The 2013 Import and Export Market for Brooms, Brushes, Mops, Feather Dusters, Prepared Knots and Tufts, and Paint Pads in Dominican Republic

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared knots and tufts, and paint pads in Dominican Republic face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared knots and tufts, and paint pads to Dominican Republic? How important is Dominican Republic compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared knots and tufts, and paint pads vary from one country of origin to another in Dominican Republic? On the supply side, Dominican Republic also exports brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared knots and tufts, and paint pads. Which countries receive the most exports from Dominican 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 brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared knots and tufts, and paint pads in Dominican 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared knots and tufts, and paint pads for those countries serving Dominican Republic via exports, or supplying from Dominican 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 Dominican Republic fits into the world market for imported and exported brooms, brushes, mops, feather dusters, prepared