Criteria for assessing the prospects of a country market:
1. Market capacity (the volume of imports into the country); 2. The comparative competitive advantage (comparative share of imports); 3. The dynamics of market capacity.
Table 1
Import-export matrix for spinning machines in 2002, EUR million
Import | Export | The ranking list of importing countries | The ranking list of exporters in each of the importing countries | 1 | USA | Germany | Switzerland | Great Britain | France | Italy | | 175,353 | 75,195 | 38,775 | 25,747 | 14,321 | 9,250 | 2 | South Korea | Japan | Germany | Great Britain | France | Switzerland | | 170,230 | 137,091 | 17,849 | 5,325 | 3,203 | 2,730 | 3 | Indonesia | Japan | Germany | Great Britain | France | Switzerland | | 82,336 | 51,167 | 12,369 | 8,124 | 7,780 | 2,110 | 4 | Algeria | France | Germany | Switzerland | USA | - | | 74,395 | 69,124 | 4,591 | 0,493 | 0,187 | | 5 | Egypt | Great Britain | Germany | France | Japan | USA | | 73,335 | 20,375 | 15,878 | 13,924 | 13,675 | 4,520 | 6 | Turkey | Switzerland | France | Germany | Italy | Great Britain | | 63,560 | 23,375 | 16,068 | 10,844 | 6,756 | 2,260 | 7 | Mexico | Germany | Italy | USA | Japan | Great Britain | | 59,627 | 21,523 | 11,026 | 9,606 | 6,222 | 4,150 | 8 | Taiwan | Japan | Germany | Switzerland | USA | Great Britain | | 56,719 | 24,499 | 12,566 | 6,365 | 5,243 | 3,230 |
Table 2
Import-export matrix for spinning machines in 2008, EUR million
Import | Export | The ranking list of importing countries | The ranking list of exporters in each of the importing countries | 1 | USA | Germany | Switzerland | Great Britain | France | Japan | | 478,819 | 274,727 | 75,561 | 37,463 | 36,891 | 26,515 | 2 | Taiwan | Japan | Germany | Italy | Switzerland | France | | 233,188 | 111,694 | 58,910 | 31,462 | 13,567 |