The 2013 Import and Export Market for Green or Dry Hay and Fodder in the United Arab Emirates

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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