Importing and Exporting: General Resources

Global trade analysis and news. Published by the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development.

Export USA is the export promotion magazine of the USA. The magazine is designed to help American companies promote their products and services to buyers in more than 178 countries worldwide. Includes company index.

Export.gov brings together resources from across the U.S. Government to assist American businesses in planning their international sales strategies and succeed in today’s global marketplace.

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is the official export credit agency of the United States. Ex-Im Bank's mission is to assist in financing the export of U.S. goods and services to international markets.

The FITA Global Trade Portal, is the source for international import export trade leads, events, and links to 8,000 international trade (export import) related Websites.

Created by the International Business Center at Michigan State University and funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education Title VI B grant, globalEDGE is a global business knowledge Web portal. Research, tutorials, emerging market resources, diagnostic and comparator tools, interactive rankings, and more.

Official blog of the U.S. Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division.

Includes Incoterms 2010, a tool to ensure correct application of the Incoterms® rules in global and domestic sales transactions

Executive Office of the President of the United States. Includes annual National Trade Estimate Report on Foreign Trade Barriers, trade agreements, trade topics, links to U.S. trade agencies and trade data, and country/region information.

OPIC is the U.S. Government’s development finance institution. It mobilizes private capital to help solve critical development challenges and in doing so, advances U.S. foreign policy.

Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
The Trade and Development Report (TDR), launched in 1981, is issued every year for the annual session of the Trade and Development Board.
The Report analyses current economic trends and major policy issues of international concern, and makes suggestions for addressing these issues at various levels.

(Also available in print.)

The U.S. Commercial Service helps U.S. companies find new international business partners in worldwide markets. Includes links to guides, research, and trade statistics.

Directory of ports in almost 200 countries.

Use the publication list as a reference guide for materials. Many listed publications are available free through U.S. government websites.

From Export.gov. Answers questions about how to establish and grow overseas markets for products and services. Samples of forms needed to export and information on how to obtain guidance and counseling through federal government Export Assistance Centers and commercial counselors located in U.S. embassies abroad.

U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of Industry and Security

ISO is the world’s largest developer of voluntary International Standards. Network of national standards bodies representing 162 countries.

Lippincott Library - Reference Desk
Call no.: HD62.4 .C36 2004
Available for use in library.

Lippincott Library - Reference Desk
Call no.: HF1373 .H55 2002
Available for use in library.

Lippincott Library - Reference Desk
Call no.: HF3011 .E9
Available for use in library.
Library has: 2008/2009
Notes: Not currently received.

(Lippincott Reference Desk also holds the Cumulative Index and latest Update at the same call no.)

Review these sections: Export Documentation, Country chapters, Shipping, Communications, Information Sources, Transportation Data.

Lippincott Library and Lippincott Library Reference Desk
Call no.: HF5389 .M67 2006
Available for use in library.

Secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Lippincott Library
Call no.: HF1410 .T722
Available for use in library.
Library has: 1981-2000, 2002, 2004-2007, 2009-2010, (1981-2011), 2012-2013
(Notes: Currently received. Latest year at Lippincott Reference Desk.)