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# International Business and Technology Blog

## Bill Patterson

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## [US business executives less efficient than Europeans in getting sales during business trips](https://info.ibt.onl/international-business-and-technology-blog/bid/401422/us-business-executives-less-efficient-than-europeans-in-getting-sales-during-business-trips)

 Posted by [Bill Patterson](https://info.ibt.onl/international-business-and-technology-blog/author/bill-patterson) on Fri, Dec 19, 2014

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So why are US business executives so much less efficient than Europeans when it comes to getting sales during business trips?

This was the question being considered by Robin Chater, The Secretary-General of the Federation of International Employers (FedEE) in a recent breakfast briefing. He was quoting Eurostat, a respected European statistical agency which showed how in the last year: “the EU exported 288 bn euros of goods to the USA, but only imported 196 bn euros of goods from the USA. The imbalance was narrower, however, when we look at services. EU exports of services to the USA were worth 161 bn euros, yet imports from the USA amounted to 148 bn euros a year…

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## [The decline of English as the web becomes more local](https://info.ibt.onl/international-business-and-technology-blog/bid/400300/the-falling-dominance-of-english-on-the-web-as-the-web-is-becoming-more-local)

 Posted by [Bill Patterson](https://info.ibt.onl/international-business-and-technology-blog/author/bill-patterson) on Thu, Nov 20, 2014

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Living in the USA, browsing with Google.com, your search results are invariably in English. If you search for a product then Google tells you where to find it locally. The internet is mostly in English, right?

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