Exporting

Many North Shore companies are involved in exporting goods or services to various parts of the world, or even globally – and Enterprise North Shore has helped many of them along the way. 

The New Zealand government has made a strategic commitment to transform New Zealand into an export-led economy, and provides training, help, incentives and some fully or partly-funded initiatives to encourage New Zealand businesses to export products and intangible commodities such as knowledge and services. Apart from high-level initiatives, such as negotiating trade agreements with other countries, in many instances the government has worked with the private sector to set up or leverage existing networks and initiatives – networks and initiatives which new exporters can tap into.  

How Enterprise North Shore can help
Enterprise North Shore has experience helping businesses navigate the export minefield. If you are planning to export your products or services (irrespective of whether this will be on a large, medium or even very small scale), ready to make the leap, or dabbling in it and finding the going tough, get in touch with us first and we will help you identify which services will be of the most assistance to you, and how to begin to take advantage of them.  In particular, Enterprise North Shore works with the national business mentor agency, Business Mentors NZ, to provide volunteer business mentors that have export experience to assist established businesses.  To apply for a mentor with exporting experience, check out our Business Mentoring page.

In association with Business Mentors NZ, Enterprise North Shore can assist you by providing information and advice and putting you in touch with organisations and individuals who can help and people who are already exporting successfully, and by helping you identify and apply for any funding options for which your organisation may be eligible. We know exporting isn’t easy, but we can make the learning curve less steep. We may well have helped other companies overcome the same challenges you are facing, and we’re happy to share our expertise with you.

More information:

New Zealand Trade and Enterprise offers a range of services and information to businesses to help them do business internationally. There may be a fee for these, although in most cases it is subsidised. They include market intelligence, monitoring markets, helping you prepare to enter a new market, check on local regulations and identify opportunities, and provide in-market assistance and mentoring to guide you along the way or help you extend your market.  

Export Year 2007 aims to increase New Zealand’s long-term export performance. It is a long term objective that seeks to reverse trends which show New Zealand’s export growth slipping well behind other developed countries.  

MarketNewZealand.com is New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s online trade enquiry system, enabling businesses with proven export capability to profile their products and services to an international business audience.   

ProjectLink is the government’s online subscription service that provides you with qualified business opportunities in the engineering, marine and building and construction industries. Leads are sourced directly from the primary markets of Australia, Fiji, French Polynesia and New Caledonia and secondary markets of American Samoa, Samoa and Tonga.   

Export New Zealand is a non-profit, non-government organisation (NGO) which specifically focuses on helping its membership of exporters and exporter service providers grow their business in the international market place.. 

Here are also some sites with information relevant to exports relating specifically to:
Agriculture and forestry
Food
Standards
New Zealand Customs
New Zealand New Thinking brand initiative including presentation resources and toolkits 
Better by Design
Beachheads Programme

You will find more links here and here. These include details such as currency converters, tariffs, export credit guarantees, and much more detailed information than we have provided above.