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

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on food and live animals in Uruguay face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying food and live animals to Uruguay? How important is Uruguay 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 Uruguay? On the supply side, Uruguay also exports food and live animals. Which countries receive the most exports from Uruguay? 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 Uruguay. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 Uruguay via exports, or supplying from Uruguay 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 Uruguay 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 Uruguay 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