The 2013 Import and Export Market for Wooden Tools, Tool Bodies, and Handles, Wooden Broom or Brush Bodies and Handles, and Wooden Boot or Shoe Trees and Lasts in Germany

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on wooden tools, tool bodies, and handles, wooden broom or brush bodies and handles, and wooden boot or shoe trees and lasts in Germany face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying wooden tools, tool bodies, and handles, wooden broom or brush bodies and handles, and wooden boot or shoe trees and lasts to Germany? How important is Germany compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of wooden tools, tool bodies, and handles, wooden broom or brush bodies and handles, and wooden boot or shoe trees and lasts vary from one country of origin to another in Germany? On the supply side, Germany also exports wooden tools, tool bodies, and handles, wooden broom or brush bodies and handles, and wooden boot or shoe trees and lasts. Which countries receive the most exports from Germany? 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 wooden tools, tool bodies, and handles, wooden broom or brush bodies and handles, and wooden boot or shoe trees and lasts in Germany. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 wooden tools, tool bodies, and handles, wooden broom or brush bodies and handles, and wooden boot or shoe trees and lasts for those countries serving Germany via exports, or supplying from Germany 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