The 2011 Import and Export Market for Paper and Paperboard Box Files, Letter Trays, Storage Boxes, and Similar Articles Used in Offices, Shops, and Places of Business in Greece

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business in Greece face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business to Greece? How important is Greece compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business vary from one country of origin to another in Greece? On the supply side, Greece also exports paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business. Which countries receive the most exports from Greece? 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 paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business in Greece. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business for those countries serving Greece via exports, or supplying from Greece 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 Greece fits into the world market for imported and exported paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Greece 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 Greece is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Greece 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 paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business, Chapter 3 goes into detail on imports, but for each major country of origin serving Greece. A “major” market is defined as a country where Greece represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. For each major country exporting to Greece, one can thus observe how important Greece is to that exporting country compared to other countries of the world. Chapter 4 does the same, but for exports of paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business originating from Greece, for each major country of destination. In doing so, one can discover the share that Greece has in each major market; this share value is often used as a measure of competitiveness for Greece. 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 paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business to and from Greece to and from all other major countries in the world. "Paper and Paperboard Box Files, Letter Trays, Storage Boxes, and Similar Articles Used in Offices, Shops, and Places of Business" 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 "paper and paperboard box files, letter trays, storage boxes, and similar articles used in offices, shops, and places of business" is 64216 . SHOW LESS READ MORE >

1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
2 GREECE AND THE WORLD MARKET
2.1 Imports in Greece in 2011
2.2 Exports from Greece in 2011
3 IMPORTS IN GREECE
3.1 Asia
3.1.1 China
3.1.2 Hong Kong
3.1.3 Thailand
3.2 Europe
3.2.1 Austria
3.2.2 Bulgaria
3.2.3 Czech Republic
3.2.4 France
3.2.5 Germany
3.2.6 Hungary
3.2.7 Italy
3.2.8 Poland
3.2.9 Sweden
3.2.10 the Netherlands
3.3 the Middle East
3.3.1 Turkey
4 EXPORTS FROM GREECE
4.1 Europe
4.1.1 Cyprus
4.1.2 Italy
4.1.3 Romania
4.1.4 the Netherlands
5 DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTEES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
5.1 Disclaimers & Safe Harbor
5.2 ICON Group Ltd. User Agreement Provisions