Report: Small businesses see U.S. trade as driver of overall economic growth
Nearly three in four (74%) businesses surveyed said that expanding opportunities between the United States and customers in other countries will increase job growth in the United States.
Small business leaders increasingly view U.S. participation in global trade as the way to improve the overall economy and create American jobs, according to the fifth FedEx Trade Index, a survey of more than 1,000 small business leaders that tracks the impact of international trade among the small business segment of the U.S. economy.
The survey, commissioned by FedEx Corp., Memphis, Tenn., and conducted by Morning Consult, Washington, D.C., finds a substantial majority of U.S. small business leaders (82%) see increasing U.S. trade as beneficial to the overall economy, and three out of four (75%) small business decision makers said selling goods online to international customers is important to growth of their business.