The 2011 Import and Export Market for Plastic Fittings for Tubes, Pipes, and Hoses Including Joints, Elbows, and Flanges in Romania

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges in Romania face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges to Romania? How important is Romania compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges vary from one country of origin to another in Romania? On the supply side, Romania also exports plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges. 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 plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges 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 plastic fittings for tubes, pipes, and hoses including joints, elbows, and flanges. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis,