GUIDE TO SHEA BUTTER EXPORT

Shea butter is a substance extracted from fruits of the tree through the process of crushing and
boiling. The name 'Shea Butter' is short for 'Shea nut Butter'. The tree is also called "The
Karite tree", which means 'the tree of life'. It is called this name because of the numerous
healing characteristics it possesses. The tree grows mostly in Africa. In the dry savannah belt
of West Africa, the tree is found growing wild.

USES OF SHEA BUTTER

Shea butter is used for a lot of activities ranging from edible activities to ritual activities. In
West Africa, especially Ghana, Nigeria and Togo, it is used as cooking oil. In some parts of
Africa, it is rubbed on the body believing it can stop bullets. It is used for a lot of things in
Africa and the world generally, but the commonest of its uses is against skin infections and
irritations. It treats skin disorders like eczema, burns, rashes, stretch marks, acne, wrinkles,
skin discolorations, itching and other skin problems. It also provides natural protection from
the sun's UV rays. It is also an excellent agent for softening skin. It can also be used to
maintain hair moisturization especially in dry hair.

Shea butter is an excellent natural product for maintaining both body and hair vitality. But one
of the greatest problems of shea butter is the availability of the pure one. Most of the shea
butter marketed worldwide are mixed with one product or the other and once this is done, its
effectiveness and quality drops. This is the reason why some people use shea butter over a
long period of time and notice little or no change.
Shea butter contains an ingredient called Cinnamic Acid. This cinnamic acid is an acid bound to
other ingredients and once this shea butter loses its purity, the natural bounded acid decreases
which results in the overall ineffectiveness of the shea butter. Irrespective of the quality of the
shea butter, it does one thing; it helps in skin moisturization. Once shea butter has been
adulterated, it is very unlikely that it would give the results of pure shea butter.

QUALITY
Nigeria produces one of the highest quality shea butter in Africa and the world in general. In
Nigeria, pure shea butter is available at the cost of almost nothing. It is used mostly by women
for hair and skin treatment. A few use it for cooking. In the Northern part of the country, it is
called Kadanya and in the southern part is commonly known as Ori. The purest shea butter is
sold locally by market women. Even though it can be found in shops at a higher price, the
quality is lower than that of the ones locally sold.

CHARACTERISTICS
Now what are the characteristics of good shea butter? Shea butter is soft, creamy and beige in
color. At room temperature, it is the texture of butter but once heated slightly, it melts. The
smell is not exactly nice. Sometimes, you may come across shea butter that has a perfumed
smell; that is the kind that has been adulterated and no matter what has been written on it, be it
'100% shea butter', it is not pure.
Also, once shea butter has any color apart from beige, it is not pure. Sometimes, you may
come across brown or white shea butter, it has been adulterated and if you go ahead and buy
this kind, do not expect the results pure shea butter produces. Another way of knowing pure
shea butter is that it immediately relieves itching. If it does not do this, then it is fake.
Eventhough shea butter does not have a pleasant smell, once it is rubbed on the skin, it is
immediately absorbed by the skin and does not have any smell. Sometimes, your skin may feel
greasy after you rub shea butter; this is not supposed to be so.

All the characteristics of shea butter are found in Nigerian shea butter. Shea butter is produced
in numerous places but what matters is the quality. This is because the source of the shea
butter determines the strength of its healing. So the most important thing you should know
about shea butter if you are looking for the pure one is the source.

POTENTIAL FOR EXPORT

Nigeria, the leading exported shea butter in the world over the last two years sold an estimated
US$300,000, the Acting Executive Director of the Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC), Mr
Aliyu Lawal said here. Speaking at a one-day awareness workshop on "harnessing the untapped
potential of shear butter for exporty" on Thursday in Lafia, about 300 km from Abuja, Lawal said
that Nigeria had recorded a tremendous increase in the exportation of shea butter.

The by-product of shea nuts was capable of being a major foreign exchange earner for Nigeria if
well developed, Lawal said. He observed that the processors adherence to
quality assurance and best processing practices also contributed to the success achieved in its
production and exportation.
He praised the women, whom he said, formed the majority of processors in Nigeria. He
however, lamented that in spite of the leap, the commodity was yet to get its desired place at the
international market. He called for a more concerted effort to develop the industry. Loko said
that the state government had packaged incentives to attract investors to the sector.

STARTING A SHEA-BUTTER EXPORT BUSINESS

To start an export business, money is not the most important thing. You need to have the
knowledge, the right idea and the market needed. There is a promise to assist any Nigerian
with the right will power. What you need to succeed is Integrity, honesty, and diligence.
A lot of Nigerians are operating a highly lucrative home based export company and they are
making a steady Income of between N50 000 and N500 000 monthly, regulary with no capital
investment, no risk at their spare time. The profit from the first transaction can be ploughed
back and an investor will be able to build up his capital base.

COLLABORATION WITH NIGERIANS

Anyone into the ginger export business can work with a lot of Nigerians living in the UK to
identify the right product in the Nigerian market because they know the market and the terrain
and get regular request from such Nigerians from time to time.

EXPORT MENTORING SERVICES

This is the type of services given to Nigerians who no next to nothing about export and dont
have enough money but with small contract, you can then grow big to execute bigger contracts.

SHEA-BUTTER EXPORT AND VALUE CHAIN

Shea-butter Export has a value chain; you need to plan your export, then you need to get a
buyer who is called contract source. The next step is to source for the product followed by the
logistics process and documentation, before you eventually ship the products.

AGGREGATED EXPORT SERVICES:

The aggregated export service providers are professional bankers, oil and gas professionals and
retirees; some of these people have funds and they want to go into the lucrative export market.
If they subscribe to these services, the bills will go to these category of people every month
on the available export contract. If there is any they are interested in, they contribute and they
have return.
HOW NIGERIANS ESPECIALLY GRADUATES, CAN BENEFIT FROM EXPORT WITHOUT SPENDING A
DIME
There are jobs for this category of people especially the season of exportable products in the
Northern parts of the country. There is also promise by the proprietor to pay them up to 150
000 per trailer.

HOW TO MAKE N600 000 IN A MONTH LOADING AGRO-COMMODITIES FROM HINTERLAND

VILLAGES
If you are living in the North, you can go to Jigawa state, go to Babadu or Megatere market;
there is also a market between Bernin Kudu and Gwaram and in most major commodity markets
in the North and elsewhere, you can meet any of the sellers of sesame seed that live in these
towns and tell them and that you need a large quantity of sesame seed. A bag of sesame
seed is about 80kg to 100kg. All you need to do is to arrange the truck as well as people that
will load and negotiate with the driver. You will need to calculate all the expenses e. ga
truck load will carry 30 metric tones; if a truck will collect N240 000.

HERE ARE SOME SHEA-BUTTER EXPORT BUSINESS OPTIONS IN NIGERIA

FULL TIME EXPORTER:
These exporters only engage freight forwarders minimally for their port of loading operations.
The option are suitable for those who are available 24 hrs and also existing business providers
that will like to be fully involved in their export operations. The return on Investment on this
option could range from 30% to 45%. The exporter is involved in export planning, export
financing, export contract sourcing, export product sourcing, pre-export documentation, haulage
to the warehousing, warehousing and inspection, freight forwarding, haulage to the port of
loading and post export documentations.

PART TIME EXPORTERS

These exporters depend on consulting firms and freight forwarders to carry out some of their
export operations. This option is suitable for individuals that would like to start a business
while still in a paid employment and also have some time to spare . Is also a viable option
for existing businesses that want to divest. The return on investment for this option could
range from 25% to 35%. The exporter is involved in export planning, export financing,
export product, sourcing, pre-export documentation, haulage to the ware house, haulage to the
port of loading, post export documentation.

ARM CHAIR EXPORTER

These exporter depend on consulting firms, local buying agents and freight forwarders to carry
out most of their export operation. This option is suitable for individuals that would like to
start a business while still in a paid employment but do not have enough time to spare. The
return on Investment for this option could range from 10% to 25%. The exporter is only
involved in export planning, export financing, pre- export documentation and post export
documentation.

EXPORT BROKERAGE
An export broker is a match maker. Becoming an export broker is one of the easiest and the
most rewarding ways any prospecting exporter can raise money to go into full time export
business. Their advantage are enormous starting from little or no capital, an export broker
could earn large finders fees with absolutely unlimited income. There is hardly another
business requiring a negligible start-up cost that can put you into a six figure bracket so quickly
than an online based export business. It gives one the power, prestige and high
respectability in his community.
EXPORT BUSINESS CAN STILL ACCOMMODATE MORE NIGERIANS
The non oil export business is still at its very primitive stage in Nigeria with a high potential for
growth. The market is thus inexhaustible [especially for agriculture commodities and other
consumables]. Therefore, there is space for anyone that would like to earn foreign exchange
via the export business. If you are interested in export business, you can start as a
armchair export, or enter the business as a part-time exporter and finally as a full time exporter.
If you enter as a full time exporter, then you should grow to become a part time exporter and
finally a full time exporter depending on your strategy.

CONTENT PACKAGE (SURE SUCCESS PACKS FOR SHEA BUTTER)

Overview of Shea Butter Profile & Export.
Business opportunities in contract Sourcing/ Product Sourcing.
Profitability/Sample Cost Analysis engaging in Shea-butter Export.
Custom Related Documentation
Shea-Butter certification for International Trade.
International Quality Standard.
Labeling & Packaging.
US import duty status of Shea kernel & Shea butter, cosmetic creams/lotions,shampoo and toilet
soap containing shea butter.
Directory of Laboratories in West Africa for testing shea butter.
Where to source Shea butter in Nigeria that meets the standard premium grade 1 requirement.
Shea butter Bulk Export and trade show guide.
Sourcing Shea butter- A personal Experience.
Shea butter Export Logistics & Transportation.
A sample Specification of a laboratory analysis done on shea butter- Report N0. of this analysis
is US 621-2079/48363. 64504/10.
Shea butter Export market, Export price & Local price.
Shea butter specification and Grading.
How to get access to Thousands of foreign buyers for ginger & how to identify genuine serious
buyers.
Registering your company & getting a shea butter export license.
Guaranteed tried, and tested way to get paid by overseas clients.
The risk involved in Shea butter export and how to avoid it.
Shea-butter Export procedure.
Shea-butter Export unit
Shea-butter Export planning/Analysis your export process as a Business.
Shea-butter Export financing.
Transportation and logistics & Insurance.
Documents you must submit to your bank required by CBN before exporting this product.
Quality control & trade missions.
How to export duty free to the US market with comprehensive list of 6400 products under the
African Growth and opportunity act.
The 50 Export trade sites you must have to find buyers.
Directory of AGOA product exporters in West African Countries, another great opportunity to
start doing business with already established Exporters who are doing business with the
Americans. [pdf]
Trade Agreement/Securing export contracts in illustrative color diagrams.
Listing of all Registered Nigerian shipping companies, contacts and addresses to export shea
butter.
How to become a member of the Exporters Association of Nigeria with their application form.
Checklist for Exporting under AGOA.
How to access loan for your export business.
Manual on Sesame seed export.
Manual on palm oil processing and storage.
Reputable Organization to leverage on to succeed[optional for you]
Manuals on cassava export from Nigeria.
Handicraft Export Guide.
Guide to Foodstuff export Business.
Follow-up Support and regular export updates.

NOTE: The Shea Butter & Shea kernel packs was written and compiled for intending exporters of
this commodity and to give a sound footing, knowledge & detailed Information on this Business.
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