The 2013 Import and Export Market for Painted, Varnished, or Plastic-Coated Iron and Non-Alloy Steel Flat-Rolled Products in Latvia

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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