The 2013 Import and Export Market for Hazelnuts and Filberts in Georgia

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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