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.

What stops a food export
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.
FDA in the United States, GACC in China, export health certificate. They are filed before you sell, not once an order is already waiting.
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.
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.
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.
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?
Start free, no card. Every paid plan includes the tools.
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
- Meat and edible meat offalChapter 02
- Fish and crustaceans, molluscs and other aquatic invertebratesChapter 03
- Dairy produce; birds' eggs; natural honey; edible products of animal origin, not elsewhere specified or includedChapter 04
- Products of the milling industry; malt, starches, inulin, wheat glutenChapter 11
- Animal, vegetable or microbial fats and oils and their cleavage products; prepared edible fats; animal or vegetable waxesChapter 15
- Meat, fish, crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, or insects; preparations thereofChapter 16
- Sugars and sugar confectioneryChapter 17
- Cocoa and cocoa preparationsChapter 18
- Preparations of cereals, flour, starch or milk; pastrycooks' productsChapter 19
- Preparations of vegetables, fruit, nuts or other parts of plantsChapter 20
- Miscellaneous edible preparationsChapter 21
- Beverages, spirits and vinegarChapter 22
- Tobacco and manufactured tobacco substitutes; products, whether or not containing nicotine, intended for inhalation without combustion; other nicotine containing products intended for the intake of nicotine into the human bodyChapter 24
Main importing markets
USD · 2025| Country | Imports (USD) |
|---|---|
| United States | 165,302,411,454 |
| Germany | 97,218,143,415 |
| China | 92,653,669,338 |
| United Kingdom | 70,054,149,443 |
| France | 67,135,658,720 |
| Netherlands | 65,738,644,266 |
| Italy | 52,479,246,649 |
| Japan | 50,735,168,246 |
| Spain | 41,802,481,312 |
| Canada | 36,270,906,831 |
| Belgium | 34,201,922,834 |
| South Korea | 27,691,317,452 |
| Poland | 27,033,838,529 |
| Mexico | 26,587,752,847 |
| India | 24,108,458,399 |
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
Trade fairs in this sector
- Alimentaria BarcelonaBarcelona
- Alimentec | Anuga Select ColombiaBogotá
- Expo ANTAD & Alimentaria MéxicoGuadalajara
- AnugaCologne
- BIOFACH – World’s Leading Trade Fair for Organic FoodNúremberg
- Foodex JapanTokio
- Fruit AttractionMadrid
- GulfoodDubái
- ProWein DüsseldorfDüsseldorf
- Salón GourmetsMadrid
- Seafood Expo Global / Seafood Processing GlobalBarcelona
- SIAL Paris (Salon International de l'Alimentation)París / Villepinte
- Sirha Lyon – Salon Food Service & HospitalitéLyon
- Summer Fancy Food ShowNueva York
- Wine Paris & Vinexpo ParisParís