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They like your product abroad. Getting it on the shelf is the hard part

Oil, wine, preserves, cheese, snacks: one of the sectors that exports the most and competes the hardest. Exporta.ai tells you which countries have real demand for what you make, what labelling and certificates customs will ask for, and who the importer moving your category is.

Health and labelling requirements, country by countryChannel importers and distributors, with name and emailThe Anuga, SIAL, Fancy Food and Gulfood calendar

What stops a food export

The label, which changes at every border

What works for the EU does not work for the United States or Japan: allergens, nutrition panel, language, health claims. A shipment held at customs over a label costs more than the order.

The registration nobody mentioned

FDA in the United States, GACC in China, export health certificate. They are filed before you sell, not once an order is already waiting.

A channel you do not find on Google

You do not find the importer who moves your category through their website: you find them at the fair, in the exhibitor list and in the purchasing org chart.

How Exporta.ai handles it

The verdict before the order

The market report opens by saying whether your product can enter that country, on what conditions and with what source. If it is blocked it stops there and offers alternatives, instead of letting you find out with the container already at port.

The channel buyer, not the switchboard

We find importers and distributors in your category by country, and inside each company the purchasing person: name, role and business email. Not a contact form.

The fair that is actually yours

Anuga, SIAL, Fancy Food, Gulfood, Alimentaria. Which fair belongs to your product, when it runs, and the hall exhibitors extracted so you arrive with the list done instead of collecting cards at random.

A typical case · Olive mill, 18 staff, Jaén

They sold bulk oil to a single Italian buyer. The report gave them three markets with demand for bottled extra virgin and the maximum ex-works price for each; they dropped two over duties and worked the third. They reached Anuga with 40 importers already identified.

An illustrative example of typical use; it does not describe a specific customer.

3
markets analysed
40
importers identified
1
fair, with the list done

What this sector uses most

Market analysisMarket analysisFind customersFind customersTrade showsTrade show managementTranslationDocument translation
Does it work for bulk as well as packaged product?

For both, and they are not analysed the same way. Bulk is decided by price and by the importing country’s volume; packaged, by channel and labelling. The report tells them apart because it starts from your tariff code, which already says which of the two it is.

Does it tell me exactly which certificate I need?

It tells you which ones are required for your product in that country and where that requirement comes from. What it does not do is file them: that is your consultant or freight forwarder, and arriving with the list done saves them half the work.

Shall we start with your market?

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Trade data for this sector

Which tariff chapters it covers, which countries buy the most and which trade fairs matter, with official figures.

Tariff chapters in this sector

Main importing markets

USD · 2025
CountryImports (USD)
United States165,302,411,454
Germany97,218,143,415
China92,653,669,338
United Kingdom70,054,149,443
France67,135,658,720
Netherlands65,738,644,266
Italy52,479,246,649
Japan50,735,168,246
Spain41,802,481,312
Canada36,270,906,831
Belgium34,201,922,834
South Korea27,691,317,452
Poland27,033,838,529
Mexico26,587,752,847
India24,108,458,399

Imports declared by each country from the world. Countries report with a delay: the period is the latest with consolidated data.

Source: UN ComtradeData for 2025Verified on 9 November 2026

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