The 2009 Import and Export Market for Food and Live Animals in Venezuela

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on food and live animals in Venezuela face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying food and live animals to Venezuela? How important is Venezuela compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of food and live animals vary from one country of origin to another in Venezuela? On the supply side, Venezuela also exports food and live animals. Which countries receive the most exports from Venezuela? 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 food and live animals in Venezuela. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 food and live animals for those countries serving Venezuela via exports, or supplying from Venezuela 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 Venezuela fits into the world market for imported and exported food and live animals. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Venezuela 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