| HTML clipboard | | | | shares by country of origin are then calculated across |
| Report on 2009 Import and Export Market for | | | | each country market destination. These shares lead |
| Natural Honey in India | | | | to a volume of import and export values for each |
| On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners | | | | country and are aggregated to regional and world |
| focusing on natural honey in India face a number of | | | | totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum |
| questions. Which countries are supplying natural | | | | likelihood estimates of both the value of each market |
| honey to India? How important is India compared to | | | | and the share that India is likely to receive this year. |
| others in terms of the entire global and regional | | | | From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow |
| market? How much do the imports of natural honey | | | | managers to prioritize India compared to other major |
| vary from one country of origin to another in India? | | | | country markets. In this way, all the figures provided |
| On the supply side, India also exports natural honey. | | | | in this report are forecasts that can be combined |
| Which countries receive the most exports from | | | | with internal information sources for strategic planning |
| India? How are these exports concentrated across | | | | purposes. |
| buyers? What is the value of these exports and | | | | After the worldwide summary in Chapter 2 of both |
| which countries are the largest buyers? ( ) | | | | imports and exports of natural honey, Chapter 3 |
| This report was created for strategic planners, | | | | goes into detail on imports, but for each major |
| international marketing executives and import/export | | | | country of origin serving India. A “major” |
| managers who are concerned with the market for | | | | market is defined as a country where India |
| natural honey in India. With the globalization of this | | | | represents a substantially large share of either |
| market, managers can no longer be contented with a | | | | imports or exports. For each major country exporting |
| local view. Nor can managers be contented with | | | | to India, one can thus observe how important India is |
| out-of-date statistics which appear several years | | | | to that exporting country compared to other |
| after the fact. I have developed a methodology, | | | | countries of the world. Chapter 4 does the same, but |
| based on macroeconomic and trade models, to | | | | for exports of natural honey originating from India, |
| estimate the market for natural honey for those | | | | for each major country of destination. In doing so, |
| countries serving India via exports, or supplying from | | | | one can discover the share that India has in each |
| India via imports. It does so for the current year | | | | major market; this share value is often used as a |
| based on a variety of key historical indicators and | | | | measure of competitiveness for India. In all cases, |
| econometric models. | | | | the total dollar volume and percentage share values |
| In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing | | | | by major trading partner are provided. Combined, |
| where India fits into the world market for imported | | | | Chapters 3 and 4 present a the total picture for |
| and exported natural honey. The total level of | | | | imports and exports of natural honey to and from |
| imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those | | | | India to and from all other major countries in the |
| for India in particular, is estimated using a model | | | | world. "Natural Honey" as a category is defined in this |
| which aggregates across over 150 key country | | | | report following the definition given by the United |
| markets and projects these to the current year. | | | | Nations Statistics Division Classification Registry using |
| From there, each country represents a percent of | | | | the Standard International Trade Classification, |
| the world market. This market is served from a | | | | Revision 3 (SITC, Rev. 3). The SITC code that |
| number of competitive countries of origin. Based on | | | | defined "natural honey" is 0616 . |
| both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market | | | | |