The 2013 Import and Export Market for Bearing Housings with Ball or Roller Bearings in Slovakia

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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