1. What is Exports? / Exporting?
Ans: The
term export means shipping the goods and services out of the port of a
country. Normally, Export means to
send goods or services across national frontiers for the purpose of selling and
realizing foreign exchange. Export is a function of international trade whereby
goods produced in one country are shipped to another country for future sale or
trade. In International Trade, "exports" refers to selling goods and
services produced in the home country to other markets.
Exporting refers to the sale of goods or services produced
by a company based in one country to customers that reside in different
country.
2. What is Imports? / Importing?
Ans: Imports are the products shipped
into our country from other places. The definition of import
is commodities, i.e. goods and services brought into one
country from another country for the purposes of trade. Import is also a verb meaning the
action of bringing in goods and services from another country.In other
senses entirely, import can mean the following:importance or significancean inferred, underlying meaning, rather than one that is
actually stated to indicate or signify something.
Importing is the purchase of goods or
services by a company based in one country from sellers that reside in another.
Imports are
the goods and services that are bought by residents of a country, but made
outside of the country. It doesn't matter what the goods or services are, or
how they are sent. They can be shipped, sent by email, or even hand-carried in
personal luggage on a plane. If they are produced in a foreign country and sold
to domestic residents, they are imports.
For example,
tourism products and services are still imports, even though they are sold to
tourists outside of their country. In a way, when you travel outside the
country, you are importing those souvenirs.