The 2009 Import and Export Market for Self-Adhesive Plastic Plates, Sheets, Film, Foil, Tape, and Other Flat Shapes in Rolls Up to 20 Centimeters Wide in Trinidad and Tobago

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide in Trinidad and Tobago face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide to Trinidad and Tobago? How important is Trinidad and Tobago compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide vary from one country of origin to another in Trinidad and Tobago? On the supply side, Trinidad and Tobago also exports self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide. Which countries receive the most exports from Trinidad and Tobago? How are these exports concentrated across buyers? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide in Trinidad and Tobago. With the globalization of this market, managers can no longer be contented with a local view. Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide for those countries serving Trinidad and Tobago via exports, or supplying from Trinidad and Tobago via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where Trinidad and Tobago fits into the world market for imported and exported self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Trinidad and Tobago in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there, each country represents a percent of the world market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that Trinidad and Tobago is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Trinidad and Tobago compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.

After the worldwide summary in Chapter 2 of both imports and exports of self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide, Chapter 3 goes into detail on imports, but for each major country of origin serving Trinidad and Tobago. A “major” market is defined as a country where Trinidad and Tobago represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. For each major country exporting to Trinidad and Tobago, one can thus observe how important Trinidad and Tobago is to that exporting country compared to other countries of the world. Chapter 4 does the same, but for exports of self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide originating from Trinidad and Tobago, for each major country of destination. In doing so, one can discover the share that Trinidad and Tobago has in each major market; this share value is often used as a measure of competitiveness for Trinidad and Tobago. In all cases, the total dollar volume and percentage share values by major trading partner are provided. Combined, Chapters 3 and 4 present a the total picture for imports and exports of self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide to and from Trinidad and Tobago to and from all other major countries in the world. "Self-Adhesive Plastic Plates, Sheets, Film, Foil, Tape, and Other Flat Shapes in Rolls Up to 20 Centimeters Wide" as a category is defined in this report following the definition given by the United Nations Statistics Division Classification Registry using the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3 (SITC, Rev. 3). The SITC code that defined "self-adhesive plastic plates, sheets, film, foil, tape, and other flat shapes in rolls up to 20 centimeters wide" is 58211 . SHOW LESS READ MORE >

1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
2 TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO AND THE WORLD MARKET
2.1 Imports in Trinidad and Tobago in 2009
2.2 Exports from Trinidad and Tobago in 2009
3 IMPORTS IN TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
3.1 Latin America
3.1.1 Brazil
3.1.2 Mexico
4 EXPORTS FROM TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO
4.1 Latin America
4.1.1 Guyana
5 DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTEES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
5.1 Disclaimers & Safe Harbor
5.2 ICON Group Ltd. User Agreement Provisions