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On the demand side, exporters and strategic planners focusing on raw bovine and equine hides excluding calf hides in South Africa face a number of questions. Which countries are supplying raw bovine and equine hides excluding calf hides to South Africa? How important is South Africa compared to others in terms of the entire global and regional market? How much do the imports of raw bovine and equine hides excluding calf hides vary from one country of origin to another in South Africa? On the supply side, South Africa also exports raw bovine and equine hides excluding calf hides. Which countries receive the most exports from South Africa? 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 raw bovine and equine hides excluding calf hides in South Africa. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics which appear several years after the fact. Icon Group has developed a proprietary methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for raw bovine and equine hides excluding calf hides for those countries serving South Africa via exports, or supplying from South Africa via imports. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.