On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on women's and girls' blouses, shirts, and shirt-blouses of knitted or crocheted textile fabrics in Ireland face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying women's and girls' blouses, shirts, and shirt-blouses of knitted or crocheted textile fabrics to Ireland? How important is Ireland compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of women's and girls' blouses, shirts, and shirt-blouses of knitted or crocheted textile fabrics vary from one country of origin to another in Ireland? On the supply side, Ireland also exports women's and girls' blouses, shirts, and shirt-blouses of knitted or crocheted textile fabrics. Which countries receive the most exports from Ireland? 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 women's and girls' blouses, shirts, and shirt-blouses of knitted or crocheted textile fabrics in Ireland. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 women's and girls' blouses, shirts, and shirt-blouses of knitted or crocheted textile fabrics for those countries serving Ireland via exports, or supplying from Ireland 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 Ireland fits into the world market for imported and exported women's and
