The 2013 Import and Export Market for Iron and Non-Alloy Steel Flat-Rolled Products Plated or Coated with Tin and At Least 600 mm Wide in Singapore

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products plated or coated with tin and at least 600 mm wide in Singapore face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products plated or coated with tin and at least 600 mm wide to Singapore? How important is Singapore compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products plated or coated with tin and at least 600 mm wide vary from one country of origin to another in Singapore? On the supply side, Singapore also exports iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products plated or coated with tin and at least 600 mm wide. Which countries receive the most exports from Singapore? 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 iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products plated or coated with tin and at least 600 mm wide in Singapore. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products plated or coated with tin and at least 600 mm wide for those countries serving Singapore via exports, or supplying from Singapore 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 Singapore fits into the world market for imported and exported iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled