Amazon.com: The 2003 Import and Export Market for Fish and Marine Mammal Fats and Oils in Papua New Guinea: Books

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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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