The Belgian American Chamber of the South is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s Belgium Channel . Sign up here for monthly newsletters on Belgian trade and investment connections to Georgia. Green Worldwide Shipping is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s Trade Channel . Sign up here for monthly global trade updates. Hall Booth Smith P.C . is the presenting sponsor of Global Atlanta’s Europe Channel . Subscribe here for monthly Europe newsletters. As Jason Dunn delved deeper into a proposed project that would benefit rural Georgia ’s wood sector, an unforeseen problem emerged. Tariffs were set to significantly raise the costs of perhaps the biggest line item in the client’s new facility — machinery imported from Germany . “I said, ‘There’s nothing I can do; you voted for the whole package,’” Mr. Dunn, executive director of the Fitzgerald-Ben Hill County Industrial Authority , told the prospect. He advised the company to “’pay the piper,’ which I hope they do, because we really need this project,” Mr. Dunn said during the 7th Annual Global Trade and Investment Symposium Feb. 19, organized by Global Atlanta and the law offices of Christopher N. Smith in Macon . Mr
