It Is Important To Be Prepared And Focus On Opportunıtıes

We need to shape the future in a more positive frame by focusing on generating more income, welfare, and employment for our countries.

We experience major transformations in international dynamics. Turkey, the EU, and the US are trying to find answers to the recent challenges with innovative economic policies, reshaping the international trade ground. Before the global pandemic shook that ground, activities in areas such as sustainability and digitalization aim to change the rules of competition as a whole. Commercial and political sanctions in critical areas such as steel and 5G continue to occupy our agenda. However, as the business world, we need to focus on the opportunities and maintain positive headings such as the $100 billion US-Turkey trade goal and modernization of Customs Unions with the EU as indispensable topics of agenda.

This is the way to develop the synergy and added value that we all need. 2021 will harbor a wide spectrum of risks and opportunities caused by the impacts of the US Presidential elections, the fight against the pandemic, and vaccine studies. I believe that we need to shape the future in a more positive frame and create more income, welfare, and employment for our countries. In a period when international trade agreements may increase, companies must be prepared for all risks and act to focus on opportunities. It must be noted that activities in joint regulations such as the European Green Deal, Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), and Trade in Services Agreement (TiSA) will accelerate along with mutual trade agreements and add a new dimension to trade relations.

Chairperson at TAİK Texas State Committee and CEO at Borusan Holding Group Erkan Muharrem Kafadar