The 2009 Import and Export Market for Wire Cloth, Grill, Netting, Fencing, and Expanded Metal of Iron, Steel, or Copper in Slovakia

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper in Slovakia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper to Slovakia? How important is Slovakia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper vary from one country of origin to another in Slovakia? On the supply side, Slovakia also exports wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper. Which countries receive the most exports from Slovakia? 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 wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper in Slovakia. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper for those countries serving Slovakia via exports, or supplying from Slovakia 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 Slovakia fits into the world market for imported and exported wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Slovakia 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 Slovakia is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Slovakia 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 wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper, Chapter 3 goes into detail on imports, but for each major country of origin serving Slovakia. A “major” market is defined as a country where Slovakia represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. For each major country exporting to Slovakia, one can thus observe how important Slovakia is to that exporting country compared to other countries of the world. Chapter 4 does the same, but for exports of wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper originating from Slovakia, for each major country of destination. In doing so, one can discover the share that Slovakia has in each major market; this share value is often used as a measure of competitiveness for Slovakia. 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 wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper to and from Slovakia to and from all other major countries in the world. "Wire Cloth, Grill, Netting, Fencing, and Expanded Metal of Iron, Steel, or Copper" 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 "wire cloth, grill, netting, fencing, and expanded metal of iron, steel, or copper" is 6935 . SHOW LESS READ MORE >

1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
2 SLOVAKIA AND THE WORLD MARKET
2.1 Imports in Slovakia in 2009
2.2 Exports from Slovakia in 2009
3 IMPORTS IN SLOVAKIA
3.1 Europe
3.1.1 Austria
3.1.2 Czech Republic
3.1.3 France
3.1.4 Germany
3.1.5 Hungary
3.1.6 Poland
3.1.7 Romania
3.1.8 Slovakia
3.1.9 Sweden
3.2 the Middle East
3.2.1 Turkey
4 EXPORTS FROM SLOVAKIA
4.1 Africa
4.1.1 South Africa
4.2 Asia
4.2.1 India
4.3 Europe
4.3.1 Austria
4.3.2 Belgium
4.3.3 Croatia
4.3.4 Czech Republic
4.3.5 France
4.3.6 Germany
4.3.7 Hungary
4.3.8 Ireland
4.3.9 Italy
4.3.10 Norway
4.3.11 Poland
4.3.12 Romania
4.3.13 Slovakia
4.3.14 Slovenia
4.3.15 Spain
4.3.16 the Netherlands
4.3.17 Ukraine
4.4 Latin America
4.4.1 Brazil
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5.1 Disclaimers & Safe Harbor
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