The 2013 Import and Export Market for Bread, Baked Goods, Pastry, Cakes, Biscuits, Communion Wafers, Empty Cachets for Pharmaceutical Use, Sealing Wafers, and Rice Paper in Guatemala

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on bread, baked goods, pastry, cakes, biscuits, communion wafers, empty cachets for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, and rice paper in Guatemala face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying bread, baked goods, pastry, cakes, biscuits, communion wafers, empty cachets for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, and rice paper to Guatemala? How important is Guatemala compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of bread, baked goods, pastry, cakes, biscuits, communion wafers, empty cachets for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, and rice paper vary from one country of origin to another in Guatemala? On the supply side, Guatemala also exports bread, baked goods, pastry, cakes, biscuits, communion wafers, empty cachets for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, and rice paper. Which countries receive the most exports from Guatemala? 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 bread, baked goods, pastry, cakes, biscuits, communion wafers, empty cachets for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, and rice paper in Guatemala. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 bread, baked goods, pastry, cakes, biscuits, communion wafers, empty cachets for pharmaceutical use, sealing wafers, and rice paper for those countries serving Guatemala via exports, or supplying from Guatemala via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical