The 2013 Import and Export Market for Textile Floor Coverings, Kelem, Schumacks, Karamanie, and Similar Handwoven Rugs in Turkey

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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