The 2013 Import and Export Market for Footwear with Protective Metal Toe-Caps Excluding Sports Footwear in Germany

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear in Germany face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear to Germany? How important is Germany compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear vary from one country of origin to another in Germany? On the supply side, Germany also exports footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear. 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 footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear 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 where Germany fits into the world market for imported and exported footwear with protective metal toe-caps excluding sports footwear. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Germany in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and