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This paper assesses whether exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. The author specifically examines if exporting to less developed markets generates less productivity growth than exporting to advanced countries. Using plant-level data from Colombia, she finds that exporting to advanced countries generates the highest productivity premium. Moreover, she holds that the ability to benefit from exporting in general and exporting to advanced markets in particular increases monotonically as one moves along the conditional productivity distribution.