The following permissions are necessary for exporting and importing:
To create a transport package in a certain folder of the Portal Catalog, you need read/write permission for this folder.
To assign content objects to a package, you need at least read permission for the objects to be assigned.
A user having the system administration role can import any package that is in the import directory.
You can only import objects into the Portal Content Directory if you have read/write permission for each folder in the Portal Catalog where the imported objects are to be stored.
More information: Permission Levels .