This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives, and import/export managers who are concerned with the market for molding boxes for metal foundry, mold bases, molding patterns, molds for metal excluding ingot, metal carbides, glass, minerals, rubber, or plastics in Europe. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 molding boxes for metal foundry, mold bases, molding patterns, molds for metal excluding ingot, metal carbides, glass, minerals, rubber, or plastics for those countries serving Europe via exports, or supplying from Europe via imports. He does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

"Molding boxes for metal foundry, mold bases, molding patterns, molds for metal excluding ingot, metal carbides, glass, minerals, rubber, or plastics" 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 "molding boxes for metal foundry, mold bases, molding patterns, molds for metal excluding ingot, metal carbides, glass, minerals, rubber, or plastics" is 7491.

The countries in Europe considered in this report include Albania, Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Moldova, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Ukraine.

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

• 1METHODOLOGY
• 1.1OUR APPROACH
• 2EUROPE'S SHARE OF THE WORLD MARKET
• 2.1EXPORTS FROM EUROPE AS SHARE OF THE WORLD EXPORT MARKET
• 2.2IMPORTS IN EUROPE AS SHARE OF THE WORLD IMPORT MARKET
• 3EXPORTS FROM EUROPE
• 3.1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 3.2ALBANIA
• 3.3AUSTRIA
• 3.4BELARUS
• 3.5BELGIUM
• 3.6BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
• 3.7BULGARIA
• 3.8CROATIA
• 3.9CYPRUS
• 3.10DENMARK
• 3.11ESTONIA
• 3.12FINLAND
• 3.13FRANCE
• 3.14GEORGIA
• 3.15GERMANY
• 3.16GREECE
• 3.17HUNGARY
• 3.18ICELAND
• 3.19IRELAND
• 3.20ITALY
• 3.21KAZAKHSTAN
• 3.22LATVIA
• 3.23LITHUANIA
• 3.24LUXEMBOURG
• 3.25MACEDONIA
• 3.26MALTA
• 3.27MOLDOVA
• 3.28NORWAY
• 3.29POLAND
• 3.30PORTUGAL
• 3.31ROMANIA
• 3.32RUSSIA
• 3.33SLOVAKIA
• 3.34SLOVENIA
• 3.35SPAIN
• 3.36SWEDEN
• 3.37SWITZERLAND
• 3.38THE CZECH REPUBLIC
• 3.39THE NETHERLANDS
• 3.40THE UNITED KINGDOM
• 3.41UKRAINE
• 4IMPORTS INTO EUROPE
• 4.1EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
• 4.2ALBANIA
• 4.3AUSTRIA
• 4.4BELARUS
• 4.5BELGIUM
• 4.6BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA
• 4.7BULGARIA
• 4.8CROATIA
• 4.9CYPRUS
• 4.10DENMARK
• 4.11ESTONIA
• 4.12FINLAND
• 4.13FRANCE
• 4.14GEORGIA
• 4.15GERMANY
• 4.16GREECE
• 4.17HUNGARY
• 4.18ICELAND
• 4.19IRELAND
• 4.20ITALY
• 4.21KAZAKHSTAN
• 4.22LATVIA
• 4.23LITHUANIA
• 4.24LUXEMBOURG
• 4.25MACEDONIA
• 4.26MALTA
• 4.27MOLDOVA
• 4.28NORWAY
• 4.29POLAND
• 4.30PORTUGAL
• 4.31ROMANIA
• 4.32RUSSIA
• 4.33SLOVAKIA
• 4.34SLOVENIA
• 4.35SPAIN
• 4.36SWEDEN
• 4.37SWITZERLAND
• 4.38THE CZECH REPUBLIC
• 4.39THE NETHERLANDS
• 4.40THE UNITED KINGDOM
• 4.41UKRAINE
• 5DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTIES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
• 5.1DISCLAIMERS & SAFE HARBOR
• 5.2ICON GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS