Import Company
An Import Company brings in consumer goods, semi products and natural resources from outside your economy — which gives your supply chains real flexibility, and matters most in the early game when little is available locally.
Operating an import company
Build it
Set up an Import Company from the Building menu.
Add an import
Click [Add Import] in the company’s interface.
Choose what to import
The list covers consumer products, semi products and natural resources. Select an item and click [Import].
Items already available locally carry an icon below their name. Click [Only Show Items Unavailable Locally] to filter the list down to what you actually cannot get.
Sell it on
Your imported goods appear in the interface, ready for distribution. Point your retail stores, factories or warehouses at the Import Company to buy from it.
Unlocking imports with Knowledge Points
If the item you need is not in the list, spend Knowledge Points on it: click [Use Knowledge Points] and select the item.
The limitations
Two, both there to keep imports from trivializing the game:
- One import company per corporation.
- Ten product types at a time per import company.
Import company options
The setup screen customizes how imports work across the whole game.
| Option | What it does |
|---|---|
| Import quality | The quality of the products that arrive. |
| Import product variety | How much is importable at the start of the game, as a percentage of all product types. |
| Import variety increase | Whether that variety widens over time. |
| Import semi products only | Restricts imports to semi products — no consumer products, no raw natural resources. |
| Constant supply | Whether imported supplies are always available. |
| Import volume modifier | Scales the volume of every import transaction. 100 is standard. |
To set these from a script, see the DLC script commands.