Top Export Ideas That Work

Smallbusinesses in the import/export arena first need to identify theproducts or services they want to carry. Here are the top 10import/export ideas that can help you to grow your business:

Food products: Today, the opportunities to export food and agricultural products are great. In fact, there has probably never been a better time for small and medium-sized companies to begin exporting. It is easy to find companies that manufacture food products locally for domestic consumption. Many of these companies never export. If the products are of good quality, you can link up with them and export a part of their produce.

Clothing: Nowadays cloth exporting is a very profitable business, where demand never dries up. Specialized clothing, particularly for women, makes for a great import-export business. If you have access to unique dyeing techniques, printing styles and embroidery methods, you will succeed in export-import arena as well.

Jewelry: As with clothing, there is always a constant demand for jewelry around the globe. Customized jewelry, ethnic jewelry, handcrafted jewelry make for excellent import/export items.

Greeting cards:In the Internet age, with electronic greetings of all kinds now available, greeting cards are still popular , especially wedding invitations. If you put up samples of what you can provide on your website, you can expect orders from discerning customers within your country, as well as from other countries.

Personalized tableware:Notwithstanding the inherent risk in this business due to the delicate nature of the product, this is a money-making import/export idea. If you have a well-developed business website, you can take orders for personalized tableware from various countries. Just make sure make sure that tableware articles are properly packed prior to shipping.

Handbags: If you love handbags, a purse business could be right for you .Out of nowhere thousands of different small businesses have emerged and are doing well. Handbags are easy to source and easy to ship.

Dry fruits: All countries don’t have the requisite weather conditions to grow fruits that can be dried, and there is great demand for these in all parts of the globe. So, dry fruits make for an excellent import/export product.

Processed items: Products such as shea butter, olive oil, jojoba extracts, aloe vera gel, hibiscus extracts are not available everywhere, but have a high demand in the cosmetics/personal care industry. That’s another good import/export business idea.

Chinese buy most luxury goods in the world

The purchasing power of Chinese consumers rises with each passing day.In the recent years, China became the world’s largest consumer of luxury goods, overtakingJapan and the US.

Wine, art, gems, jewelry and watches are among the luxury items rapidly growing in popularity as investment items for China’s wealthy.

Compared to Europe and the US, Chinese consumers of luxury goods are younger and the majority are aged 25-40.

Analysts predict that by 2015, around one third of the world’s luxury goods will be bought by Chinese consumers.

Peru as an Emerging World Exporter of Fruits and Vegetables

Over the past two decades,Peru has emerged as a significant fruit and vegetable exporter.  

    

  The United States is one of its most important markets. This rise in exports was driven by advantages in climate, low production costs, and preferential trading arrangements with major countries.

   Asparagus was the first, and remains the most prominent, example of Peru’s success as a major exporter of fruit and vegetable products.

   20 years ago Peruvian asparagus would not be found in the shops whilst now Peru is the largest exporter of fresh asparagus and is second only to China in its exports of processed asparagus.

Going Global is the key to success

    International trade is very beneficial for the global economy as it increases the growth of world economy. 

    Global trading gives chance to the buyers and countries to discover new goods and products that are not available in their countries. Global market is the vast market in which every product or good can be found.

       Buying and selling in overseas markets offers potential for businesses to develop and expand opportunities.

 

Thailand - Asia’s Wellness Capital

Known for its naturalbeauty, Thailand also is gaining recognition for products that tone,soothe, and adorn the face and body, such as skin care, cosmetics,and spa products.

 The country rapidly is becoming the hub of healthcare and beauty in Asia, Asia’s “Wellness Capital,” and a one -stop shop for purchasing healthcare and beauty products and services.

In addition, a number of Thai cosmetic firms manufacture their own brands and are gaining in popularity overseas.

Factories producing cosmetics and spa products for the international market are equipped with modern laboratories. Their manufacturing processes and research are monitored closely by scientists and meet all international standards.

Last year, Thailand shipped a total of $1.18 billion of cosmetics and spa products, up nearly 20% year-on-year. Five destinations accounted for 53% of total export: Japan, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Philippines and Australia.

The nation’s aesthetic and spa market is growing with Thais production their own manufacturers and becoming more popular offshore.   

Panama Canal improvement will boost world shipping trade

Nearly 100 years after a model of the Panama Canal was unveiled at the Panama-Pacific World Fair in San Francisco, the 48 mile, man made waterway connecting the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans stands both as a hub and gateway for world transport and trade.

The Caribbean region is the most important for world trade. The increase in Cargo volumes that is expected after the expansion of the Panama Canal, represents a real possibility for capturing a greater part of the market.

The dynamics of world trade are expected to change significantly once a project to increase the width and depth of the Panama Canal is completed in 2015.

The expansion project has been carried out to meet a sustained increase in international trade and a rise in demand for movements through the canal.

The number of shipping containers aboard freighters using the canal has risen from 200,000 in 1995 to 6.6 million in 2011.

International trade is expected to continue to grow substantially during the next two decades, at rates higher than the growth rate of the main world economies.  

The Netherlands - One of the Largest World Exporters Of Agricultural Products

The Netherlands is the world's second largest exporter of agricultural products after theUSA  

Together with the USA and France, the Netherlands is one of the world's three leading producers of vegetables and fruit. It supplies a quarter of the vegetables that are exported from Europe. The agri-business is one of the driving forces behind the Dutch economy. At the same time, it poses challenges to the environment. In recent decades, farms became larger in scale and production became more intensive. As a result, fertilizers and manure made more impact on the countryside. Farming had to become more sustainable, the Dutch government said. Today, the Dutch agricultural sector is strongly focused on sustainability: it is a source of healthy, safe food that is produced with respect for the landscape and the environment.

High quality cuisine on menu for exporters to China

As the Chinese population grows wealthier and their diets evolve, we will see the growth of an insatiable demand for high quality, safe and a greater variety of foods. 

China’s demand for food imports from select foreign destinations is expected to grow at a rate of ten per cent annually until at least the end of the decade. 

Export - Your Way to Success

Farmer’s son developed fruit crisps in his university dorm begins exporting them around theworld and is set to net £1million.

Charlie Fermor has now sold more than one million packets of his healthy snack made from apples and pears.

The 25-year-old has taken orders for 100,000 packs from Australia, 40,000 from China and 10,000 from the UAE, with the business set to net him over a million pounds in 2013.
Charlie began experimenting with making the fruit crisps - the only ones of their kind in the UK - while studying agricultural business management at university in Reading.
He turned his student accommodation into a makeshift lab and bought a dehydrator device to dry out slices of the fruit as he experimented with apples in between lectures.
After finishing his degree at the University of Reading , Charlie used his newfound knowledge to develop his brand of crisps at Perry Court Farm, near Ashford, Kent.
After a trade show six months ago more and more retailers from countries across the globe are now getting in touch with Perry Court Farm about the tasty crisps.

He visited famous American fruit-growing states such as Oregon and California to learn about processing techniques.

Returning to the UK Charlie used some savings to buy his own equipment and set up production in an on-site cold store on the farm using the apples from the orchards.

The global chain Whole Foods Market snapped up the snacks for their five London shops as well as many other smaller retailers across the country.

The tasty crisps, which sell for 50 pence a pack, have proved popular with school tuck shops, as one packet counts as one of your five-a-day.

Flower Export for Valentine's Day

As Valentine's Day looms, Colombian flower growers are preparing for their busiest time of year.

Farmers in the South American country are gathering, picking and packing rose and other flower consignments to export to the US and other global markets, including the UK.

Colombia exports 450 million flowers for Valentine's Day, and flower farmers say that day alone accounts for 12 percent of their annual income.

What does Italy Export to the World?

Italy is the world’s eighth largest industrial economy and the fourth largest in Europe, with a potential market of almost 60 million consumers.

The country is internationally recognized for its fashion, automotive, marine, design, and mechanics industries. Italian style, innovation, creativity and love for tradition are all key success factors of the ‘Made-in-Italy’ brand.

The country is a leading producer of industrial and artisan products, which are exported worldwide. This is especially the case for pasta, wine, olive oil, fruit and vegetables (which has earned Italy the nickname of the ‘European orchard’), and for various other processed foods such as preserves and chocolates.

History of Container Shipping

Modern container shipping will celebrate its 60th anniversary in 2016. Almost from the first voyage, use of this method of transport for goods grew steadily and in just five decades, container ships would carry about 60% of the value of goods shipped via sea.

In 1955, Malcom P. McLean, a trucking entrepreneur from North Carolina, USA, bought a steamship company with the idea of transporting entire truck trailers with their cargo still inside. He realized it would be much simpler and quicker to have one container that could be lifted from a vehicle directly on to a ship without first having to unload its contents.

His ideas were based on the theory that efficiency could be vastly improved through a system of “intermodalism”, in which the same container, with the same cargo, can be transported with minimum interruption via different transport modes during its journey. Containers could be moved seamlessly between ships, trucks and trains. This would simplify the whole logistical process and, eventually, implementing this idea led to a revolution in cargo transportation and international trade over the next 50 years.

Interesting Facts about International Trade

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• International trade is the exchange of capital, goods, and services across international borders or territories.
• International trade has increased so much people talk of the ‘globalization’ of the world economy. This means that goods are sold around the world.
• The balance of world trade is tipped in favour of the world’s richest countries and companies.
• Just 200 huge multinational companies control much of world trade.
• Just five countries – the USA, Germany, Japan, France and the UK – control almost half world trade.
• The 30 richest countries control 82 percent of world trade.
• Oil tankers carry crude and refined petroleum. Supertankers can hold around 550 million kilograms of oil.
• The 49 poorest countries control just 2 percent of world trade.
• Some countries rely mainly on just one export. Ninety-five percent of Nigeria’s earnings come from oil; 75 percent of Botswana’s come from diamonds.
• Some countries such as the USA .want ‘free trade’ – that is, no restrictions on trade; other less powerful nations want tariffs (taxes on foreign goods) and quotas (agreed quantities) to protect their home industries.

Interesting Facts about Fruit Export

• The world’s most popular fruit is the tomato. More than 200 billion pounds (about 90 billion kg) of tomatoes are produced yearly, primarily by China and the U.S.
• The country that exports the most fruit to the U.S. is Mexico. Mexico also happens to be the world’s largest producer of avocados, lemons and limes.
• The world’s leading producer of kiwi fruit is not New Zealand, as many people think. It’s actually Italy, which produces  about 450 million kg of kiwi fruits a year.

Indian's Silk Export

With sericulture activities spread across 52,360 villages, the Indian silk industry is one of the largest generators of employment and foreign exchange for the country. India enjoys a unique global position in terms of producing all the commercially useful varieties of silk.

The readymade garments of silk formed the largest segment, generating around 58 per cent of the export earnings from silk, while natural silk yarn, fabrics and made-ups accounted for around 38 per cent of the silk export earnings.

The US and the UAE are the major export destinations for Indian silk goods. 

The UK, France, Italy and Germany are the other major export destinations. The segments that are exported in the silk sector include natural silk yarns, fabrics, made-ups, readymade garments, silk carpets and silk waste.