The 2013 Import and Export Market for Unroasted Coffee Including Decaffeinated in Tanzania

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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