The 2013 Import and Export Market for Painted, Varnished, or Plastic-Coated Iron and Non-Alloy Steel Flat-Rolled Products of Less Than 600 mm Wide in Japan

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on painted, varnished, or plastic-coated iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products of less than 600 mm wide in Japan face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying painted, varnished, or plastic-coated iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products of less than 600 mm wide to Japan? How important is Japan compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of painted, varnished, or plastic-coated iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products of less than 600 mm wide vary from one country of origin to another in Japan? On the supply side, Japan also exports painted, varnished, or plastic-coated iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products of less than 600 mm wide. Which countries receive the most exports from Japan? 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 painted, varnished, or plastic-coated iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products of less than 600 mm wide in Japan. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 painted, varnished, or plastic-coated iron and non-alloy steel flat-rolled products of less than 600 mm wide for those countries serving Japan via exports, or supplying from Japan 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 Japan fits into the world market for imported and exported painted,