The 2013 Import and Export Market for Sewing Thread Made of Manmade Fibers in Israel

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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