» International Trade, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2004

If respondent did NOT make sales to customers outside the United States in the last three years.

11. In the last three years, have you or has someone on your behalf, spent eight hours or more investigating the potential for selling your products or services outside the U.S.?

Notes: Eight percent of small manufacturers not currently exporting investigated export possibilities for the equivalent of one day or more at some point in the last three years (Q#11).