 United States Trade Representative »
Official website for America's chief trade negotiator and principal advisor to the president.
The High Cost of the China-WTO Deal
- The Economic Policy Unit provides information on US policy regarding China and its entry into the WTO.
(February 01, 2000)
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 Margin: The Journal of Applied Economic Research »
Journal with peer-reviewed articles on applied economics including monetary and fiscal policies, trade and regulation, international investment, rural economics and development economics.
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 Cybex Exim Solutions »
Export import information on India and other countries.
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 European Trade Study Group »
The ETSG is a forum for academic discussion and research on international trade among European universities and research institutes.
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 National Tariff Commission, Pakistan »
The website for the official government trade body in Pakistan.
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 Center for Agricultural and Rural Development »
Academic research and briefings in the Center's main research areas, which includes trade and agricultural policy.
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 International Trade Policy Course »
An interactive on-line course teaching the fundamentals of international trade policy.
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 Essays on International Economics »
Essays on international economics, world trade and politics published by Jock O'Connell.
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 Planetexim »
Aims to provide a structured, comprehensive database for exporters, importers and corporate professionals to do their research and access relevant information in a form and manner that is useful to them.
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 International Trade Theory & Policy Analysis »
An e-text by Steven Suranovic.
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 Trade Policy Special Report »
Articles, and links on free trade issue from the Washington Post newspaper. (Originally posted 1998)
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 FlyingFish - The OECD's Crocodile Tears »
The OECD's Crocodile Tears
- An essay on globalization, WTO, IMF, the World Bank and the OECD.
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 Public Policy Institute of California/CA Global Economy »
The Public Policy Institute of California seeks to understand issues such as how U.S. trade agreements affects California’s state's performance in world markets, the effects of import/export traffic on the state's infrastructure, and the role of immigrants in particular industries
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 Globalization »
Collection of papers by members of the Institute for International Economics on this topic.
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 Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development - OECD »
OECD
- Provides analytical underpinnings to support continued trade liberalisation.
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 Business Planet »
The World Bank Group provides information from about 183 economies around the world, showing how easy or difficult it is to do business there.
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 Trade Policy Papers »
Includes abstracts and full texts of papers on trade policy by Dan Ciuriak.
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 Mr. Smith Goes to Washington »
A web-book with seventeen chapters covering a wide range of trade-related issues.
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 International Economics Network »
A portal for international economics and related disciplines with links to research papers, news and commentaries in the field.
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 DG Enterprise - TBT »
TBT
- EU Website regarding WTO-Technical Barriers to Trade. Database search of notifications and texts.
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 Brasil Iraq Chamber of Commerce and Industry »
A non-profit organization formed with the objective of strengthening the commercial ties between Brazil and Iraq. In Portuguese and English.
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 International Trade Issue Briefings »
International trade briefings and other issues in trade policy analysis.
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 Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) »
Provides data, models, and software for multi-region, applied general equilibrium analysis of global economic issues, and organizes training and conferences.
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 North American Free Trade Agreement - NAFTA »
NAFTA
- The full text of the North American Free Trade Agreement (provided by Organization of American States).
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 Trade and Development Centre »
Contains essays, case studies, country overviews and an online discussion forum.
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 The Cato Center for Trade Policy Studies »
Aims to increase public understanding concerning the benefits of free trade and the costs of protectionism.
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