International Business & Trade: useful Resources

Databases: available via library website, enter barcode # for off-campus access

Encyclopedias, Handbooks, and Manuals: located in the first floor reference section

• A Short Course In International Trade Documentation : The Documents Of Exporting, Importing, Transportation And Banking (50 Country Document Requirements). ReadyRef HF1379 .H56 2002
• Dictionary Of International Trade ReadyRef HF1373 .H55 2000
• Directory of international direct and e-marketing: a country-by-country sourcebook of providers, legislation and data ReadyRef HF5415.126 .H36 2003
• Doing Business in Emerging Europe ReadyRef HF1532.7 .Z368 2003
  
• Doing Business Internationally: The Guide to Cross-Cultural Success ReadyRef HD31 .B7235 2003 and circulating copy
• Doing Business and Investing in the United Kingdom: a handbook ReadyRef KD 665 .B86 D66 2007
• Export-Import Theory, Practices, And Procedures ReadyRef HF1414.4 .S49 2000
• Global Shift: Mapping the Changing Contours of the World Economy ReadyRef HD2321 .D53 2007
• Legal Systems of the World: A Political Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia ReadyRef K 48 .L44 2002 v. 1-4
• World economy : historical statistics ReadyRef HF1359 .M333 2003

Additional Print Sources

• Culture's consequences. international differences in work related values GN502 .H63 1984
• In the know in China : an indispensable cross-cultural guide to working and living abroad DS727 .P47 2001
  Part of a series that includes Japan, Germany, the USA, and Mexico and Central America. Each book comes with a CD-ROM for language instruction in Mandarin Chinese, German, English, or Spanish.
• Managing cultural differences HD69.I7 H355
• Working across cultures HM1211 .H66 2004
  Living and working abroad, with an extensive bibliography.

Unless indicated otherwise, all of the above print resources are located at the O'Toole Library, Jersey City Campus.

Selected Internet Resources

• Asian Development (ADO) An annual and in depth report on developing member countries of the Asian Development Bank.
• Business Daily Africa BDAfrica carries a selection of stories from the newspaper Business Daily, published out of Nairobi by the Nation Media Group.
• Business Ethics links to articles and publications, case studies, corporate codes of ethics, professional organizations and associations, and resources and centers, compiled by Sharon Stoerger.
• China Statistical Data Monthly statistics from the National Bureau of Statistics, China
• China Vitae Searchable biographies of over 2500 current Chinese political, business, and academic leaders. You can search by name, institution, keyword or place.
• CIA World Fact Book Historical, political and economic information on countries of the world.
• Company Extensions Definitions of terms used in the US and abroad for incorporation and limited liability: find out what Ltd, PLC, AmB, GmbH, SA mean.
• Competitive Alternatives  KPMG's guide for comparing business locations in North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, valuable information for any company locating international business operations.
• Country Background Notes Country Backgound Notes are prepared annually by U.S. embassies. At this site at the State Department you will find the current guide and links to previous guides. Not all guides are updated each year, so you may need to download the country information you need from their archive.
• Customs Rulings Online Search System (CROSS) Search customs rulings from the recently renamed Customs and Border Protection agency of the Department of Homeland Security.
• Dynamic Document Creation This page at Strategis, sponsored by Statistics Canada and the U.S. Department of Commerce lets you select specific items from either the CIA World Factbook, International Business Practices Documents, Market Research Reports, or Country Commercial Guides and prepare a custom report. This is a great boon if you need only a brief, selected report and do not need the entire Guide or Report.
• Ease of Doing Business Rankings  The World Bank Group attempts to provides objective measures of business regulations and their enforcement across 183 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level.
• Economic Research Service (ERS) Briefing Rooms These research reports from the U.S. Department of Agriculture cover various products (corn, hogs, etc.) or countries that are major export/import partners (China, Brazil). An excellent source for trade data and agricultural research.
• Economist Country Briefings Statistics, profiles, forecasts, and economic data, listed by country from the Economist magazine.
• Europages Europages lets you search by company name, product, or industry group and returns matching lists of companies with addresses and, in some cases, gross sales or workforce size.
• Eurostat European Union economic and social data, some of it updated daily
• Export.Gov Market Research The Country Commercial Guides can be found here, along with Country & Industry Market Reports, Agricultural Market Research, Video Market Reports,Project Feasibility Studies, Broad Country Information, Country-specific Quick Reference, Trade Agreements & Statistics, and NIS and Central Europe Reports
• FDI.net The site combines business and public resources with World Bank Group analysis to provide users with a single entry point for the full-spectrum of information needed to make a decision about direct foreign investment.  Resources available for 175 countries.
• Forbes Global 2000 The top 2000 international companies. Forbes also has list called the International 500, showing the 500 largest companies based outside the US.
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) Text of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act Antibribery Provisions
• Fortune Global 500 The world's largest corporations, by revenue.
• FXConverter This currency converter from OANDA.Com lets you convert 164 currencies, provides current and historical exchange rates back to 1990, and lets you print a wallet-sized conversion card for traveling.
• globalEDGE Growing out of what was Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research, this is probably the best directory of resources for international business and trade on the Internet and the source of many of the links on this page.
• Global Trade Portal Maintained by the Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA), this site is the source for international import export trade leads, events, and links to 8,000 international trade (export import) related Websites
• Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Current tafiff schedules from the United States International Trade Commission
• Hemispheric Trade and Tariff Database Detailed trade statistics for the Americas and the Caribbean.
• ILO - The International Labour Organization Information on international labor standards, databases of labor statistics, and links to resources in labor law, education and training
• InfoNation This United Nations site allows you to select two or more countries and compare social, demographic and economic data.
• Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb U.S. import statistics, U.S. export statistics, U.S. tariffs, U.S. future tariffs and U.S. tariff preference information are available on a self-service, interactive basis from the United States International Trade Comission.
  
• International Data Base Demographic data from 227 countries compiled by the US Census Bureau. The data go back to 1950 and have projections to 2050.
• International Labor Comparisons: United States, Europe, and Asia Comparative figures from the U.S. Department of Labor
• International Monetary Fund Country Page full-text reports from the IMF
• MarketWatch Global Markets European, Asian, North and South American markets, and ADR's, from the Wall Street Journal's MarketWatch. Delayed prices and extensive charting are provided for each exchange.
• McKinsey Global Institute In-depth reports on offshoring, foreign investment, and other topics prepared by this major consulting company. Free registration is required.
• METI Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry (formerly MITI). Press releases, news and statistics.
• MSI Doing Buiness Guides MacIntyre Sträter International (MSI) country guides have fast facts, an economic overview, and links to sites that deal with business culture, taxation, accounting, and business conditions.
• Nation Master A massive central data source compiling information from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.  Can be used to graphically compare nations.
• National Accounts Statistics database This United Nations database contains a complete and consistent set of time series from 1970 onwards of main national accounts aggregates for all UN Members States and all other countries and areas in the world.
• North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) Information on the NAICS, the replacement to the SIC codes that have been used to classify industries and services.
• Out-Law.Com From Pinsent Masons, a legal firm based in the UK, Out-Law provides free information based on UK, EU, and Hong Kong laws on IT, e-commerce, privacy, intellectual property, software, telecoms, security, cybercrime, tax, employment, companies.
• POPLINE "the world's largest bibliographic database of family planning and related health and development issues"
• Population Index "Population Index is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics. This website provides a searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published in Population Index in the period 1986-2000."
• Portals to the World This portal from the Library of Congress provides selected links to cultural, government, business, and educational sites for hundred of countries.
• Salomon Smith Barney Guide to World Equity Markets financial information on 81 countries, updated annually.
• SchedNet Air and sea schedules, rates, cargo tracking, logistic search service, links to agents, freight rates, shipping arrivals and departures, and shipping news are all available from this site.
• STAT-USA current and historical economic and financial data and access to GLOBUS and the National Trade Databank (NTDB, all from the US Department of Commerce. The Library has four accounts and they are only available on the database workstations in the O'Toole Library. Click here for a password to access it from other computers.
• Strategis Trade data from Statistics Canada and the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Thomas Global Register from Thomas Publishing provides information on "500,000 industrial suppliers, organized by 10,500 industrial product classifications, in 9 languages and from 26 countries." Registration is free but you have to agree to accept e-mail ads in return.
• Thomas Register of European Manufacturers (TREM) list over 140,000 industrial suppliers in Austria, Finland, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, and the United Kingdom.
• Time and Date.Com Find out the current time anywhere in the world, use a time zone meeting planner to schedule international conference calls, create local calendars.
• Times 100 UK Case studies and marketing theory, featuring 100 major companies in the UK.
• Trade Agreements Database & Archive Database of 164 bilateral and regional free trade and customs union agreements at Dartmouth College
• Trade Association Directory A directory of trade associations in the United Kingdom
• Trade Partners the UK government site for import/export information.
• Trade Statistics from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Tradepoint This site from the World Trade Point Federation, created by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development is still developing and the amount and quality of information varies as each trade point contributes its pages. However, the individual country pages (under Market Point) do have much useful information.
• Tradeport a non-profit organization that offers many other tools for foreign trade, including the Country Commercial Guides and other market research reports in their Country Library. This site has not been updated in some time but still has useful information.
• U.S. Imports/Exports History: 1992-1996 seachable trade statistics from from the Census Bureau and the Government Information Sharing Project at Oregon State University Information Services.
• U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Trade and other data from the Bureau of Economic Analysis
• U.S. International Transactions Accounts Data Detailed, interactive tables from the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
• UNCTAD Handbook of Statistics From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, this handbook contains data on trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment, commodity prices, and TRAINS(Trade Analysis Information System) on trade controls. Free registration is required.
• United Nations Food and Agriculture Agency (FAO) Statistical data and reports on commodities, food stocks, production, imports and exports. Text is available in French, Spanish, or Arabic.
• United States Department of Engergy Country Analysis Briefs excellent background on oil, gas, coal, and other energy production and consumption, along with major environmental issues.
• United States Government Export Portal from the US Department of State has links to forms, tax information, the Basic Guide to Exporting and current news.
• United States Trade Internet System searchable data from the US Department of Agriculture's Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) on US exports and imports of agricultural, fishery, and forestry products.
• Universal Currency Converter This English/French/Sweedish site from Xenon Labs lets you convert foreign currency at current exchange rates
• US-ASEAN Business Council Information on doing business with the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN):Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam
• U.S. Commercial Service Reports Country Commercial Guides (CCG), Market Research Reports, and Best Market reports composed by the U.S. Embassy, covering all regions of the world.
• Virtual International Business and Economic Sources (VIBES) from from UNC-Charlotte provides over 1,300 English-language links to international business resources. It does not include fee-based services.
• World Bank Group--Development Data: Country data Excellent two-page summary statistics on economic development for each country, from the World Bank.
• World Competitiveness On-line A scorecard measuring the competitiveness of countries based on domestic economy, internationalization, government, finance, infrastructure, management, science and technology, and people.
• World Federation of Exchanges Statistics and studies of all of the world's major stock exchanges
• World Tax Database "This data is compiled by the World Tax Database, a project of the Office of Tax Policy Research [University of Michigan Business School] that has been funded by a grant from the Ford Foundation"
• worldinformation.com From a British trade publisher, this site offers a summary of statistical information and very useful links to news and government Web sites, and a directory of business contacts
• Wright Research Stock market information on over 18,000 worldwide companies, along with a currency converter that converts tabular data.
• Yale Global Online Sponsored by Yale University this is an online journal of news and views on globalism and its effect on economics, the environment, health, labor, politics, culture, trade, and other areas.