The 2013 Import and Export Market for Plastic Sacks, Bags, and Cones in El Salvador

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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