The 2013 Import and Export Market for Animal Feed Made from Fish, Crustaceans, Mollusks, or Aquatic Invertebrates in Ecuador

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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