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If this is your first business venture, I would strongly recommend that you talk to a business counselor before you do anything especially spend money. I’d call the local office of SCORE (go to http://www.score.org and input your zip code to find the chapter nearest you), the advice is FREE. Ask for someone who has a background in import/export and they will try their best to match you with the right counselor.
The counselor at SCORE will most likely advise you to write a business plan which is very good advice because it will force you to dig out all of the start up details and the costs of starting a tea import company and force you to also understand all of the aspects of this business including the customers you’ll concentrate on (your market ) and how you’ll get them to find out about and want your specialty teas.
You also have to have the proper state registration for your company, the right city and county licenses and permits and you have to be skilled at negotiating with your landlord about who’ll stand the cost of the build-out or the changes to the premises to make it ready for your specialty teas operation.
You also have to worry about the normal business planning and management issues related to starting up any business.
Take a look and read some of the articles at:http://www.ychange.com/small-business-co…
especially the ones about a business plan and starting a business. Also try their Blog and their Bulletin Board.
Hope this helped.