Canada Trade: E-Commerce
Are you an investor who seeks potential business by trading with Canada? If so, then you need to learn basic information about the nature of Canada’s trade and industry. These sets of information are available on the Canadian government official website. For an overview, the site provides customs-based statistics on international trade in goods. Among its objectives are to help you find new export markets, to determine competition for your products, to identify domestic opportunities for import replacement, and to analyze the Canadian domestic market for industries in the manufacturing sector.
While export/import trade has a growing potential in the industry, Canada also acknowledges the significance of e-Commerce. By definition, e-Commerce refers to the buying and selling of goods or services over electronic system such as the Internet. Like web marketing, e-Commerce connotes the same idea of managing a business using computer networks.
The Electronic Commerce Branch of Industry Canada’s goal is to build on its established foundation to support and facilitate continued growth of e-business in the Canadian economy. As one of the world leaders in terms of IT infrastructure development, Canada has an Internet market that is very much attractive for users, thus establishing e-commerce is an easy option. Most Canadian users visit the popular sites on the Internet such as Google, Yahoo!, eBay, Amazon, and MSN where they find placing ads interesting.
A statistics gathered by eMarcet.com states that almost 40% of online buyers visit more than one online store before finalizing a purchase, and 37% use a search engine to find a retailer. For 60% of online buyers consumer reviews were the most trust information source. And only 31% trust newspapers or magazines most. More than two-thirds of Canadian Internet users like to sell online, but only 53% are willingly purchasing online.
E-commerce has been booming in Canada as part of the country’s leading trade industry, and the following are some of the companies that supply users with e-commerce and e-business solutions:
- The Plastics Exchange – a real-time marketplace for anonymously buying and selling prime and wide spec commodity grade plastic resins in truckloads and railcars with fully integrated credit and logistics( Chicago , Illinois)
- TecMarGroup - a company that develops, implements and manages complete marketing plans and deliverables for manufacturing companies. With significant experience in the engineering, plastics and telecommunications sectors, it works directly with, and support each clients’ business development and sales activities. Specific industry experiences relate to hot runners, mouldmaking, moulding, auxilliary equipment, automation and injection machines (Georgetown, Ontario)
- IQMS - the company’s latest product EnterpriseIQ, rooted in plastic, is the innovative choice with unsurpassed capabilities for injection, blow molding, thermoforming, extrusion and compounding. From manufacturing to financial needs, across one plant or across the globe. (Paso Robles , California)
- Cyframe - fully integrated ERP software for the plastic industry. Total systems including SPC and eCommerce utilities that Track & Measure operations to: Improve Productivity, Reduce Overhead, Improve Response Time & Customer Service with specific versions for Injection, Blow Molding, Extrusion, and Film & Converting (Montreal, Quebec )
- Polysort LLC - a web site portal for the plastics industry offering online advertising along with web site development and search engine optimization services (Akron , Ohio)
