What to bring from where?



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Supporting international travel to have a logistics side: to transport goods.

Revisions:
    2015-xx-xx when [david's friend] jemi brought macadamia nuts from south africa to hamburg
    2015-xx-xx original doc on david desktop, i think ?
    2017-07-17 docu stub
    2017-08-26 merge with desktop docu
    2019-05-22 overview +lies @ihi3
    2019-09-05 overview @ben.berlin
    2020-02-26 quick overview
    2021-06-16 ping D+L
    20220321 ping <L
    20260214 ping <D (latam)

Ties to:
    #mercantilism #supplychains #postinternet #resources #systematics #hyperecon
    * 🔗maps
    * 🔗lim0
    * 🔗resources
    * 🔗ordering




*** MODES

Common to all listed goods should be that they are comparatively:
    * economic (cheap)
    * easy available
    * higher quality
    * sensible/scalable to transport
... in a specific location.


A) Essentials

Goods for self-use & interrior non-profit distribution:
    spices, contact lens fluid, aloe vera, laptops, cigarettes, alcohol, ...


B) Gifts

Cute & rare & relatively economic goods (for friends, hosts, etc):
    local artisan chocolate, souvenirs, natural obscurities, ...


C) Re-Distribution

Goods that can be sold at a profit (as easy as possible to "get rid of").

Needed:
    * capital for stock
    * storage capacity
    * universal redistributors (at scale):
        as much variety as possible, to offload any goods
    * [...]






*** GOODS, BY LOCATION


→ (everywhere) →
:
    * local rare seeds
### rethink this
    * chosen collectible souvenirs:
        * for David for mom: Thimbles ! ;)
        * for Lies: shells !
        <-------------------------------------- (new) INTERNAL COLLECTIBLES ;-)


→Lanzarote
:
    * honey
    * nomadic solar panels
    * electronics gadgets (batteries, etc)
    * service industry (workshops, etc)
    * art & culture
    * [...]



Germany→
:
    * contact lens fluid (@Rossman)
    * "Modulor" bags @Berlin
    * [...]



Lanzarote→
:
    * [↓]SPAIN
    * salt !!!!!
    * booze
    * cigarres, tobacco products
    * aloe trees
    * lemon trees:
        (I saw one being sold in hamburg for 65€ ... You could fit 2 like that in a 20€ luggage bag)
    * aloe vera ?



Spain→
:
    * maduro cheese:
        10 vs 20€+/kg abroad
        high nutrition, great value
    * sausages (fuet, salcichon, chorizo)
    * olives
    * red wine
    * fish



Belgium→
:
    * high-quality belgian chocolate ~20€/kg:
        (you could load off with 10-20€/kg profit if properly repacked?)
    * sauces (samurai, mammooth, etc)
    * [...]



Slovenia→
:
    * honey
    * white wine (from Štajerska, like Renski Rizling, or Šipon):
        Mercator (Hipermarkets) have wine 2.09€ per L, wine tap ("faß")- great white & red
    * red wine Teran (Wikipedia🔗Teran)
    * šnops (schnaps)
    * Sedum annuum (eng: annual stonecrop) Alpine plant
    * "Radenska" mineral water
    * pumpkin oil (100%!) ~15€
    * Multi Sola natural fruti elixier
    * Propolis
    * [...]



France→

* Sosh SIM cards (~70GB roaming for ~12€/per month) !!!

* spices from ethnic markets ! (turkish, etc)

* ~ "opinel" knife ("specific for france") - "it is a specific kind of open-close knife with a lock"

* [...]



Prague→
:
    * absinthe ?



(Ethnic markets in EU cities)→
:
    * spices
    * cheap nuts
    * ???



China / Shenzhen→
:
    * electronic parts
    * [...]



UK / London→
:
    * spices !!!



India / Asia / Africa / global South →
:
    * instruments ?
    * furniture ?
    * spices
    * ###



South Africa→
:
    * macadamia nuts ~ 5€/kg:
        (you could load off with 10€/kg profit?)
    * [...]



→Cuba:
    → 🔗bring-cuba !!!



Cuba→
:
    * good quality honey
    * mango in quantities? (check border)
    * cigars:
        official can be more expensive than foreign, check prices!
        (!!) beware fakes
    * rum:
        find <10$ guayabita de pinar!
    * old communist merch:
        lots of Cuban, Soviet badges
    * cacao?
    * ###



Colombia→
:
    * coffee
    * dentistry
    * cocoa?
    * uchuva fruit? (if going direct)
    * panela? :)
    * leather goods:
        "solid and cheaper"
    * ###



Guatemala→
:
    * dentistry
    * Mayan textiles (huipiles, scarves, blankets, ...):
        * Chichi market! ("Thu & Sat")
    * second-hand clothes & shoes:
        can find great prices for USA-donated stuff, shops everywhere
    * coffee:
        "High-altitude Guatemalan coffee, especially Antigua or Atitlán region beans, is world-class."
    * ###



Chiapas Mexico→
:
    * Zapatista coffee
    * Zapatista merch (shirts, figurines)
    * good quality honey (ask it doesn't have sugar)
    * dentistry
    * handwoven textiles (huipiles/ponchos?)
    * amber jewelry?
    * macadamia nuts in shell?:
        120mxn/kg (6€) in shell ... 30% is seed
        in Europe "20€+" ?
    * ###



Mexico / CDMX Mexico→
:
    * mezcal (10€ bottles)
    * premium/artesanal mezcal?:
        "can be 2-3x more valuable outside of Mexico"
        ↓
        consult https://www.reddit.com/r/Mezcal/comments/1e6zo8k/current_mezcal_collection_from_a_european
    * vanilla beans?:
        (<LLM ... check prices)
    * ###




<-------------------------- (new) EXPORT SITES ↑






*** VIRTUAL EXCHANGE


<-INPUT

  * local rare data / content:

  * art (music, film, media) collections
      * ,,,pub data (photos of design, etc, etc etc) <-- ?


OUTPUT->

  * sensor data ?
    * [...]

  * remote labour

???!!!






*** PAD


"Main research direction" ?

    try 1):
        If something is produced somewhere, in some territory
        And the territory has some specific property (geographic, social/economic, ...)
        Then there is a good chance, there will be specific types of product / service available to export to other places

    try 2):
        Globalisation very much erased "opportunity" for small-scale mercantilism
        However, specific types of source items ["authentic", hand-crafted, ... fast developing like tech gadgets]
        ... in specific localities [less reached by globalism - like Canaries]
        ... might present this opportunity



Topics / Taglines
:
    * "P2P TRADE"
    * OPEN LOGISTICS
    * [This is a way to] offset #hypertravel ... to #earn
    * "Stuff which value significantly grows when changing territory":
        a) to any other territory
        b) to a specific other territory
    * supply chains
    * [part of] #postinternet goods distribution
    * #mercantilism / #lim0
    * [...]




Alike / to search for
:
    * https://grabr.io/en/ :
        """Grabr is the go-to way to shop for products that aren't available in your country or are too expensive to buy locally. You can order just about anything on Grabr, from baby clothes and kids toys to tech gadgets and nutritional supplements."""
    * "Unique things to buy in X":
        http://www.fodors.com/community/europe/unique-things-to-buy-in-italy.cfm
    * "What to Buy in X"
    * "What can I bring back from X"
    * "What Souvenirs to Bring Back from X"
    * [...]



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