Developing your export import business using Internet - Part


Since most of the businesses throughout the world have access
to the Internet, many astute entrepreneurs and trading companies
are using the Internet as one of the primary means for
developing their import and export businesses.

Already a big slice of global trades are taking place through
the Internet. According to Forrester Research, a major
marketing research company, worldwide online exports will
escalate to US $1.4 trillion in 2004, and cross-border
e-marketplace trade will exceed US $400 billion in this year
alone.

However, cross-border trading will create a division between
the companies that actively import and export using the
Internet and those that don't. Companies that are slow in
adopting the Internet will loose competitive edge to the more
proactive Internet-savvy counter parts.

If you are already involved in international trade or planning
to either import or export products, Internet could be your
primary source of gathering data, researching prospective
market, finding clients and, may be even, for doing your entire
business online.

First, let