Manufacturing Traders Along California’s Central Coast 2019

Manufacturing Traders Along California’s Central Coast 2019

Engaging in international trade requires a business to identify new markets, meet new standards, participate in different regulatory frameworks and connect to relevant professional networks. In this respect, businesses need to innovate to extend their reach to international markets. It is with this intuition that we explored the question, are manufacturers who trade internationally qualitatively different from non-trade manufacturers? To answer this question, we examined the age, employment and sales patterns of manufacturing establishments engaging in international trade along the south-central coast of California and compared them to non-trade manufacturing establishments in the region.