On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics in Sri Lanka face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics to Sri Lanka? How important is Sri Lanka compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics vary from one country of origin to another in Sri Lanka? On the supply side, Sri Lanka also exports women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics. Which countries receive the most exports from Sri Lanka? 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 women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics in Sri Lanka. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact.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 women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics for those countries serving Sri Lanka via exports, or supplying from Sri Lanka 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 Sri Lanka fits into the world market for imported and exported women}s and girls} skirts and divided skirts of woven textile fabrics. The total level of imports and exports on a worldwide basis, and those for Sri Lanka in particular, is estimated using a model which aggregates across over 150 key country mar@Vó33333ÿ¾Úx
