Until recently, international trade was a discipline that few small businesses had the capacity to enter into. A combination of paperwork, fees, regulations, tariffs, and language barriers stopped them from participating - but ecommerce has changed things.
Ecommerce and globalisation have helped to create a vastly different landscape from the one that existed even five years ago. The advent of the internet and the unstoppable success of selling sites such as eBay and Amazon led ordinary retailers to the internet - and with it a global market of consumers just waiting to buy what was on offer from countries all around the world.