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Note 10 - Business and Credit Concentrations, Major Customers and Geographic Information | 12 Months Ended
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Oct. 31, 2017
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( 10 ) | Business and Credit Concentrations, Major Customers and Geographic Information
The Company provides credit, in the normal course of business, to various commercial enterprises, governmental entities and not -for-profit organizations. Concentration of credit risk with respect to trade receivables is limited due to the Company’s large number of customers. The Company also manages exposure to credit risk through credit approvals, credit limits and monitoring procedures. Management believes that credit risks as of October 31, 2017 and 2016 have been adequately provided for in the consolidated financial statements. For the year ended October 31, 2017, 16.4%, or approximately $10.5 million of consolidated net sales were attributable to one customer. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales for the year ended October 31, 2017. As of October 31, 2017, the same customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company totaling 8.9% of total consolidated shareholders ’ equity. No other customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company in excess of 5% of total consolidated shareholders’ equity. For the year ended October 31, 2016, 15.1%, or approximately $9.7 million of consolidated net sales were attributable to one customer. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales for the year ended October 31, 2016. As of October 31, 2016, the same customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company totaling 8.6% of total consolidated shareholders ’ equity. No other customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company in excess of 5% of total consolidated shareholders’ equity. For the year ended October 31, 2015, 13.6% and 10.8%, or approximately $10.0 million and $8.0 million, of consolidated net sales were attributable to two customers. No other customer accounted for more than 10% of consolidated net sales for the year ended October 31, 2015. As of October 31, 2015, no single customer had an outstanding balance payable to the Company in excess of 5% of total consolidated shareholders ’ equity. For the years ended October 31, 201 7, 2016 and 2015, approximately 80%, 80% and 78%, respectively, of net sales were from customers in the United States, while approximately 20%, 20% and 22%, respectively, were from customers outside of the United States. Net sales attributable to the United States and all other countries in total for the years ended October 31, 201 7, 2016 and 2015 were as follows:
|  | Years ended October 31, |
|  | 2017 |  |  | 2016 |  |  | 2015 |
United States |  | $ | 51,558,474 |  |  | $ | 51,379,528 |  |  | $ | 57,402,020 |
Outside the United States |  |  | 12,534,374 |  |  |  | 13,236,473 |  |  |  | 16,166,718 |
Total net sales |  | $ | 64,092,848 |  |  | $ | 64,616,001 |  |  | $ | 73,568,738 |
No individual country outside of the United States accounted for more than 10% of total net sales in fiscal years 201 7, 2016 or 2015. The Company has a single reportable segment for purposes of segment reporting.

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