I think we’ve identified 11,000 currently exporting, but it’s not an exact science. We don’t look, as a denominator, at all those companies that have the potential to export, and then get the percentage that actually export from that base number. They use the total number of SMEs overall. So 10% might look bad, but that’s out of every single SME, including those that would never, ever export (like the guy that plow out your driveway). If they looked only at those SMEs that could potentially export, the percentage that do export will be much higher.
On March 9th, 2015. See this statement in context.