The 2013 Import and Export Market for Builders' Plastic Wares in Bosnia and Herzegovina

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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