The 2013 Import and Export Market for Fiberboard of Wood or Other Ligneous Materials in Luxembourg

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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