diff --git a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-store/export.md b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-store/export.md
index ba51ff5f6..ba772eb43 100644
--- a/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-store/export.md
+++ b/doc/manual/src/command-ref/nix-store/export.md
@@ -8,16 +8,20 @@
 
 ## Description
 
-The operation `--export` writes a serialisation of the specified store
-paths to standard output in a format that can be imported into another
-Nix store with `nix-store --import`. This is like `nix-store
---dump`, except that the [Nix Archive (NAR)][Nix Archive] produced by that command doesn’t
-contain the necessary meta-information to allow it to be imported into
-another Nix store (namely, the set of references of the path).
+The operation `--export` writes a serialisation of the given [store objects](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-store-object) to standard output in a format that can be imported into another [Nix store](@docroot@/store/index.md) with [`nix-store --import`](./import.md).
 
-This command does not produce a *closure* of the specified paths, so if
-a store path references other store paths that are missing in the target
-Nix store, the import will fail.
+> **Warning**
+>
+> This command *does not* produce a [closure](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-closure) of the specified store paths.
+> Trying to import a store object that refers to store paths not available in the target Nix store will fail.
+>
+> Use [`nix-store --query`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-store/query.md) to obtain the closure of a store path.
+
+This command is different from [`nix-store --dump`](./dump.md), which produces a [Nix archive](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-nar) that *does not* contain the set of [references](@docroot@/glossary.md#gloss-reference) of a given store path.
+
+> **Note**
+>
+> For efficient transfer of closures to remote machines over SSH, use [`nix-copy-closure`](@docroot@/command-ref/nix-copy-closure.md).
 
 [Nix Archive]: @docroot@/store/file-system-object/content-address.md#serial-nix-archive