International Trade
» International Trade, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2004
If respondent has sold to customers outside the United States, but NOT in the last three years.
2a. Why did you stop making those sales? Was it because:?
| Response | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The market dried up | 23 | ||
| 2 | Insufficiently profitable | 21 | ||
| 3 | Diverted attention from domestic sales | 1 | ||
| 4 | The hassles became too great | 6 | ||
| 5 | A bad experience | 4 | ||
| 6 | Negligible foreign sales in the first place | 25 | ||
| 7 | Other | 13 | ||
| 8 | DK/Refuse | 8 | ||
| Total (%) | 101 | |||
| N | 51 | |||
Notes: Twenty-five (25) percent of small manufacturers who stopped selling outside the United States attribute their decision to negligible foreign sales in the first place (Q#2a).
