The 2013 Import and Export Market for Potassic Mineral and Chemical Fertilizers Excluding Crude Natural Potassium Salts in Malaysia

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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