Global Business Leader: structure, risk and expansion

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I'm learning "Global Business Leader: structure, risk and expansion" on The Future Market. Lesson 1: "Choosing where to expand".

What the lesson teaches:
- The US International Trade Administration (ITA) runs trade.gov. Its "Get Ready to Export" section gives a three-phase Export Solutions Roadmap, and its Research Center lets you search by industry, country and region.
- Country Commercial Guides are reports prepared by US government professionals, mainly from the Commerce and State Departments, working at US embassies. They cover "market conditions, opportunities, regulations, and business customs." The page lists guides for many countries.
- The SBA says trade agreements can give a more predictable environment and make your products more cost-competitive. It also points to the Census Bureau's Global Market Finder and the ITA Market Diversification Tool for choosing markets.
- The SBA says to register intellectual property in the US first, then consider where to register it in other countries (Lesson 5).
- The SBA adds that foreign taxes and fees, such as VAT, may be charged on top of tariffs, and that the Customs Info Database and the FTA Tariff Tool help estimate duties.
- A scoring table is a simple tool, not a law: list countries in rows and your questions in columns (demand, competition, rules, tariffs and tax, payment risk, language, travel time), score each from 1 to 5 and add up the points. The numbers are your judgment, so write down where each score came from.

The exercise I'm working on:
Make a scoring table for three real countries and one product. Fill in each score with one source. Write one sentence on what would make your top pick wrong.

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 "Choosing where to expand" from the course "Global Business Leader: structure, risk and expansion".

Here's what the lesson says:
Before a team travels to a new town, it checks the map, the weather and what the town needs. A global leader does the same with countries. You pick a few, score them with real information, and visit the best one first, not the one that just sounds cool.

The activity:
Make a scoring table for three real countries and one product. Fill in each score with one source. Write one sentence on what would make your top pick wrong.

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.