The 2013 Import and Export Market for Men's and Boys' Shirts of Woven Cotton Materials in Lithuania

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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