The 2013 Import and Export Market for Orthopedic or Fracture Appliances and Artificial Joints in Venezuela

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on orthopedic or fracture appliances and artificial joints in Venezuela face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying orthopedic or fracture appliances and artificial joints to Venezuela? How important is Venezuela compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of orthopedic or fracture appliances and artificial joints vary from one country of origin to another in Venezuela? On the supply side, Venezuela also exports orthopedic or fracture appliances and artificial joints. Which countries receive the most exports from Venezuela? 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 or fracture appliances and artificial joints in Venezuela. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 or fracture appliances and artificial joints for those countries serving Venezuela via exports, or supplying from Venezuela 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 Venezuela fits into the world market for imported and exported orthopedic or fracture appliances and artificial joints. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Venezuela in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From there,