Determination of Concentration Level and Market Analysis of Iran Particle Board Imports

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 Department of Natural Resources, Islamic Azad University,Bojnourd Branch,Bojnourd,Iran

2 Technical and vocational Organization

3 university of tehran

Abstract

The importance of market concentration for government decisions and policies to regulate the market is inevitable. In this study, market indexes were calculated to identify the market status of particleboard imports and to help industry practitioners to identify the particleboard market and identify production potential. In this study, the market structure was measured using concentration ratios, Herfindahl-Hirschman, Hall Tideman, Comprehensive Industrial Concentration, and Hannah-Kay. The market structure was measured for the period 2010-2019. According to the calculations, the average concentration ratio of the four major exporting countries to Iran for the ten-year period studied was 97.81% of the total import of particle board to the country. They indicates a market with a multilateral monopoly. Other indicators include the Herfindahl-Hirschman index at 5,561, the Hall Tideman index at 0.54, the Comprehensive Industrial Concentration Index at 0.79, and the Hall Tideman Index at α value of 0.6 to 3.12, α value was equal to 1.5, to 2.27 and α value was equal to 2.5 to 2.02. The results have shown that the market situation on the import of paticle board was the multilateral monopoly. The status of this monopoly has fluctuated and changed over the past ten years due to the political and economic decisions of governments and the change in domestic production of particleboard. In this market situation, exporting countries can argue over price and export rates. Turkey, United Arab Emirates, Thailand, Italy and Russia has been Iran's most important trading partner in the particleboard import market during the period under review, with the most imports being indexed to these countries, indicating a multilateral monopoly.

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Iranian Journal of Wood and Paper Industries
Volume 11, Issue 4
March 2021
Pages 611-626

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