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    How to add your offer or your products research?

    We apologize but we can't manage offers from ''informal'' industry.
    As we receive many import-export and business offers, we must confirm the reality of the offers we are receiving and which are transmitted to potential business partners:

    1. For legal and obvious security reasons we don't insert any offer without complete information about the sender identity, except for Premium Members.

      Email address: for business security, we may refuse an offer sent with a free email such Hotmail etc... because there is no guarantee about sender's identity or we may ask to confirm sending by fax. However we recommend to communicate a free email address to receive answers.

      Privacy: we don't use personal information for commercial purpose. We don't transfer your personal information to anybody except your business partners; inform us if any restriction. Our privacy policy.

    2. We cannot insert any trade offer without a complete information about the product or service (international standards). Before to send an offer or a request you can read: How to draw up an export offer which specifies the minimum requested information about the product you offer.

      More your offer is precise more you will find customers.
      No limitations about the information you can send; we can set up unbounded pages for good products and services.

    3. All offers are checked by export-forum.com Master in Law administrator. Allow from 1-2 weeks for insertion, 12 hours for Premium Members.

      Contact us by phone If you need our phone contact feel free to ask for it but we ask to know first your precise purpose.


    Success fees

    Insert offers is free and unlimited.
    Buyers: there are no fees for buyers.
    Sellers: to send a tender to sell to Africa Asia Trade implies explicitly the sender of the proposal agrees to pay a commission to SCAC Network for any sale done to a customer from our web sites if SCAC business services assistance is provided.
    Conditions and success fees for Web trade services


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    Notwithstanding other disposition, any dispute about this Web site content or conditions for services and fees are Victoria - Sechelles Court jurisdiction. If you don't agree, please, don't go further through this Web sites Network.

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    How to draw up an offer?

    For your commercial offer efficiency on our Web Network, for visitors and customers guarantee we cannot insert an offer without a complete product information.
    You can send complete files and photos; if your product requires special pages, we'll do it for free. If you have a web site, please send it's address.
    Dont forget an offer by Internet will have to be more professional and precise that it would be done by other ways, more traditional.
    The professional visitors must immediately know they read an offer issued from another professional.

    The minimum rules and information are the following ones
    The name of the product:
    very precisely define the product by its name of use in the international trade which can be different from the local name

    • - Ex: the bissap in West Africa is in fact Hibiscus Sabdariffa.
    • - For the products such seafood and plants the best way is to send the scientific name in Latin who is used in all countries.
    • - For industrial products give all the precise characteristics of them.
    • - Ex: we offer trucks, boats or computers does not have any sense.
    The exact origin
    Sometimes a product in not coming from the country exporting it
    For some products there are several qualiteies depending the areas in the same country

    • - Ex: for cashew nut or tea some areas cashews are more required than others in a same country
    Qualiteies and /or specifications
    They are essential and imperative.t
    For some products there are several qualiteies depending the areas in the same country

    • - Ex: chemical composition of an vegetable oil, shea butter ...
    • - Ex2: ingredients of any processed food product
    • - Ex 3: Exact quality of agro-products

    An offer offer of cocoa has no sense without all usual specifications in use in the cocoa trade market such ''well fermented'' ...; idem for cashew nut with ''turn-over''... or grade for Arabic gum...

    1. Precise the availability of analysis and source of it
    2. International standards certification...
      • -Examples
      • -Organic certified by ....
      • -CE or FDA approval
    The export season if any
    and if no availabilities all year long
    Exact conditioning / packing
    the exact packing EX: PP bag, carton with liner inside...
    net weight
    number of packing units per carton or pallet if any etc...
    number of packing units per 20' and 40' container
    Exact quantity available of the product if any limitation (Ex for agro-products)
    periodicity of the offer if seasonal product
    FOB time delivery
    minimum order; if it s a container of 20 or 40 mention the weight
    FOB time delivery
    minimum order; if it s a container of 20 or 40 mention the weight
    Exact unit FOB price (mention the port name); if it is EXW mention it
    mprecise conditions of payment and the possibility or not of CIF or CFR deliveries
    Some buyers will ask for a Performance Bond; mention it only if you offer this possibility
    alidity of the offer if you send prices
    Any other useful information the buyer has to know
    -Ex: If available precise the conditions to get samples

    The same information is requested for industrial products, machine plants etc...

    Other useful documents
    • - FPA (Irrevocable payment order)
    • - NCND (Non-Disclosure Non-Circumvention Agreement)
      • - LC Draft Irrevocable and confirmed credit letter at sight

    The seller identity

    It is important to send immediately an exact and precise corporate information including corporate name, postal address + + fax It is appreciated, if you have an officiaà l'export registration number, a trade registration number to mention it.
    Its better to mention immediately if you are a producer, agent, house of commerce... If you want to buy mention precisely in which quality (final customer, commercial firm, official broker, independent agent, individual...).
    Generally all information that contributes to establish your credibility will support your business. You can be well known in your country and not abroad.


    SCAC Network success fees

    Insert offers is free and unlimited.
    Buyers: there are no fees for buyers.
    Sellers: to send a sale offer to Export-forum implies explicitly the sender of this sale proposal agrees to pay a commission to SCAC Network for any sale done to a customer from our web sites if SCAC Network business services assistance is provided.
    Conditions and success fees for Web trade services

    Web pages and advertising with us

    With an excellent rank in English and in French with major search engines we offer to exporters targeted Web advertising: you pay only when you receive customers requests.
    Advertising information


    Requested information to import

    English is the usual international trade language but some good customers cannot communicate easily in this idom.

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    How to draw up a quotation request?

    For a request to buy the main rules to succeed could be:

    1. A precise request:
      • - quality and/or specifications
      • - Exact quantity
      • - Delivery time
      • - Port of delivery if CFR request...
      • - Any useful information the seller has to know once, before to quote Ex: if you ask for a Performance Bond

      Special procedure for commodities such rice sugar and flour or cement... see

    2. Request of machine plant:

      No contact and no reply without a minimum prior information see

    3. Target price:

      It is useful to mention your realistic target price..
      This information allows the supplier to know if he is in position to make an offer and also to know you are a professional.
      For some products a target price is now requested or we and the suppliers will not reply: tomato paste, photocopy paper, tyres, small orders of wheat flour or rice ...

    4. It's highly recommended to confirm a request by fax on official corporate letterhead. Many suppliers require it.

    5. Restrictions and conditions for some commodities and important orders:

      Most of suppliers will ask for any quotation request for cereals, rice and wheat over 1000 MT, sugar, cocoa beans, cotton seeds, cotton fibers, cement, fertilizers, customized machine plants...and any request over 100.000 USD will require:

      • A confirmation of the request by fax and /or
      • 4.1 A Recent and original signed LOI and/or BCL sent by fax or postal mail
      • - Letter of Intention of purchase L.O.I.
      • - Bank Comfort Letter B.C.L.

      For products such tomato paste, A4 photocopy paper, pastas, meat, frozen fish... most of suppliers will not reply without a target price.

    6. Other useful documents:
      • - FPA (Irrevocable payment order)
      • - NCND (Non-Disclosure Non-Circumvention Agreement)
      • - LC Draft Irrevocable and confirmed credit letter at sight
    7. Samples:

      Many suppliers refuse to send samples if they don't know the customer If samples are sent you will have to pay prior the sending DHL or other company fees For many products the sample has to be paid also.

    The buyer identity

    It is important to send immediately an exact and precise corporate information including corporate name, postal address + + fax
    It is appreciated, if you have an officiaà l'export registration number, a trade registration number to mention it. Its better to mention immediately if you are a producer, agent, house of commerce...
    If you want to buy mention precisely in which quality (final customer, commercial firm, official broker, independent agent, individual...
    Generally all information that contributes to establish your credibility will support your business. You can be well known in your country and not abroad.


    SCAC Network success fees

    Insert offers is free and unlimited.
    Buyers: there are no fees for buyers.
    Sellers: to send a sale offer to Export-forum implies explicitly the sender of this sale proposal agrees to pay a commission to SCAC Network for any sale done to a customer from our web sites if SCAC Network business services assistance is provided.
    Conditions and success fees for Web trade services


    Premium Members, Annual subscription, commercial searching & business services

    Some contacts can be provided only to Premium Members. If you need more references of offers, more information with priority and personalized additional services, contact SCAC Network head office. Our references are our business card. Subscription information



    English is the usual international trade language but some good suppliers cannot communicate easily in this idom.

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    How to visit the site?

    All trade offers are listed in the continent of the company's origin (Africa, Asia-Pacific, Americas & Europe) All the offers of each continent are distributed in specialized sections. There is a link to the site Map on the top of each page of the site. To seek offers by keywords in Export-Forum site or the whole Web you will find on each page bottom a link Search