A recent Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) survey of the Australian exporter community shows that over 86 percent of Australian exporters are either small or medium sized enterprises (SMEs). In fact, research by Austrade and Sensis found that around 13 percent of SMEs export, using international expansion as a high-growth strategy.
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