Migrating and developing content types
You will have no problem if you have the same field types installed on the localhost. For example If you are using the email field in your production site, it should be installed also in the localhost. 

Assuming your are using Drupal 7, you have three choices:


Features
Bundle copy



  Bundle copy is a replacement for the Content copy module which lives
  in the CCK project for Drupal 6.



Field tools(currently alpha)