The 2013 Import and Export Market for Knotted Textile Floor Coverings of Wool or Fine Animal Hair in Iran

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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