The 2016 Import and Export Market for Paper Waste and Scrap from Paperboard Made Mainly of Mechanical Pulp Including Newspapers and Journals in the United States

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on paper waste and scrap from paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp including newspapers and journals in the United States face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying paper waste and scrap from paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp including newspapers and journals to the United States? How important is the United States compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of paper waste and scrap from paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp including newspapers and journals vary from one country of origin to another in the United States? On the supply side, the United States also exports paper waste and scrap from paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp including newspapers and journals. Which countries receive the most exports from the United States? 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 paper waste and scrap from paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp including newspapers and journals in the United States. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 paper waste and scrap from paperboard made mainly of mechanical pulp including newspapers and journals for those countries serving the United States via exports, or supplying from the United States 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