The analysis deals with factors such as size and ownership, market orientation and market structure, price discrimination, and
destination of exports. Export promotion benefits were granted across the aboard and unlimited in time. Firms large and small,
foreign and national, with and without export experience, were all elligible for the gamut of incentives which included: tax exemptions,
subsidized financing, and free importing of parts and equipment for the production of exports. A vast majority of exporting firms took
advantage of this opportunity, but the evidence about their characteristics and performance raises serious questions concerning the
advisibility of granting, and maintaining over time, such policies without serious regard to the real need for them by firms differing
significantly in size, access to capital and tehcnology, as well as prior export experience.