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Overseas Business Risk

Information for UK businesses on political, economic and security risks when trading overseas.

From:
Foreign & Commonwealth Office, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Department for International Trade
Published
27 November 2014
Last updated
27 June 2023 — See all updates

The Overseas Business Risk service provides information on various risks in overseas markets. UK government staff in country produce these guides. They provide information on potential business risks including:

  • political and economic issues
  • bribery and corruption
  • human rights
  • terrorism and security
  • intellectual property

We intend these pages to support and guide businesses. You should view them alongside other sources of information. The UK government does not advise on, or undertake due diligence for individual companies.

Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, if you have a business enquiry relating to the situation in Ukraine, contact the export support team. You should also continue to check FCDO travel advice.

For Russia, find out more about sanctions relating to Russia, which includes links to statutory guidance on Russia sanctions and the latest UK Sanctions List. If you have specific questions, contact the export support team.

Assistance for exporters

Other sources providing additional help for exporters include:

For further information on trading overseas see:

Contact us

Contact overseas.businessrisk@fcdo.gov.uk if you have comments or questions about these pages.

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Updates to this page

Published 27 November 2014
Last updated 27 June 2023 + show all updates

  1. Overseas business risk assessment for Armenia added. 26 June 2023.

  2. Updated to include additional links to guidance for businesses

  3. Overseas Business Risk - Uruguay updated.

  4. Guinea guidance added

  5. Overseas Business Risk for Bolivia added

  6. Senegal page added

  7. Burma and Jamaica market profiles added to the Overseas Business Risk service

  8. Updated Cyprus profile added to OBR service; added new link to Nigeria's new profile

  9. New Ireland market profle added to Overseas Business Risk webservice

  10. New link added for Canada's overseas business risk profile

  11. New links added for new Cambodia and Afghanistan OBR reports

  12. NEW Morocco OBR added to Africa collection

  13. New Paraguay OBR page added to the Americas collection

  14. Overseas Business Risk documents for Cuba

  15. NEW Suriname and Guyana OBR reports added to the collection

  16. Overseas Business Risk documents for Costa Rica and Nicaragua added.

  17. Additon of FCO Economic factsheets to further reading for market information.

  18. Two new country profiles added - Cayman Islands and Papua New Guinea

  19. Added Norway

  20. Added Overseas Business Risks, Zambia document

  21. First published.

  22. Gabon, Peru

  23. intellectual property abroad

  24. China update

  25. Namibia and Argentina

  26. change to ordering

  27. bahrain and cote d'ivoire

  28. Added Luxembourg

  29. Thailand and Poland Updates

  30. July update for Russia and Ukraine

  31. Updated Mauritius page 15 July

  32. Mauritius Update - July 14 2014

  33. Overseas Business Risk - Hong Kong

  34. Updated links

  35. Link to FCO Political and Economic Updates

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