The U.S. Commerce Department will study business-to-business electronic commerce activity through a national survey, Commerce Secretary William M. Daley said.
"Because business-to-business e-commerce is far larger than retail sales, for the first time, we will be collecting numbers on this also," he said. "In the next few months, we will survey tens of thousands of manufacturers, service organizations, wholesalers and retailers. We will ask how much did they acquire and sell over the Internet."