On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather in China face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather to China? How important is China compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather vary from one country of origin to another in China? On the supply side, China also exports patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather. Which countries receive the most exports from China? 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 patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather in China. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather for those countries serving China via exports, or supplying from China 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 China fits into the world market for imported and exported patent leather, patent laminated leather, and metallic leather. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for China in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country markets and projects these to the current year. From
