The 2013 Import and Export Market for Central Heating Boilers Excluding Steam Power-Generating Boilers in Switzerland

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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