» International Trade, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2004

If respondent did NOT make sales to customers outside the United States in the last three years AND has NOT spent eight hours or more investigating the potential for selling products and services outside the United States.

11a. Have you ever considered the possibility of selling to customers outside the U.S.?

Notes: Twenty-five (25) percent of small manufacturers who have neither exported nor investigated the possibility of exporting for at least eight hours in the last three years indicate that they have considered their export potential at some point (Q#11a).