INTRODUCTION
This chapter illustrates the extent and importance of export activity by Australian manufacturing businesses. Table 4.1 presents estimates, for the period from 2001-02 to 2005-06, of the value of exports by Australian manufacturing businesses of goods that they produced. For 2005-06, these are dissected in Table 4.2 by employment size. Table 4.3 categorises businesses by their involvement in exporting, and presents estimates of the contribution of each category to industry aggregates. For information about how these data have been derived, please see Explanatory Notes paragraphs 36 to 40. Even though, as explained there, the exports data presented in these tables are not directly comparable with the ABS's overseas trade series, the commentary below also uses the trade series to illustrate some characteristics of Australian manufacturing's export performance.
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