The 2013 Import and Export Market for Circular, Slitting, or Slotting Saw Blades with Working Part of Steel in Switzerland

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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