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Question 1: Market Prospects

What are the major industries of your exporting country? What demand is there for their products in the Greater Toronto Area or Southern Ontario? For these reasons, what products will you decide to import?

Would your best business approach be selling these products directly to consumers? Or would it be selling them to other businesses as supplies, tools, or components?

Question 2: Trade Links & Barriers
What trade treaties has your exporting country joined? What about those trade rules will help you import their products? What about them will cause problems?
Describe your exporting country's infrastructure; what routes would the goods take from their origin to your warehouses?

Question 3: The Political Environment
How is the exporting country governed? What are the most powerful political movements and parties? What political problems and conflicts in the country? How might those conflicts benefit or harm your importing business?
What environmental issues in the exporting country may cause you problems?

Question 4: Reliability
What problems of corruption exist in your exporting country? What dangers could such corruption cause for your business?
If your exporting country is not especially corrupt, describe what other difficulties local government or business groups may still cause your business?