Google Trends is a great tool to predict the trend from keyword search volumes over the years, and we are going to share some interesting charts related to “wholesale”.  Charts are quoted from Google Trends.

The search volume for “international trade” actually keeps on declining over the years.  Is that against the globalization trend or is it just a sign of traditional large interanational trade transactions are declining?

Along with “international trade”, “wholesale” search volumes also keeps on declining over the years.

Here comes the interesting thing, as “wholesale” is declining, “China wholesale” search volumes actually increase steadly over hte past 5 years.  Does this mean people who used to search for “wholeasle” now have a clearer idea of getting information about wholesale products just from China?

Let’s make the keyword more accurate, “wholeale from China” is just the keyword showing poeple who are interested in getting wholesale products from China, and we can see it increases significantly in the past two years.

Instead of using “China wholesale”, the keyword which is usually related with business buyers (B2B), we pick another phrase, “buy from China” which can represent both the business buyers (B2B) and consumers (B2C). From the Google Trends chart, we can see obvious increase in the search volume since 2005.

Based on these charts from Google Trends, can we make the following conclusions?

1. China is becoming more and more important in the wholesale industry, and global buyers want to purchase wholesale products from China.

2. International trade used to only played by big buyers and manufacturers, and their weight in the global trading is declining. Many small international buyers start to join the game.

3. Global trading/shopping is nolonger limited to business to business (B2B), it is possible that consumers are starting to hunting for bargains globally.