This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives, and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets in Latin America. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets for those countries serving Latin America via exports, or supplying from Latin America via imports. He does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

"Unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets" 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 "unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets" is 69562.

The countries in Latin America considered in this report include Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Suriname, and Uruguay.

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners approaching the market in Latin America face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets to Latin America? What is the dollar value of these imports? How much do the imports of unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets vary from one country to another in Latin America? Do exporters serving the market in Latin America have similar market shares across the importing countries? On the supply side, Latin America also sells to the international market of unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets. Which countries in Latin America supply the most exports of unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets? 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 Latin America fits into the world market for imported and exported unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Latin America 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 Latin America are likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize markets within Latin America. 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 Latin America, Chapter 3 details the exports of unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets, but for each individual country in Latin America. Chapter 4 does the same, but for imports of unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets for all countries in Latin America. 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 unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets to and from Latin America 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 unmounted tool plates, sticks, and tips of sintered metal carbides or cermets (i.e. their market shares are close or equal to zero percent).

• 1METHODOLOGY
• 1.1OUR APPROACH
• 2LATIN AMERICA'S SHARE OF THE WORLD MARKET
• 2.1EXPORTS FROM LATIN AMERICA AS SHARE OF THE WORLD EXPORT MARKET
• 2.2IMPORTS IN LATIN AMERICA AS SHARE OF THE WORLD IMPORT MARKET
• 3EXPORTS FROM LATIN AMERICA
• 3.1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 3.2ARGENTINA
• 3.3BRAZIL
• 3.4CHILE
• 3.5ECUADOR
• 3.6MEXICO
• 3.7PARAGUAY
• 4IMPORTS INTO LATIN AMERICA
• 4.1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 4.2ARGENTINA
• 4.3BOLIVIA
• 4.4BRAZIL
• 4.5CHILE
• 4.6COLOMBIA
• 4.7ECUADOR
• 4.8GUATEMALA
• 4.9MEXICO
• 4.10PANAMA
• 4.11PARAGUAY
• 4.12PERU
• 4.13SURINAME
• 4.14URUGUAY
• 5DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTIES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
• 5.1DISCLAIMERS & SAFE HARBOR
• 5.2ICON GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS