Guides
Step-by-step, sourced guides for exporters looking for buyers abroad. Each guide starts with the answer; facts come with their sources.
- How to find buyers for export: methods compared and where to startEleven ways to find export buyers compared by cost, speed and fit, with first steps for a small manufacturer and how to get from contact to first order.Last updated
- How to find importers and distributors for your productPick the market from trade data, decide which partner type you need, build a candidate list, write to the decision maker, and vet each firm before you sign.Last updated
- Websites to find international buyers: what each type does and does not doFive kinds of website help exporters look for buyers abroad. We sort them by the job they do, say where each one stops, and give a sequence for using them.Last updated
- How to use Trade Map to pick export marketsA step-by-step guide to ITC's Trade Map: find your product by HS code, rank importing countries, read the indicators, and know what the tool cannot tell you.Last updated
- How to write an export email to a buyer: first contact, follow-up and templatesThe first email to an overseas buyer: the right person, subject line, one ask, follow-up and five templates.Last updated
- What AI can and cannot do for exportersWhere general AI assistants help an exporter, where their own documentation says they can be wrong, and how to check a buyer company, a contact and an email by hand.Last updated