The 2007 Import and Export Market for Steam or Sandblasting Machines and Similar Jet-Projecting Machines in Taiwan

by Philip M. Parker

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines in Taiwan face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines to Taiwan? How important is Taiwan compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines vary from one country of origin to another in Taiwan? On the supply side, Taiwan also exports steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines. Which countries receive the most exports from Taiwan? 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 steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines in Taiwan. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines for those countries serving Taiwan via exports, or supplying from Taiwan 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 Taiwan fits into the world market for imported and exported steam or sandblasting machines and similar jet-projecting machines. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Taiwan 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 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 Taiwan is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Taiwan compared to other major country markets. In this way, all the figures provided in this report are forecasts that can be combined with internal information sources for strategic planning purposes.

48 pages, Paperback

Published November 21, 2006

About the author

Philip M. Parker holds the INSEAD Chair Professorship of Management Science at INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France). He has patented a method to automatically produce a set of similar books from a template which is filled with data from database and internet searches. At Amazon.com, Parker is listed as the author of 85,000 books that his program created and overall he claims to have produced 200,000 different titles. All books are self-published paperbacks and are printed only when an order arrives. Ninety-five percent of the ordered books are sent out electronically.

Parker has produced a series of cross-language dictionaries and thesauri, e.g. Webster's Quechua - English Thesaurus Dictionary. Parker's methods of publishing dictionaries are considered unethical by many professional linguists and contain large amounts of error. Of particular concern is the fact that he fails to either acknowledge or reference his sources and leaves the impression that he has done the linguistic work to amass the data

Parker's programs can also produce rudimentary poetry as well as scripts for animated game shows intended to teach English to non-native speakers and available on YouTube. He plans to extend the programs to produce romance novels.