The 2013 Import and Export Market for Orthopedic Appliances, Crutches, Surgical Belts, Fracture Appliances, Artificial Body Parts, Hearing Aids, and Pacemakers in Estonia

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on orthopedic appliances, crutches, surgical belts, fracture appliances, artificial body parts, hearing aids, and pacemakers in Estonia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying orthopedic appliances, crutches, surgical belts, fracture appliances, artificial body parts, hearing aids, and pacemakers to Estonia? How important is Estonia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of orthopedic appliances, crutches, surgical belts, fracture appliances, artificial body parts, hearing aids, and pacemakers vary from one country of origin to another in Estonia? On the supply side, Estonia also exports orthopedic appliances, crutches, surgical belts, fracture appliances, artificial body parts, hearing aids, and pacemakers. Which countries receive the most exports from Estonia? 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 orthopedic appliances, crutches, surgical belts, fracture appliances, artificial body parts, hearing aids, and pacemakers in Estonia. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 orthopedic appliances, crutches, surgical belts, fracture appliances, artificial body parts, hearing aids, and pacemakers for those countries serving Estonia via exports, or supplying from Estonia 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