Start Your Own Import/Export Business: Your Step-By-Step Guide to Success

Startup Series

by The Staff of Entrepreneur Media, Inc

Importing and exporting are trillion-dollar industries — but that doesn’t mean they’re just for big business. In fact, small businesses make up about 96 percent of this field. Get your share of an ever-expanding economy with the essential advice in this top-selling guide.

As a successful import/export agent, you can net a healthy six-figure income by matching buyers and sellers from around the globe, right from your own home. This book is loaded with valuable insights and practical advice for tapping into highly lucrative global markets. You’ll learn every aspect of the startup process,

• Choosing the most profitable goods to buy and sell
• Setting up and maintaining a trade route
• Using the internet to simplify your transactions
• How the government can help you find products and customers
• Essential trade law information to keep your business in compliance
• How to choose a customs broker
• The latest government policies
• Proven methods for finding contacts in the Unites States and abroad

Tricks of the trade from successful importers/exporters and hundreds of valuable resources help you become a player in the lucrative world of international exchange.

Genres: Business

277 pages, Paperback

Published February 14, 2017

Reviews

[Yasan Parto · Rating 3 out of 5]

It’s a relatively comprehensive book! I went into it having already been somewhat introduced to the world of import/export and having known some of the nuts and bolts; so I found some of the material redundant. To get the most out of this book, I would suggest readers to start reading when you don’t have the faintest idea of such industry, just when you’re weighing the pros vs cons thinking if you should enter it or not. Then, you will get the full experience.

Some of the material presented in the book is totally redundant. For example, the book covers the bare necessities a trader needs to start the business such as a computer, printer, telephone and internet among other things and goes into them in detail and even tries to estimate how much each costs. Although it’s a compassionate effort, it’s totally unnecessary and bores the average reader who full well knows what working from home requires and has purchased all those items before.

I was hoping to get more first-hand insight from current industry professionals on overcoming common obstacles and entering the market as well as learning the jargon and technical terms involved in importing/exporting. Although the book fell a little short on the former and did merely more than scratching the surface, it exceeded my expectations on the latter and brilliantly explained every term you might come across in exceptional detail which I found quite helpful.

Overall, the book is a relatively short and easy read. I definitely recommend it to anyone who’s on the verge of entering the global and profitable industry of import/export. And to those who have just entered the industry but feel like they could use an extra hand, I say, you’ve got a friend in this book.

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Importing and exporting are trillion-dollar industries — but that doesn't mean they're just for big business. In fact, small businesses make up about 96 percent of this field. Get your share of an ever-expanding economy with the essential advice in this top-selling guide.
As a successful import/export agent, you can net a healthy six-figure income by matching buyers and sellers from around the globe, right from your own home. This book is loaded with valuable insights and practical advice for tapping into highly lucrative global markets. You'll learn every aspect of the startup process, including:

Choosing the most profitable goods to buy and sell
Setting up and maintaining a trade route
Using the internet to simplify your transactions
How the government can help you find products and customers
Essential trade law information to keep your business in compliance
How to choose a customs broker
The latest government...

[Fredrick Danysh · Rating 3 out of 5]

A detailed layman's guide to starting and running an import.export business. General guidelines are given along with many tables of information and for development of such a business. Due to changing government regulations and taxes, legal advice might be appropriate for the perspective importer/exporter.

[Nick · Rating 1 out of 5]

This dreadful, schlocky book spends as much time discussing the merits of email vs fax, or how to create a budget, as the critical content like shipping terminology, logistics, and understanding tariffs and customs. The overall tone is stupidly jokey. Not recommended.

[Richard Muhumuza]

Very informative.