Global Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce Growing at Double-Digit Rates

“Global Cross-Border B2C E-Commerce 2015”, a new report by Hamburg-based secondary market research company yStats.com, unveils the great potential of cross-border online retail worldwide. According to the report, the value of purchases made directly by online shoppers across the national borders is predicted to see double-digit growth rates over the course of the next five years.

Cross-border B2C E-Commerce is expanding worldwide. It is projected to see accelerating growth rates until 2017 and then decline slightly, while still maintaining double-digit growth figures. Global online shoppers are motivated to buy directly from foreign online merchants due to better product availability and prices, while among the major hindrances to cross-border purchases are customs charges, higher shipping costs and longer delivery times. Clothing and footwear succeeded as the product category most purchased by cross-border online shoppers across all global regions last year.

Asia-Pacific is predicted to become the largest region in global cross-border online retail, reaching a share of approximately 40% of all cross-border sales in the next years. China is an important country for both cross-border online imports and exports. Close to a third of active online shoppers in China have made purchases across borders, and China-based E-Commerce marketplace AliExpress of Alibaba Group is a popular destination for online shoppers in countries such as Brazil, Russia and others. Alibaba’s competitor JD.com also strives to participate in the cross-border boom, having opened a global marketplace for overseas merchants to sell to China and having launched a website targeting Russian online shoppers.

Cross-border online shoppers in Canada and Latin America last year primarily targeted US online retailers. The most popular way of engaging in cross-border trade for the companies from the USA was through marketplaces such as Amazon. Amazon reported that, in 2014, cross-border sales volume of sellers on its marketplace nearly doubled. Online merchants from the UK are popular targets for cross-border online shoppers worldwide as well, with cross-border shipping accounting for nearly a quarter of online orders dispatched from the UK at the end of 2014. Generally, cross-border online shopping was more intense between the EU member states than between the EU countries and non-EU countries, but EU authorities are undertaking efforts to further spur cross-border online shopping, seeing the benefits both for consumers and the businesses.

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Founded in 2005 and headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, yStats.com is one of the world's leading secondary market research companies. We are committed to providing the most up-to-date and objective data on Global B2C E-Commerce and Online Payment markets to sector-leading companies worldwide.

Our multilingual staff researches, gathers, filters and translates information from thousands of reputable sources to synthesize accurate and timely reports in our areas of expertise, covering more than 100 countries and all global regions. Our market reports focus predominantly on online retail and payments, but also cover a broad range of related topics including M-Commerce, Cross-Border E-Commerce, E-Commerce Delivery, Online Gaming and many others. In addition to our wide selection of market reports, we also provide custom market research services.

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