The 2013 Import and Export Market for Cut-to-Size Cigarette Paper in Czech Republic

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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