A total of 132 usable surveys were received from the buying firms and another 157 surveys were returned stating that the survey subject was not applicable because the respondent’s firm did not purchase from non-US suppliers, resulting in an 11.5% response rate from buyers. Of that group, 88 firms have a ‘‘matched’’ supplier returning the near-mirror-image survey, resulting in a 66.7% response rate based on the potential 132 suppliers who could have been paired with the responding buyer firms. The higher response rate from the supplier group may be due to the fact that the request for completion of the questionnaire came from the buying firms, who are their customers.