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# Icommerce Cruises
- URL: https://www.protein.xyz/icommerce-cruises/
- Published: 1998-12-18T07:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2016-05-29T12:17:42.000Z
- Description: Online trade between US businesses will mushroom to US$1.3 trillion by 2003 from $48 billion in 1998, according to a new report…
- Author: Protein
- Tags: SEEDS, #protein, #Import 2024-06-11 13:21

Online trade between US businesses will mushroom to US$1.3 trillion by 2003 from $48 billion in 1998, according to a new report from Forrester Research.   
  
The market researcher said online business trade will work its way into all US business supply chains over the next five years, and will represent 9 percent of total US business sales by 2003\. The eye-popping estimate is a revision of a mid-1997 Forrester report that forecast a $327 billion “icommerce” market in 2002\. “The growth of Internet- based business trade has outstripped that projection,” read a statement from Forrester.  
  
Forrester defines “icommerce” as any inter-business trade of goods or services in which the final order is placed over the Internet.  
  
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