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Country Information
- Country Studies
- Covers 101 countries and regions throughout the world. Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of these countries.
The library has a print collection of country studies located in the reference area of Document Center. Materials are shelved alphabetically by country names. - U.S. Department of State
- Provides numerous information, including: countries and regions, international topics and issues, history, education and culture, business, and more.
- Background Notes
- In-depth surveys of various countries.Provides access to information produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Information includes a variety of statistical databases and the full texts of many OECD books and periodicals, in the fields of economics, labor, energy, social issues, and international trade and development.
- SourceOECD
- Provides access to information produced by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Information includes a variety of statistical databases and the full texts of many OECD books and periodicals, in the fields of economics, labor, energy, social issues, and international trade and development.
- Global Insight: Country Intelligence
- Country Intelligence provides information on 203 countries worldwide with analysis of breaking events and trends. Country Reports present detailed analysis and commentary on each country's business environment with focus on six key areas: political, economic, legal, tax, operational, and security. Special Reports provide deeper analysis of trends on country, regional or global basis.
- Global Insight: Data Access
- Data Access (also called "DataInsight-WEB") provides comprehensive coverage of historical regional, national, and global economic, financial, and commodity information. Includes historical data on macroeconomic variables such as national income accounts, balance of payments, foreign debt, exchange rates, money supply and employment, among other categories. It also provides access to the basic U.S. Economic Indicators and International Economic Indicators data banks, and data on the IMF series and the OECD series. Note: Requires Internet Explorer.
- World News Connection
- Regional and country information via the US government.
Statistics
Databases
- SourceOECD
- Statistical Universe
Provides access to all statistics issued by the U.S. government (back to 1973), approximately 1,000 of the best statistical publications of state government and private sources from 1980 forward, as well as international statistics compiled by foreign governments and international agencies such as the World Bank and IMF.
Reference/Web Resources
- Business Rankings Annual
- DOCS REF HG 4050 .B88 [On Business Table]
Rankings of companies, products, services, and activities compiled from published sources and arranged by subject. Includes an SIC index. Worldwide coverage. - Direction of Trade Statistics Yearbook
- DOCS REF HF 1016 .D542 [On Business Table]
Seven years of country-specific export and import data in US dollars. Find out who exports and imports from whom. - Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
- DOCS REF HG 4538 .A1 D5 [On Business Table]
Provides information on American firms that have branches, subsidiaries, or affiliates outside of the United States. - International Marketing Data and Statistics, 1998
- DOC-LC HA 42 .I56
Country-level statistics on demographics, consumer expenditure patterns, retailing and retail distribution, consumer market sizes, literacy and education, and advertising and media patterns. - International Financial Statistics
- DOCS REF HG 3881 .I6263 [On Business Table]
Financial information on almost all IMF member countries, including exchange rates, money and banking accounts, interest rates, production prices, and national accounts. The monthly edition contains 8 years of data, with the most recent 4 years broken into both annual and quarterly data. The Yearbook (DOCS REF HG 3881 .I6263 On Statistics Table) has twenty years of data. - International Trade Centre: International Trade Statistics
- This Website includes a TradeMap, which is an interactive Web application presenting trade statistics and market access information for international business development; information on National and Sectoral Trade Performances by country, and General Trade Data 2001-2005 by product group and country for both imports and exports.
- International Trade Statistics Yearbook
- DOCS REF HF91 .U473 [On Statistics Table]
Country-specific and regional export and import data. For each country there is historical data, imports and exports listed by trading partner, and exports / imports by commodity and industrial area. - The Trade Information Center
- Links to country and regional market information.
Guides / Business Regulations
- Doing Business In ...
- Search the library's online catalog for the title "Doing Business In...". You will retrieve titles on doing business in different countries.
These books are guides for doing business in foreign countries. They cover all the basic information about investment incentives, regulations, taxes, the business environment in the country, etc.
Directories
- World Business Directory
- DOCS REF HF 54 .U5 W667 [On Business Index Table)
Directory of 140,000 companies involved in international trade. The companies are listed alphabetically by country.
- DOCS REF HF 54 .U5 W667 [On Business Index Table)
Periodicals Indexes
- Academic Search Premier
- Full text for over 1,250 academic, social sciences, humanities, general science, education and multi-cultural journals. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 2,880 journals.
- Business Source Premier
- Full text from nearly 930 journals covering business, management, economics, banking, finance, accounting and much more. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for nearly 1,570 journals.
- JSTOR: Electronic Journal Archive
- A fully searchable electronic database that contains the scanned images of over 100 major research journals in a variety of academic disciplines including business and economics, some of which began publication as early as the 1870s.
- Lexis Nexis Academic
- Provides comprehensive coverage of current news, business and company information, government and legal information and more.
- Wall Street Journal (Eastern Edition)
- The Wall Street Journal, the financial newspaper of record, is an indispensable source for business professionals, providing business and financial news coverage, personal and company profiles, feature reporting, special reports, and regular columns. The database provides the full-text articles from the Wall Street Journal going back to at least 1986, with some material from earlier years. It includes the entire text of written articles, but no graphs or data, such as stock prices.
- World News Connection
- A foreign news service run by the United States Government - good for information about countries and regions.
Selected Internet Resources
- International Trade Administration
- The ITA offers a great deal of information on international trade, even if the page is somewhat difficult to navigate.
- The Marketing Virtual Library
- Links to marketing resources.
- Virtual International Business and Economics Sources (VIBES)
- Provides over 1,500 links to Internet sources of international business and economic information that are in English and available free of charge. Highly recommended.
Coding Systems
Trade statistics are organized using several numerical coding systems. The Harmonized System and the Standard International Trade Classification are the two main systems used for international trade statistics. Other systems are used for statistics of individual countries.
Harmonized System
The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, generally referred to as "Harmonized System", is an international 6-digit commodity classification developed by the World Customs Organization (WCO). Both export and import statistics are classified and published according to the Harmonized System. Individual countries have extended it to 10 digits for imports to serve as the basis for Customs tariffs and international trade statistics and to 8 digits for export purposes. The Unites States uses a 10-digit system for both exports and imports.
Web access: Harmonized System Codes --- From Foreign Trade Online.
Standard International Trade Classification
The Standard International Trade Classification is the standard classification for the reporting of international trade statistics and provides detailed categories for the classification of commodities arranged in a hierarchy of 5-digit levels. It has been developed and administered by the United Nations and all member countries are mandated to report using this code.Web access:: SITC Rev 3. -- from the United Nations Statistics Division.
Harmonized Tariff Schedules of the United State (for imports)
The United States adopted the latest version of the Harmonized System in 1989, published by the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) as the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States. The HTS provides the applicable tariff rates and statistical categories for all merchandise imported into the United States. This ten-digit identifying number is assigned to each product and used by customs officials to determine the duties, taxes and regulations that apply to the product. The first six digits are harmonized throughout the world. The last four are unique to the United States. The HTS is available via:Print: Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States SuDoc ITC1.10
Web Access:
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States
Interactive Tariff and Trade DataWeb -- View 2004 Tariff.
Schedule B (for export)
The U.S. Department of Commerce uses a 10-digit code to report on export statistics. The initial 6 digits are identical to HS, but further digits may be different. The first 6 digits also match the first 6 digits of the HS codes. Sources for looking up the Schedule B codes are:Maintained by: Kaiping Zhang, kzhang@uoregon.eduPrint: U.S. Imports of Merchandise SuDoc C3.278/2:
Web access: Schedule B - From Foreign Trade Statistics of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Last Modified: 02/20/2008