The 2013 Import and Export Market for Pocket Watches and Other Watches with Cases Made of Precious Metal or Clad with Precious Metal Excluding Wristwatches in Germany

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on pocket watches and other watches with cases made of precious metal or clad with precious metal excluding wristwatches in Germany face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying pocket watches and other watches with cases made of precious metal or clad with precious metal excluding wristwatches to Germany? How important is Germany compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of pocket watches and other watches with cases made of precious metal or clad with precious metal excluding wristwatches vary from one country of origin to another in Germany? On the supply side, Germany also exports pocket watches and other watches with cases made of precious metal or clad with precious metal excluding wristwatches. Which countries receive the most exports from Germany? 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 pocket watches and other watches with cases made of precious metal or clad with precious metal excluding wristwatches in Germany. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 pocket watches and other watches with cases made of precious metal or clad with precious metal excluding wristwatches for those countries serving Germany via exports, or supplying from Germany 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