The 2013 Import and Export Market for Bumpers and Parts for Tractors, Motor Cars, and Other Motor Vehicles in Finland

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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