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Table 2.5 Middle East furniture imports HS code Product Middle East imports 2005 Value ($‘000) Share (%) Annual growth 2001-05 (%) Major importers 940330 Office furniture, wooden 156,685 11 3 Saudi, UAE 940340 Kitchen furniture, wooden 99,551 6 23 Saudi, Turkey, UAE 940350 Bedroom furniture, wooden 298,924 16 17 Saudi, UAE, Kuwait 940360 Furniture, wooden, nes 472,568 37 17 UAE, Israel, Saudi 940380 Furniture of cane, osier, bamboo 94,438 7 27 UAE, Israel, Saudi 940390 Furniture parts nes 120,134 8 20 UAE, Turkey, Saudi 940410 Mattress supports 7,661 0 25 Qatar, Saudi, Cyprus 940161 Seats with wooden frames, upholstered 155,459 11 20 UAE, Saudi, Turkey 940169 Seats with wooden frames 71,916 4 45 Saudi, UAE, Turkey Source: ITC database Case Story 3: Un-upholstered seats with wooden frame markets Un-upholstered seats with a wooden frame are classified as a separate category in trade statistics (HS 940169) and the total world import figure for this product category is estimated to be as high as US$2.87 billion. The world demand for these seats is also increasing; world imports grew by 12% per year during 2001- 05 in value terms. Only a handful of countries classify this product category in more detail, so we cannot speak for all importing markets, but we can make the general deduction that the imported seats are mainly for household chairs and not for public seating such as church pews. The United States is the world’s key import market for this component, buying 37% of world imports in 2005. Germany, United Kingdom, France and South Korea are also important markets. South Korea, Spain, South Africa and Saudi Arabia are rapidly growing markets for this component whilst Japan is showing a slight decline. The Swiss market is on the upper end in terms of average price averaging CIF US$6,555 per ton, almost double the amount per ton being paid by other importing countries in Europe and Japan. Though Italy is an important exporter of wooden framed seats, with 10% share of world exports, the lion’s share of supply comes from Asia – China, Vietnam, Malaysia and Thailand – together making up 49% share of world exports in 2004. 48 International Trade Centre
Pakistan does not export this furniture component, but there is no reason why it would not have the capacity to do so. The large and growing market should be an important incentive to explore possibilities. Clearly many niches can be carved out of the market for a component such as the one described here. Trade data on its own will not provide enough detail, more qualitative information would need to be collected to understand the markets better. For starters, much more information is required on what the end product will be once the component is fitted. Market surveys, links to market information web sites and links to webs sites of furniture manufacturers would be an important complement to the trade statistics described above. ITC’s Product Map serves this purpose. International Trade Centre 49
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Acknowledgements The report was pre
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Abbreviations AFTA AHEC AKTRIN APFE
Page 7 and 8: Table of contents Acknowledgements
Page 9 and 10: Box 3.1 Multilateral discipline of
Page 11 and 12: Executive summary This study sets t
Page 13 and 14: the extent possible maintain or imp
Page 15 and 16: 1 Background and objectives 1.1 EC
Page 17 and 18: 2 Furniture sector in Pakistan 2.1
Page 19 and 20: On the buyer’s side, there are gl
Page 21 and 22: According to the websites of import
Page 23 and 24: Global demand for furniture in main
Page 25 and 26: suppliers, both domestic and other
Page 27 and 28: Table 2.3 Pakistani furniture expor
Page 29 and 30: Figure 2.4 Distribution structure f
Page 31 and 32: freight rates have increased and do
Page 33 and 34: Price The prices of local machinery
Page 35 and 36: Indonesia has also announced a ban
Page 37 and 38: industry itself should support effo
Page 39 and 40: various counterparts, the supplier
Page 41 and 42: Box 2.7 UK Timber Trade Federation
Page 43 and 44: Figure 2.5 Simplified example on ch
Page 45 and 46: At least 70% of the wood used in ma
Page 47 and 48: Scope of joint ventures There exist
Page 49 and 50: • With FAO’s Forest Products an
Page 51 and 52: The contact information of many of
Page 53 and 54: Box 2.10 USAID initiative in the fu
Page 55 and 56: Opportunities Major opportunities m
Page 57: pressure on the price. There appear
Page 61 and 62: 3.1.3 Functional scope The function
Page 63 and 64: Current status of efforts to libera
Page 65 and 66: 3.2.2 Information flow-upwards, i.e
Page 67 and 68: Commission (EC/EU) has established
Page 69 and 70: Figure 3.3 Relevant intensity of WT
Page 71 and 72: Box 3.2 Regional Trade Agreements (
Page 73 and 74: Trade Related Aspects of Intellectu
Page 75 and 76: Agreement on the application of san
Page 77 and 78: country or materially retards the e
Page 79 and 80: Relevance of the furniture sector T
Page 81 and 82: 3.4.2 Other countries’ access to
Page 83 and 84: Table 3.2 Top 10 buyers of the Paki
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Page 87 and 88: • Material from China is being us
Page 89 and 90: 4.2 Obstacles and shortcomings - im
Page 91 and 92: Raw material recovery Raw material
Page 93 and 94: • Consistent policy for supportin
Page 95 and 96: A short-term but maybe a costly mea
Page 97 and 98: 5 Export services in Pakistan 5.1 E
Page 99 and 100: 5.1.3 Federation of Pakistan Chambe
Page 101 and 102: • Pakistan International Freight
Page 103 and 104: The lessons learnt here could be re
Page 105 and 106: 6 Conclusion and recommendations 6.
Page 107 and 108: 6.2 Critical success factors • A
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6.4 Global value chains 6.4.1 Poten
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Benefits All timber tends to be air
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• Optimise cutting; • Calculati
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6.6.5 If we had US$100,000: A techn
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• To modernise such a laboratory,
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Annexes Annex A — Sources of info
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• Federmobili information on the
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• National Home Furnishings Assoc
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