Monday, March 15, 2010

Certificate of Origin

Well...most of us are pretty aware about trade among countries and their respectives agreements. Since there are several countries, therefore lots of differents sort of agreements, countries have during the last decades formed economic blocs so they could deal with one another in a more efficient and organized manner. As a result of these trade unions, very impressive blocs have come out, UE, ITUC-AP, NAFTA and MERCOSUR, to name a few.
Among lots of benefits for both countries in trade to each other, there are those articles claiming reduction or even nullification of exportation fees. In order to take advantage of this benefit, one must prove the product's nationality. How come? I tell you: by the Certificate of Origin(COO), which is a document that proves a product's nationality, therefore it allows exportators to benefit from reduction or nullification of exportation fees according to what is established in the agreement between the exportator country and the country they are in trade with.
All of this solely to tell you all that I have just joined ACSO, and guess what people do in the department I am headed towards? Yeap, if your answer was "they dispatch COO's" you just hit the nail in the head!
I can barely believe it. When they first called me for an interview I had no idea there was a Foreign Trade department over there. Well, there I was, sat on a couch, biting my time, sipping some tea when I spotted a magazine with ACSO's president on the cover. Then I started to take an overview at ACSO's president interview on the magazine. That was when I was (for the first time) told about COO. Few minutes later I was introduced to ACSO's vice-president, a very polite guy who took me for a walk inside ACSO's departments in order to make me get familiarized to the place, before too long I was told (for the second time) about COO when he showed me the COO's department, introduced me an extremely gentle (and cute) girl and told me there was the place where I would be working from that moment on and that cute girl would be my co-worker.

Monday, March 8, 2010

International Women's Day

March, 8th. International women's day. I would like to congratulate every women from all over the world, since you have been reaching your aims during the past decades. Moreover I see women's struggle as something that is going to bring the world onto a certain balance, since women are kind of more sensitive than men, whose reason has always been played a main role in.
Yeap! Brazilian women, go celebrate! The worst your life might be, it is far better than those women being circumcised in some parts of Africa, or those living in the middle East, being submitted
to their husbands' wills. Anyway, water will always be worthless until you find yourself sorrounded by sand in a desert.
I praise all of my female classmates who have been studying real hard in order to achieve independence. Life is far beyond what you can see and identify as reality.
Shout out to Rose Marie Muraro, damn! It is quite overwhelmingly awckward how we feel before Rose Marie Muraro's thoughts. Therefore it is totally worthwhile to check out her background in brazilian women's struggle. Really inspiring.
Shout out to Lady Diana who put aside her dull royal tea meetings to show what the real meaning of royal may imply.
Shout out to every women who is playing a role to improve a kin's quality of life, whoever it is, a woman, a man, an elder or a child. That is all....God bless you all!