International Links

Americas Net
http://americas.fiu.edu/
This site is a cooperative venture between the Latin American and Caribbean Center of Florida International University, the University of Florida, and the University of Miami. The site was created to help monitor, research, analyze, and disseminate the process of western hemispheric integration. It provides a variety of reports, analyses, and links to other sites related to trade liberalization and integration in the Western hemisphere.

Border Trade Institute (BTI)
http://www.tamiu.edu/coba/bti/
BTI is part of the College of Business Administration and the Graduate School of International Trade and Business Administration at Texas A&M International University. The site provides import and export data across the Texas/Mexican border for all ports at the five-digit Standard Industrial Trade Classification (SITC) level.

Electronic Shipping Guide
http://www.shipguide.com/
This site provides an online database of container shipping schedules of over 60 carriers for voyages in and out of the United States and Canada including import, export, connecting, and feeder service. The schedules are obtained directly from carriers and routinely verified for accuracy. The site advises users to confirm specific dates with carriers prior to booking. Links to other maritime web sites, carrier and port news, and carrier contact information is also provided.

European Economic Data
http://www.europages.com/
European economic data is available via Europages, an international business project. Acrobat Reader software (available for free) is required to access this site's information. One document provides an overview of the main European market trends: analysis, tables, and graphs, with a subject index and a series of hypertext links. Documents are available in five languages.

European Union
http://europa.eu.int/en/info.html
This site provides links and descriptions to various European Union information resources and Internet sites. These include: ISPO--the Information Society Project Office; I'M EUROPE--an initiative of Directorate-General XIII of the European Commission (EC) to provide information about Europe and the European electronic information market; ECHO--an EC host offering free access to more than 20 online databases; CORDIS--the Community R&D Information Service that provides information on all EU-supported R&D activities (past and present); EUROBASES--European Union public databases on a large range of subjects: law, energy, environment, and documentation; EUROSTAT--the Statistical Office of the European Union; and EUR-OP--the Publications Office of the Union.

Inter-American Development Bank (IADB)
http://www.iadb.org
The Inter-American Development Bank, the oldest and largest regional multilateral development institution, was established in December 1959 to help accelerate economic and social development in Latin America and the Caribbean. This site contains information on IADB project documents, basic socioeconomic data on the region, abstracts of IADB publications, IADB press releases, and other material.

International Energy Agency (IEA)
http://www.iea.org
IEA is the energy forum for 23 industrialised countries. IEA member governments are committed to taking joint measures to meet oil supply emergencies. They also have agreed to share energy information, to coordinate their energy policies, and to cooperate in the development of rational energy programs. IEA, founded in 1974 and based in Paris, is affiliated with the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. This site provides information about IEA and its activities and research. Site information is organized into the following main categories: what's new, guided tour, publications, technology, and statistics.

International Trade Administration (ITA), U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.ita.doc.gov
ITA's mission is to encourage, assist, and advocate U.S. exports, to ensure U.S. business has equal access to foreign markets, to enable U.S. businesses to compete against unfairly traded imports, and to safeguard jobs. ITA is organized into several units. This site contains some ITA analyses and reports and links to contacts and other relevant sites. Information is organized by region and country as well as industry sector.

International Trade Centre (ITC), United Nations Conference on Trade and Development/World Trade Organization (UNCTAD/WTO)
http://www.unicc.org
ITC is the focal point in the United Nations system for technical cooperation with developing countries in trade promotion. ITC was created by the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) in 1964. This site provides access to ITC Infobases, ITC Index to Market Information Sources, trade statistics, market news service (MNS), and trade finance information in addition to other materials. UNCTAD trade statistics can also be accessed at the following site: gopher://gopher.unicc.org:70/11/itc/dir3. Data are categorized by products and listed for countries.

International Trade Information System (It-Is)
http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/itis/
This site provides information on It-Is, a computer software system designed to extract and report data pertaining to international trade in a wide range of product categories. It-Is employs United Nations Trade Statistics to provide fast, timely import/export information that can be useful to researchers, businesses, and export promotion agencies. Information is available for 42 of the world's largest trading nations. These nations' trade with all other nations can be assessed for more than 1,200 Standard Industrial Trade Classification (SITC) product categories at varying levels of specificity. It-Is is available for public access with support from the Center for the Study of Western Hemispheric Trade, a consortium of the Texas A&M University System and the University of Texas System. Telnet is required to access the database.

International Trade Law (ITL)
http://itl.irv.uit.no/trade_law/
This site provides information and links related to international trade law. The ITL presents the full texts where relevant and details of several of the most important conventions and other documents used in international trade. It presents these materials by subject (e.g., free trade, sale of goods, transport, insurance, payment), chronologically, and has information pages on trade-related organizations. The ITL also presents a "trade library" with extensive links to other sites related by the subject of international trade.

International Trade Statistics, Bureau of the Census, U.S. Department of Commerce
http://www.census.gov/ftp/pub/foreign-trade/www/
The Foreign Trade Division (FTD) at the Census Bureau is the primary source of statistics on foreign trade data. Specifically, FTD formulates and develops overall plans and programs for the collection, processing, review, linkage with other economic data, and dissemination of statistical data regarding various aspects of the export and import trade of the United States and foreign trade shipping. The site contains current and past press releases on U.S. international trade in goods and services, Schedule B commodity search and files, electronic shipper export declaration (SED) forms and instructions for completion, and other material.

Latin American Network Information Center--University of Texas (UT-LANIC)
http://lanic.utexas.edu/
The UT-LANIC WWW server is managed by the Institute of Latin American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, and sponsored by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Ford Foundation. The objective of UT-LANIC is to provide Latin American users with access to academic databases and information services throughout the Internet world, and to provide Latin Americanists around the world with access to information on and from Latin America. The site contains a variety of information about North American, South American, and Carribbean countries including country profiles, basic socioeconomic data, and pointers to other sites of interest for individual countries.

Maritime Global Net
http://www.mglobal.com/
This site provides information on and links to other maritime industry sites. Information is organized by several categories including: associations, institutions, and societies; government resources; intermodal transportation; marine transportation; news; and world ports.

Mexican Institute of Transport (IMT)
http://www.imt.mx/English/index.html
IMT is a center for research and technological development under the Mexican Communications and Transport Secretary's Office. The functions of IMT include basic and applied research, the generation and adaptation of new technologies, and training. This site provides information on IMT and its research and activities. (Note: Although this is the English version of this site, some of the links still lead to Spanish documents.)

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD): Transport Activities
http://www.oecd.org/transport/
OECD, based in Paris, is an organization that focuses on economic and social issues and policies in the industrialized economies of Western Europe, North America, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. This site provides information on OECD activities in the areas of transport economics and policy, road transport research, and maritime transport.

Organization of American States--Foreign Trade Information System (SICE)
http://www.sice.oas.org
SICE (from the Spanish acronym -- Sistema de Información al Comercio Exterior) was established by the Organization of American States to provide foreign trade information to the public and private sectors of member states, in order to help them promote the entry of their country's products into foreign markets and to assist them in the decisionmaking process. The site provides data, information, and documents on trade in the Western Hemisphere. It also provides full-text access to trade treaties and points to sites that offer sources of trade and investment regulations and data.

SeaPorts of the Americas
http://www.seaportsinfo.com/
This is the official web site of the American Association of Port Authorities. It provides information on ports and the maritime industry of the Western Hemisphere. Information is organized in categories including ports, ports and maritime services, expositions, seminars and trade shows, and industry information and announcements.

Statistics Canada
http://www.statcan.ca
Statistics Canada is Canada's national statistical agency, with programs organized into three broad subject matter areas: demographic and social, socioeconomic, and economic. The site provides access to "Canada at a Glance" (e.g., agreggate statistics on Canadian health, justice, travel, income, housing, and trade), information on Statistics Canada's databases, products, and services, as well as other links and material.

Trade Compass
http://www.tradecompass.com
This comprehensive site is devoted to international trade, transportation, electronic commerce, and international business. The site is organized into five main sections: Trade-News: top trade stories of the day in areas such as trade policy and regulations, privatization, international agreements, and shipping; Marketplace: an international trade Yellow Pages for service providers, manufacturers, and trade associations; Trade Library: government, legal, travel, shipping, and insurance information for conducting international business, organized into 12 main categories including government, shipping, travel/visa, publishing, legal, and freight forwarding; Trade Forum: fosters a dialog between buyers and sellers, contains trade show directories and schedules, and users can post trade-related questions; Search: provides tools to help conduct business on a day-to-day basis (e.g., a Logistics Management System provides an online searchable shipping schedule, a cargo booking service, cargo tracking, and a complete U.S. Customs interface). The site offer both guest and subscription access.

Trade Zone
http://www.tradezone.com/trdzone.htm
This site is a comprehensive directory of international trade-related information sources on the Internet. Links to information sources are organized by category including banks, business opportunities, conventions and meetings, chambers of commerce, government, trade centers, trade law, and transportation.

Transportation Research Board (TRB): List of Non-U.S. Government Organizations
http://www.nas.edu/trb/link/government.html
This site provides an extensive listing of and links to non-U.S. transportation governmental organizations. The listing is alphabetical by country.

Transport Canada
http://www.tc.gc.ca/nov1_96/index_e.htm
This site provides a general overview of Transport Canada and its programs. Site information is organized into several main categories including: internal administration, regulatory consultation, regional information, multimodal policy, and safety and security.

United Nations
http://www.un.org/
This is the main web site for the United Nations. This site provides an overview of the UN, recent UN news and information, links to web sites of specific UN organizations, UN contact information, access to UN abstacts and publications, and other material.

United States International Trade Commission (USITC)
http://www.usitc.gov
USITC is an independent, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides objective trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. USITC analysts and economists investigate and publish reports on U.S. industries and the global trends that affect them. The agency also updates and publishes the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. This site contains access to USITC analyses, reports, and findings as well as agency activities. The most recent copies of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule are also available.

United States Trade Representative (USTR)
http://www.ustr.gov
The Office of the USTR is responsible for developing and coordinating U.S. international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy, and leading or directing negotiations with other countries on such matters. This site contains information on all USTR activities and access to its reports and analyses.

World Bank
http://www.worldbank.org
This site provides information on current World Bank activities, research and publications, country project information, sectoral information, among other materials. Access to abstract and some full-text reports and analyses are available.

World Trade Organization (WTO)
http://www.wto.org/
WTO, established on January 1, 1995, administers and implements multilateral and plurilateral trade agreements, acts as a forum for multilateral trade negotiations, seeks to resolve trade disputes, oversees national trade policies, and cooperates with other international institutions involved in global economic policymaking. This site provides access to WTO press releases, trade policy reviews, WTO reports, and analyses of international trade and trade in the environment. Many WTO publications are also available online.

World Fact Book, U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
The annual CIA World Fact Book is accessible from the main CIA Home Page. It is located in the CIA Publications section of the site. The publication provides a variety of basic information about countries around the world, including information on transporation infrastructure.

World Rail and Transit
http://home.cc.umanitoba.ca/~wyatt/rail-transit-list.html
This site offers a listing by country and city of different rail transit types in use worldwide. Definition and source material are also provided.