The respondent firms were mainly from the food and beverage sector (20.1 percent), followed by textile (16.7 percent), automotive (12.5 percent), chemistry-plastics (12.5 percent), and iron-steel (0.08 percent) industries. The main customers of the surveyed firms were "other firms" (52.1 percent). The number of employees employed by the firms was between 500 and 999 (42.1 percent) in the main. More than half of the respondents were small and middle-scale firms and did not have a partnership with foreign firms (54.2 percent). Annual gross incomes were generally less than $200 million (85.7).