Import, Export & Small Trading Business

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I'm learning "Import, Export & Small Trading Business" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "How small trading works".

What the lesson teaches:
- A trading business makes money on the gap between what it pays for goods (plus every cost to get them to the customer) and what it sells them for. That gap is your gross margin.
- Importing = bringing goods into your country to sell. Exporting = sending goods out of your country to a buyer abroad. Many small traders do one first, then both.
- The number that matters most is landed cost: product price + shipping + insurance + duties and taxes + broker and handling fees + local delivery. If you only compare the supplier price to your selling price, you will underprice.
- Common small-trader models: buy-and-resell (you hold stock), sourcing agent (you find suppliers for others for a fee), and selling local products to buyers abroad.
- Big risks: goods arrive late or damaged, the product is not allowed in, the supplier is a scam, the exchange rate moves, or nobody buys.

The exercise I'm working on:
Pick one product you think you could import or export. Make a 6-row table like the example above. Fill in what you know, and write "need quote" for anything you don't. You will fill in the blanks in Lessons 3 and 4. ---

I'm stuck. Please:
1. Explain the main idea in plain, simple words with one everyday example.
2. Walk me through the exercise one small step at a time. Ask me what I've done so far before giving the next step.
3. Don't just give me the final answer. Help me do it myself, and check my work when I share it.

I'm a parent helping my child (about 8 years old) with a lesson called "How small trading works" from the course "Import, Export & Small Trading Business".

Here's what the lesson says:
Trading is like buying a big bag of candy at the store and selling single candies at school. But you only win if the price you sell for covers the candy, the bus ride to the store, and the bag. In trading, the bus ride is shipping, and there are fees at the border too.

The activity:
Pick one product you think you could import or export. Make a 6-row table like the example above. Fill in what you know, and write "need quote" for anything you don't. You will fill in the blanks in Lessons 3 and 4. ---

Please explain this so an 8-year-old understands: short sentences, a fun everyday example, and no hard words.
Then give me 3 simple questions I can ask my child to check they understood, and a way to do the activity together, one tiny step at a time.