The 2013 Import and Export Market for Non-Electric Domestic Cooking or Heating Equipment of Iron or Steel in Slovakia

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel in Slovakia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel to Slovakia? How important is Slovakia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel vary from one country of origin to another in Slovakia? On the supply side, Slovakia also exports non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel. Which countries receive the most exports from Slovakia? 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 non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel in Slovakia. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel for those countries serving Slovakia via exports, or supplying from Slovakia 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 Slovakia fits into the world market for imported and exported non-electric domestic cooking or heating equipment of iron or steel. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Slovakia in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150