How do you estimate demand for industrial equipment in emerging markets?

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Working on a project for a client selling heavy machinery into Southeast Asia and struggling to find reliable data. Anyone dealt with this before?

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Marcus Johnson · Answer

Been there — official stats in SEA are notoriously patchy. I'd triangulate between import/export data from UN Comtrade, infrastructure spending announcements (ADB and World Bank project pipelines are gold), and direct interviews with local distributors who'll tell you what's actually moving. Sometimes 10 solid dealer conversations beat any secondary dataset you'll find.

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