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My mental model for this is as follows:

1. If you are a company based in and operating as a legal entity in Country X, the laws of Country X apply to your business as a whole, including services you offer in Country Y and Country Z.

2. If you are a company based in and operating as a legal entity in Country X but are offering services in Country Y, the laws of Country Y apply only to the services you offer in that Country Y.

All of this can then get mushy and complicated based on international governing bodies, multinational trade agreements and nation-state soft power but absent those constraints, I believe this holds.




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