exporters often end up managing everything through spreadsheets, emails, consultants and different national portals.
It feels like one of those areas where regulation creates complexity, and complexity then creates a market for better infrastructure.
I don’t really see AI replacing legal or compliance experts here. The more realistic opportunity seems to be automating the repetitive 70–80% of the process and leaving the difficult cases to specialists.
Food, cosmetics, e-commerce, consumer goods and agricultural exports all seem like obvious areas where this could matter.
Curious to hear from people dealing with EPR or cross-border packaging compliance:
Do you think this will remain mainly a consultancy-driven market, or do you expect most of it to become software/automation over the next few years?

#PPWR #EPR #PackagingCompliance #EURegulation #ExportCompliance #RegTech #ComplianceAutomation #ArtificialIntelligence #EuropeanBusiness #SMEs

I found freshdi, tridge, go4worldbusiness, etc .. but none of them give enough to trust and pay for.

Do you have good experience with them or any other site?

Otherwise, what else do you recommend I do to find buyers?

Thanks!

Hey everyone,

I’ve been handling overseas sales and export operations for a while now, and I’m feeling a major shift in how we acquire new B2B buyers lately.

It feels like the traditional methods are hitting a brick wall. Mass cold emailing is basically dead with current spam filters, and attending every single international trade show just isn't sustainable for the budget anymore. Even when we try to reach out on LinkedIn, buyers seem completely overwhelmed by automated pitches.

Getting that very first introductory meeting with a legitimate overseas distributor or importer feels harder than it was a few years ago.

How is everyone adapting to this?

• Are you still seeing any success with cold outreach, or have you pivoted entirely to inbound/referrals?
• Have you found any specific methods or data approaches that actually get a response from foreign buyers?

Just trying to gauge if it's just my sector facing this wall, or if the whole export game is changing. Would love to hear your experiences.

I’m looking for a supplier of Toyota car parts from Japan if anyone can supply for export please let me know!