The 2013 Import and Export Market for Motor Vehicles for Transport of Goods and Materials in Kazakhstan

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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