This report was created for strategic planners, international marketing executives and export managers whose primary concern is the world market for interchangeable tools for hand tools or for machine-tools including dies for extruding metal. 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 Nor can managers be contented with out-of-date statistics that appear several years after the fact.

I have developed a methodology, based on macroeconomic and trade models, to estimate the market for interchangeable tools for hand tools or for machine-tools including dies for extruding metal for those firms serving the world via exports and foreign direct investment. It does so for the current year based on a variety of key historical indicators and econometric models.