The 2013 Import and Export Market for Cosmetic Preparations for the Hair Including Shampoos in Lebanon

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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