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[lordofhyphens]

I've been experimenting with different export industries (different than stone mugs, that is), and I've come across prepackaged meals as a way to exploit skill crossovers.
Advantages:

• Dwarves can/will eat whatever I don't sell.
• The same skillset that makes valuable export items also improves fortress happiness

Disadvantages:

• Make sure not to trade everything off (can be mitigated with a 'prepared food only' stockpile that disallows barrels

That being said... I've also got more dyed cloth than I know what to do with. What's your chief export product?

[Xenos]

mugs/crafts/etc. meals, and serrated discs. 

[HoaBinh]

I was exporting stone crafts/toys/others and some bone stuff from my meat industry. Then the goblin sieges started .... over and over and over ... last caravan that actually spawned got goblinite for 120.000 in trade for some drinks and dyes worth 3.000.

The stone crafting has also ground to a halt, we're being animal-exploded and my two bone crafters can barely keep up with the butchers.

[Urist Imiknorris]

My biggest export is vengeance, followed closely by goblin silk.

[FuzzyZergling]

I also use prepared meals.
A good stack of roasts can go up to three thousand dorfbucks.

[Zrk2]

My biggest export is vengeance, followed closely by goblin silk.

Brilliant! I export silver crafts, or, due to goblinite, steel armour from my legendary armoursmith.

[twilightdusk]

Assorted glass crafts and the occasional stone statue (ones of vermin or other things my dwarves hate. Bonus points for giving the statue as an offering)

[Daywalkah]

Stone statues since I have a Legendary Mason. Anything made of copper and sometimes iron, especially trap components. To the Elves, I give them magma. Only the finest for them.

[Dorf3000]

1st winter: prepared meals
2nd year: prepared meals and totems/bone crafts from tasty wildlife/cavern critters
3rd year onwards: serrated discs and spikes and other trap components that are massively overpriced, gem-encrusted totems and bone crafts, plus I dump all the goblin and kobold clothes on the caravan that clutter up my stockpiles.

If you have the patience to set up a dyeing industry then dyed silk or cloth crafts earn quite a lot and are very easy to carry.  Plus you get rid of all that *cough cough* damp Elven cloth lying around without needing to make bags or ropes.

[Max White]

Large, steel serrated discs. No realy, one or two, if you have a good weapon smith, WILL buy out your first caravan. If your good with production and have the right layers, you can have years worth of caravans ready by your first trade season. Of corse this might delay some other things such as your farms, but between embark food and gathering herbs, I always hold out.

[Marthnn]

I export silver crafts, or, due to goblinite, steel armour from my legendary armoursmith.

WHAT?!! You export STEEL ARMOURS?!! You contribute to arm potential ennemies to the dwarves? BETRAYAL!

Steel is the dwarven main advantage in common equipments. Handing it over to other civilizations in exchange for petty animals, aboveground food and booze or other such lowly goods is nothing more than unconscious incompetence.

[Max White]

WHAT?!! You export STEEL ARMOURS?!! You contribute to arm potential ennemies to the dwarves? BETRAYAL!

Steel is the dwarven main advantage in common equipments. Handing it over to other civilizations in exchange for petty animals, aboveground food and booze or other such lowly goods is nothing more than unconscious incompetence.

If this trade ark goes well, you might be more correct then you think.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Unless you only trade steel with the dwarves.

[Max White]

Hmm, so to make things even, I should trade steel to dwarves, iron to humans and wood to elves. 

[Marthnn]

Hmm, so to make things even, I should trade steel to dwarves, iron to humans and wood to elves. 

Yes. Except wood to elves... no can do. Sorry. They won't accept. Better sell them their countless clothes, dyed and turned into !!socks!! (if only we could).