If you study the results for Connecticut companies, it would be considerably lower.

Connecticut companies, like everyone else, must comply or face getting shut out of the world's biggest economy.

A Connecticut company agreed to set one up, he said.

Since last fall, at least two dozen major Connecticut companies have laid off thousands of employees, according to labor department figures.

But, even when businesses cannot visit China directly, state officials take along brochures from Connecticut companies.

And we are now a successful Connecticut company with no intention of ever leaving the state.

One such arrangement, widely viewed as a model, has already been undertaken by a Connecticut company.

"Every day, other states are trying to lure Connecticut companies away," he says.

He learned about another Connecticut company at a Chicago trade show.

Since then, 40 Connecticut companies, or about 10 new companies each year, have begun trade with Africa.