Factories are moving south: land is cheaper, taxes lower and the ports fast. For an Estonian supplier, that is good news.
Georgia, North and South Carolina and Tennessee have been the biggest winners of industrial investment over the past decade. Car plants, the furniture industry and building-material manufacturing are growing there faster than anywhere else in the USA.
The ports of Savannah and Charleston are the gateways to this growth, and European lines serve them frequently.
New factories mean new supply chains that are still taking shape, and a new supplier has a far easier time getting in there than into an established chain. In our data, the share of shipments with Southeastern destination ports is rising steadily.
High Point, the historic center of the furniture industry, is in North Carolina, and its buyer base actively imports European components and blanks.
Filter buyers in our database by the destination ports of Savannah and Charleston: you will get a list of the Southeast's active importers. This region deserves a separate sales focus, not a leftover group.
The first consultation is free: together we'll see who in the US already buys your product and how to reach them.