Selected Free Web Sites
The following
Web sites have been selected by Bowman Librarians as examples of
sites appropriate for college research. Keep in mind, however, that
free Web resources are rarely filtered, often making it difficult
to determine the content's accuracy. Use our guide Evaluating
Web Resources to help you review the authority, currency, and
objectivity or bias of every site you use.
Information for US-based Exporters
Export.gov – U.S. Government
Export Portal
http://export.gov/
THE place for would-be and experienced exporters. Learn the basics,
get help in finding leads and partners, conduct market research.
This database includes full text of Country Commercial Guides,
Market Research Reports and Best Market Reports.
Trade Information Center
(TIC)
http://www.trade.gov/td/tic/
From the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) and International Trade
Administration (ITA). Follow the “Industry Information”
link for financial and economic data about the manufacturing and
services trade. Note that every industry's site is organized differently.
Trade Express
http://tse.export.gov/
The Department of Commerce created this interactive database for
retrieval of export/import data by product and by country, at the
national and state level.
Trade Toolbox
at U.S. Chamber of Commerce
http://www.traderoots.org/fsMain.asp?i=tt
The Trade Toolbox offers well-organized trade statistics, country
and market reports, information about licensing and regulations,
and trade contacts. The site also has an export glossary and metric
conversion calculator.
U.S. Commercial
Service
http://www.buyusa.gov/home/export.html
This site includes information about export assistance programs
and services across the United States, as well as export information
by country.
BISNIS
http://www.bisnis.doc.gov
The Business Information Services for the Newly Independent States
(BISNIS) offers export assistance to former Soviet Union Euro-Asian
states.
Information for World-Wide Exporters
COMTRADE from United
Nations Statistics Division
http://unstats.un.org/unsd/comtrade/
Commodity Trade Statistics Database (COMTRADE) offers limited free
guest access to trade information by country and product at the
level of 4-digit SITC number (for more on SITC see the Tariffs and
Schedules section of our International
Trade Research Guide. Use “Shortcut query” to quickly
retrieve data, or explore the menu for access to the commodity list
and to the glossary.
World Bank
- Doing Business database
http://rru.worldbank.org/doingbusiness/
This database offers quick access to information about the business
climate (for example, registering the business, hiring workers,
getting credit) in each of the featured 145 countries. Part of the
data is shown as indicators reflecting government regulations and
their effect on small- and medium-size firms.
International Chamber of Commerce
(ICC)
http://www.iccwbo.org/
ICC, "the world business organization,” provides information
such as brief world economic surveys, rules and model contracts,
international marketing codes, and news on recent customs regulations,
barriers in international trade or the role of business in a society.
Panorama
of the EU
http://epp.eurostat.ec.europa.eu/portal/page?_pageid=0,1136140&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
This link will lead you to Eurostat's (Statistical Office of the
European Communities) report series including titles like European
Business - Facts and figures, Quarterly Panorama of European business
statistics and Europe in figures - Eurostat yearbook 2005.
For more statistics and reports follow the site’s menu.
APEC Centre for Technology
Exchange and Training of SMEs
http://www.actetsme.org/
The ACTETSME Web site enables entrepreneurs in the Philippines and
in other APEC (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation) member economies
to access information about APEC countries' markets, business matching,
finances, credit and technology.
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