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Positioned in the middle of the European mainland and flanked by Croatia, Hungary, Austria, Italy, and the Adriatic Sea, Slovenia is the ideal gateway to doing business in south eastern European markets. Not one of Europe’s biggest markets, it is developing economically, and has about 20 British businesses operating from there, including Astrazeneca, Castrol, Shell and Unilever.

If you want to tap into this emerging market, and take advantage of its central location, here’s all you need to know about exporting to Slovenia.

Situated right in the middle of mainland Europe, Slovakia has enormous growth potential and can offer a great Central and European base for any business.

There are more than 100 UK owned companies operating in Slovakia, including include BAE Systems, GlaxoSmithKline, Provident Financial, Shell, and Tate and Lyle. And Tesco not only Slovakia’s top retailer, it is one of the country’s main employers.

If you want to join this growing list, here’s everything you need to know about exporting to Slovakia.

Europe’s most westerly country, Portugal is has ties to its former, Portuguese-speaking colonies such as Angola, Brazil and Mozambique, opening up a market in excess of 250 million people. It also has strong links with the UK, not only as a popular tourist destination, but as home to around 80,000 ex-pats.

The UK is currently the fourth largest investor in Portugal, and its sixth largest supplier, with services worth €1.3 billion, and goods exports totaling €1.8 billion, most of which were accounted for by:

• Automotive
• Life sciences
• Information economy

Services exports were in travel, transport and other business services.

Here’s everything you need to know about exporting to Portugal.

Exports from the UK to Panama are worth around £149 million, and the UK is the second largest investor in Panama with holdings worth more than $3.3 billion. This is largely due to the Colón Free Trade Zone, an area near the entrance to the Panama Canal dedicated to re-exporting a wide variety of merchandise to Latin America and the Caribbean.

The UK’s main exports to Panama include:

• beverages (notably Scotch Whisky)
• organic chemicals
• medical and pharmaceuticals products
• machinery
• transport equipment

If you want  to take advantage of this unique trading opportunity, here’s everything you need to know about exporting to Panama.

Pakistan offers a great opportunity for UK-based businesses looking to cast their net far and wide – one of the world’s youngest populations, a growing middle class, and a wealth of natural resources mean it is an economy that is definitely on the up.

More than 100 British companies currently operate there, including big name businesses as diverse as Debenhams, Toni & Guy, and Unilever. Goods exports from the UK are worth over £600 million, with bilateral trade worth about £2.2 billion.

The top exports from the UK to Pakistan are:

• Specialised industrial machinery.
• Power generation machinery.
• Telecom and broadcasting equipment.
• Chemicals, pharmaceutical and medical products.
• Metal ores and scrap metal.

If you want to take advantage of this growing market, here’s everything you need to know about exporting to Pakistan.

Although only about a sixth of the size of the UK, the Netherlands is the world’s fourth most densely populated country, with around 17 million people packed on to 41,543 sq km of northern European soil. It also has a very healthy economy, which weighs in a the EU’s sixth largest and the world’s 16th largest.

The nation currently houses over 400 British companies, and is the UK’s fourth largest bilateral trading partner. UK goods exports to the Netherlands are worth around £27 billion, and the top five exports are:

• mineral fuels, oils and distillation products
• pharmaceuticals
• nuclear reactors, boilers, machinery
• vehicles
• organic chemicals

If you want to take advantage of the plentiful business opportunities, here’s everything you need to know about exporting to the Netherlands.

New Zealand is a rapidly expanding nation, with an economy that’s embraced a number of new sectors over the last decade or so – where its earnings were once dominated by farm products, namely wool, meat and dairy, it’s now supported by burgeoning tourism, film production and wine-making industries.

Trade between the UK and New Zealand is worth a healthy £1.1 billion a year, and the top UK exports to New Zealand include:

• automotive
• machinery and mechanical appliances
• printing
• pharmaceutical
• food and beverage
• optical medical and measuring equipment
• electrical machinery and equipment

If you’re thinking of doing business on the other side of the world, here’s everything you need to know about exporting to New Zealand…

Those in the know see Mexico growing as an economic power over the next couple of decades, and making the leap from being the world’s 15th largest economy (where it’s currently ranked), to the fifth.

And the Mexican economy has continued to grow despite other Latin American countries seeing their’s shrink.

Trade between the UK and Mexico is worth around£1.1 billion, and the top five UK exports to Mexico are:

• Power generating machinery and equipment
• Road vehicles
• Medicinal and pharmaceutical products
• Beverages
• Essential oils and perfume materials.

Here’s everything you need to know about exporting to Mexico.