The 2009 Import and Export Market for Textile Bed Linens Excluding Cotton Bed Linens in Romania

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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