On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils in Taiwan face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils to Taiwan? How important is Taiwan compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils vary from one country of origin to another in Taiwan? On the supply side, Taiwan also exports hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils. Which countries receive the most exports from Taiwan? 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 hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils in Taiwan. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear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 hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils for those countries serving Taiwan via exports, or supplying from Taiwan 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 Taiwan fits into the world market for imported and exported hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Taiwan 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 Taiwan is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Taiwan 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 hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils, Chapter 3 goes into detail on imports, but for each major country of origin serving Taiwan. A “major” market is defined as a country where Taiwan represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. For each major country exporting to Taiwan, one can thus observe how important Taiwan is to that exporting country compared to other countries of the world. Chapter 4 does the same, but for exports of hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils originating from Taiwan, for each major country of destination. In doing so, one can discover the share that Taiwan has in each major market; this share value is often used as a measure of competitiveness for Taiwan. 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 hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils to and from Taiwan to and from all other major countries in the world. "Hot-Rolled, Free-Cutting Steel Bars and Rods in Irregular Coils" 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 "hot-rolled, free-cutting steel bars and rods in irregular coils" is 67612 .
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1 INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
2 TAIWAN AND THE WORLD MARKET
2.1 Imports in Taiwan in 2011
2.2 Exports from Taiwan in 2011
3 IMPORTS IN TAIWAN
3.1 Africa
3.1.1 South Africa
3.2 Asia
3.2.1 India
3.2.2 Japan
3.3 Europe
3.3.1 France
3.3.2 Germany
3.3.3 Spain
3.3.4 the United Kingdom
4 EXPORTS FROM TAIWAN
4.1 Asia
4.1.1 China
4.1.2 Indonesia
4.1.3 Philippines
4.1.4 Singapore
4.1.5 South Korea
5 DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTEES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
5.1 Disclaimers & Safe Harbor
5.2 ICON Group Ltd. User Agreement Provisions