The 2013 Import and Export Market for Fats and Oils from Fish and Marine Mammals and Their Fractions Excluding Chemically Modified Fractions in Iceland

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on fats and oils from fish and marine mammals and their fractions excluding chemically modified fractions in Iceland face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying fats and oils from fish and marine mammals and their fractions excluding chemically modified fractions to Iceland? How important is Iceland compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of fats and oils from fish and marine mammals and their fractions excluding chemically modified fractions vary from one country of origin to another in Iceland? On the supply side, Iceland also exports fats and oils from fish and marine mammals and their fractions excluding chemically modified fractions. Which countries receive the most exports from Iceland? 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 fats and oils from fish and marine mammals and their fractions excluding chemically modified fractions in Iceland. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 fats and oils from fish and marine mammals and their fractions excluding chemically modified fractions for those countries serving Iceland via exports, or supplying from Iceland 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 Iceland fits into the world market for imported and exported fats and oils from fish and