engaged in international markets, drawing on micro-data from Belgium, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, Sweden, the United …. Such barriers do not affect all firms equally. Restrictive services trade regulations disproportionately discourage SMEs … export destination country and for firms that trade bundles of services and manufacturing products, than it is for pure …

This note uses comparable representative data for manufacturing firms from five European countries (Germany, France …, Italy, Spain, and the United Kingdom) to investigate the links between firm age and the participation of the firms in export …, the share of exports in total sales, the number of countries exported to, and the participation in import. The big picture …