The 2009 World Forecasts of Candles, Matches, Pyrophoric Alloys, Articles of Combustible Materials, and Smokers' Requisites Export Supplies

This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and export managers whose primary concern is the world market for candles, matches, pyrophoric alloys, articles of combustible materials, and smokers’ requisites. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact. I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for candles, matches, pyrophoric alloys, articles of combustible materials, and smokers’ requisites for those firms serving the world via exports and foreign direct investment. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

In what follows, this report begins by summarizing the world market for candles, matches, pyrophoric alloys, articles of combustible materials, and smokers’ requisites exports. The total level of exports on a worldwide basis is based on a model that 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 supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market. These shares lead to a volume of 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 supplier and the destinations (countries served by the supplier country). From these figures, world rankings are calculated. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information for strategic planning purposes. Of the 150 countries considered, if a country is not reported here it is therefore estimated to have only a negligible level of trade in candles, matches, pyrophoric alloys, articles of combustible materials, and smokers’ requisites (i.e. their market shares are close or equal to zero percent). "Candles, Matches, Pyrophoric Alloys, Articles of Combustible Materials, and Smokers’ Requisites" 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 "candles, matches, pyrophoric alloys, articles of combustible materials, and smokers’ requisites" is 8993 . SHOW LESS READ MORE >

1 METHODOLOGY & EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 8
1.1 Our Approach 8
1.2 The World Market: Candles, Matches, Pyrophoric Alloys, Articles of Combustible Materials, and Smokers’ Requisites Export Supplies in 2009 11
1.3 The World Market: Candles, Matches, Pyrophoric Alloys, Articles of Combustible Materials, and Smokers Requisites by Destination in 2009 14
2 AFRICA: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND SMOKERS REQUISITES 16
2.1 Executive Summary 16
2.2 Algeria 19
2.3 Cameroon 19
2.4 Cote dIvoire 20
2.5 Egypt 20
2.6 Ghana 21
2.7 Madagascar 21
2.8 Mauritius 21
2.9 Morocco 22
2.10 South Africa 22
2.11 Swaziland 23
2.12 Togo 23
2.13 Tunisia 23
2.14 Zimbabwe 24
3 ASIA: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND SMOKERS REQUISITES 25
3.1 Executive Summary 25
3.2 Bangladesh 28
3.3 China 29
3.4 Hong Kong 30
3.5 India 31
3.6 Indonesia 32
3.7 Japan 33
3.8 Macau 34
3.9 Malaysia 35
3.10 Nepal 36
3.11 North Korea 36
3.12 Philippines 37
3.13 Singapore 38
3.14 South Korea 39
3.15 Sri Lanka 40
3.16 Taiwan 41
3.17 Thailand 42
3.18 Vietnam 43
4 EUROPE: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND SMOKERS REQUISITES 44
4.1 Executive Summary 44
4.2 Albania 47
4.3 Andorra 47
4.4 Austria 48
4.5 Belarus 49
4.6 Belgium 50
4.7 Bosnia and Herzegovina 51
4.8 Bulgaria 51
4.9 Croatia 52
4.10 Cyprus 52
4.11 Czech Republic 53
4.12 Denmark 54
4.13 Estonia 55
4.14 Finland 56
4.15 France 57
4.16 Georgia 58
4.17 Germany 59
4.18 Greece 60
4.19 Hungary 61
4.20 Iceland 62
4.21 Ireland 62
4.22 Italy 63
4.23 Latvia 64
4.24 Lithuania 65
4.25 Luxembourg 65
4.26 Norway 66
4.27 Poland 67
4.28 Portugal 68
4.29 Romania 69
4.30 Russia 70
4.31 Serbia and Montenegro 70
4.32 Slovakia 71
4.33 Slovenia 72
4.34 Spain 73
4.35 Sweden 74
4.36 Switzerland 75
4.37 the Netherlands 76
4.38 the United Kingdom 77
4.39 Ukraine 78
5 LATIN AMERICA: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND SMOKERS REQUISITES 79
5.1 Executive Summary 79
5.2 Argentina 82
5.3 Brazil 83
5.4 Chile 84
5.5 Colombia 84
5.6 Costa Rica 84
5.7 El Salvador 85
5.8 Guatemala 85
5.9 Honduras 86
5.10 Mexico 86
5.11 Nicaragua 87
5.12 Panama 87
5.13 Peru 87
5.14 Venezuela 88
6 NORTH AMERICA & THE CARIBBEAN: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND 89
6.1 Executive Summary 89
6.2 Canada 92
6.3 Dominica 93
6.4 Dominican Republic 93
6.5 Jamaica 93
6.6 the Netherlands Antilles 94
6.7 the United States 95
6.8 Trinidad and Tobago 96
7 OCEANA: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND SMOKERS REQUISITES 97
7.1 Executive Summary 97
7.2 Australia 99
7.3 New Zealand 99
8 THE MIDDLE EAST: EXPORT SUPPLIES OF CANDLES, MATCHES, PYROPHORIC ALLOYS, ARTICLES OF COMBUSTIBLE MATERIALS, AND SMOKERS REQUISITES 100
8.1 Executive Summary 100
8.2 Azerbaijan 103
8.3 Iran 103
8.4 Israel 104
8.5 Jordan 104
8.6 Kuwait 105
8.7 Lebanon 105
8.8 Oman 105
8.9 Pakistan 106
8.10 Saudi Arabia 106
8.11 Syrian Arab Republic 107
8.12 the United Arab Emirates 108
8.13 Turkey 109
9 DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTEES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS 110
9.1 Disclaimers & Safe Harbor 110
9.2 ICON Group Ltd. User Agreement Provisions 111