On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on cement clinkers in Georgia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying cement clinkers to Georgia? How important is Georgia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of cement clinkers vary from one country of origin to another in Georgia? On the supply side, Georgia also exports cement clinkers. Which countries receive the most exports from Georgia? 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 cement clinkers in Georgia. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 cement clinkers for those countries serving Georgia via exports, or supplying from Georgia via imports. He does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.

"Cement clinkers" 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 "cement clinkers" is 66121.

On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on cement clinkers in Georgia face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying cement clinkers to Georgia? How important is Georgia compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of cement clinkers vary from one country of origin to another in Georgia? On the supply side, Georgia also exports cement clinkers. Which countries receive the most exports from Georgia? 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 cement clinkers in Georgia. 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 cement clinkers for those countries serving Georgia via exports, or supplying from Georgia via imports. He 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 Georgia fits into the world market for imported and exported cement clinkers. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Georgia 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 Georgia is likely to receive this year. From these figures, rankings are calculated to allow managers to prioritize Georgia 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.

After the worldwide summary in Chapter 2 of both imports and exports of cement clinkers, Chapter 3 goes into detail on imports, but for each major country of origin serving Georgia. A "major" market is defined as a country where Georgia represents a substantially large share of either imports or exports. For each major country exporting to Georgia, one can thus observe how important Georgia is to that exporting country compared to other countries of the world. Chapter 4 does the same, but for exports of cement clinkers originating from Georgia, for each major country of destination. In doing so, one can discover the share that Georgia has in each major market; this share value is often used as a measure of competitiveness for Georgia. In all cases, the total dollar volume and percentage share values by major trading partner are provided. Combined, Chapters 3 and 4 present the total picture for imports and exports of cement clinkers to and from Georgia and all other major countries in the world. "Cement clinkers" 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 "cement clinkers" is 66121.

Important Caveat: The figures should be seen as market estimates, as opposed to historical records, as these are forecasted for the current year of trade. More importantly, in light of the fact that unforeseeable factors might interrupt markets in achieving their reported levels, the figures should be seen as estimates of potential. For example, "mad cow" disease, foot-and-mouth disease, trade embargoes, military conflicts, acts of terrorism, and other events will certainly affect the actual trade flows recorded for a variety of industry or product categories. In such cases, the difference between the numbers given in this report and the numbers actually observed might be interpreted as the "net loss" or "net gain" due to these exogenous events affecting regular trade flows that would have occurred had these events not have taken place.

• 1INTRODUCTION AND METHODOLOGY
• 2GEORGIA AND THE WORLD MARKET
• 2.1IMPORTS IN GEORGIA IN 2021
• 2.2EXPORTS FROM GEORGIA IN 2021
• 3IMPORTS IN GEORGIA
• 3.1THE MIDDLE EAST
• 3.1.1ARMENIA
• 3.1.2TURKEY
• 4EXPORTS FROM GEORGIA
• 4.1THE MIDDLE EAST
• 4.1.1AZERBAIJAN
• 5DISCLAIMERS, WARRANTIES, AND USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS
• 5.1DISCLAIMERS & SAFE HARBOR
• 5.2ICON GROUP INTERNATIONAL, INC. USER AGREEMENT PROVISIONS