This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives, and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment in the Middle East. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. Professor Philip M. Parker, the Chair Professor of Management Science at INSEAD, has developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment for those countries serving the Middle East via exports, or supplying from the Middle East via imports. He does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

"Seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment" as a category is defined in this report following the definition given by the United Nations Statistics Division Classification Registry using the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3 (SITC, Rev. 3). The SITC code that defines "seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment" is 82115.

The countries in the Middle East considered in this report include Armenia, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman, Pakistan, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey.

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the market in the Middle East face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment to the Middle East? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment vary from one country to another in the Middle East? Do exporters serving the market in the Middle East have similar market shares across the importing countries? On the supply side, the Middle East also sells to the international market of seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment. Which countries in the Middle East supply the most exports of seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment? Which countries are buying their exports? What is the value of these exports and which countries are the largest buyers?

In what follows, Chapter 2 begins by summarizing where the Middle East fits into the world market for imported and exported seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for the Middle East in particular, is based on 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 market. This market is served from a number of competitive countries of origin. Based on both demand- and supply-side dynamics, market shares by country of origin are then calculated across each country market destination. These shares lead to a volume of import and export values for each country and are aggregated to regional and world totals. In doing so, we are able to obtain maximum likelihood estimates of both the value of each market and the share that countries in the Middle East are likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize markets within the Middle East. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.

After the worldwide summary in Chapter 2 of both imports and exports for the Middle East, Chapter 3 details the exports of seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment, but for each individual country in the Middle East. Chapter 4 does the same, but for imports of seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment for all countries in the Middle East. In all cases, the total dollar volume and percentage share values by major trading partner are provided. Combined, Chapters 3 and 4 present the complete picture for imports and exports of seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment to and from the Middle East and all other major countries in the world. Of the 150 countries considered, if a country is not reported here it is therefore estimated to have only a negligible level of trade in seat that convert into beds excluding garden seats and camping equipment (i.e. their market shares are close or equal to zero percent).

• 1METHODOLOGY
• 1.1OUR APPROACH
• 2THE MIDDLE EAST'S SHARE OF THE WORLD MARKET
• 2.1EXPORTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST AS SHARE OF THE WORLD EXPORT MARKET
• 2.2IMPORTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST AS SHARE OF THE WORLD IMPORT MARKET
• 3EXPORTS FROM THE MIDDLE EAST
• 3.1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 3.2AZERBAIJAN
• 3.3ISRAEL
• 3.4LEBANON
• 3.5SAUDI ARABIA
• 3.6THE UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
• 3.7TURKEY
• 4IMPORTS INTO THE MIDDLE EAST
• 4.1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 4.2ARMENIA
• 4.3AZERBAIJAN
• 4.4BAHRAIN
• 4.5ISRAEL
• 4.6KUWAIT
• 4.7LEBANON
• 4.8OMAN
• 4.9PAKISTAN
• 4.10QATAR
• 4.11TURKEY
• 5DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTIES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
• 5.1DISCLAIMERS & SAFE HARBOR
• 5.2ICON GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS