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	APECNet: Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (includes information about member economies & trade in Asia, Oceania, North America, & South America)
	ASEAN Secretariat: Association of Southeast Asian Nations (includes economic, trade, & statistics information)
	Bureau of Labor Statistics (includes inflation & consumer spending; wages, earnings, & benefits; productivity; safety & health; international; occupations; demographics, employment & unemployment, at a glance tables; publications & research papers; industries; business costs; geography; CPI, PPI, MPI, XPI, & ECI data. CPI = Consumer Price Index; PPI = Producer Price Index; MPI = Import Price Index; XPI = Export Price Index; ECI = Employment Cost Index; U.S. Department of Labor)
	Business Information Service for the Newly Independent States (BISNIS) (primary resource center for U.S. companies exploring business opportunities in Russia & other Newly Independent States; U.S. Department of Commerce)
	Business.gov: International Trade (includes government information about international trade related to: (1) laws & regulations, (2) trade finance, (3) trade leads, (4) exporting, & (5) associations & agencies; managed by U.S. Small Business Administration)
	Carnegie Endowment for International Peace: Trade, Equity, and Development (a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to developing solutions to unwanted side effects of globalization on the environment, jobs, income inequality, or other social issues)
	EuroGuide (includes information about the European Union)
	Europa: Gateway to the European Union
	Export.Gov (a U.S. government export portal with general data plus a "Market Research" link with information related to: (1) trade agreements & statistics, & (2) country & industry; some market reports can only be accessed by registering as Student/Researcher)
	Foreign Trade Statistics (includes monthly statistical reports, imports & exports by country, trade balances, & commodity trade; U.S. Census Bureau)
	Industry and Trade Summaries (includes reports that provide a snapshot of an industry, commodity, or service sector for U.S. & foreign suppliers, customs treatment, production, & markets, as well as competitiveness of the product or service in the U.S. & global markets; United States International Trade Commission)
	Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (an organization that promotes family farms, rural communities, & world ecosystems through research & education, science & technology, & advocacy)
	International Trade Administration (trade specialists at the U.S. Department of Commerce)
	NAFTA Topics (NAFTA = North American Free Trade Agreement; U.S. Customs Service)
	OECD: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (includes economic information by topic & country & has statistics, publications & documents, & news releases)
	SICE: Foreign Trade Information System (includes information about hemispheric integration & trade trends; Organization of American States)
	Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 3 (SITC, Rev. 3) (used for compiling international trade statistics on all merchandise entering international trade & for promoting international comparability of international trade statistics; United Nations)
	State of Washington Department of Community, Trade and Economic Development
	tdctrade.com (Hong Kong Trade Development Council)
	Trade and Development Report (a report issued every year for the annual session of the Trade and Development Board that analyses current economic trends & major policy issues of international concern, & makes suggestions for addressing these issues at various levels; includes PDF reports from 1996 to current; United Nations--UNCTAD)
	Trade Development Alliance of Greater Seattle (promotes the trade interests of the Greater Seattle region in domestic & international markets; includes a useful directory of international trade organizations in Washington State & a Seattle Business Directory of trade alliance members)
	Trade Information Center (includes export resources, country information, & statistics; U.S. Department of Commerce--International Trade Administration)
	UNCTAD: United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (includes general information related to the program categories of trade & development, as well as statistics relevant for the analysis of international trade, foreign direct investment, commodities, & development)
	United States International Trade Commission (an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides trade expertise to both the legislative & executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, & directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as patent, trademark, & copyright infringement)
	U.S. Trade and Development Agency (advances economic development and U.S. commercial interests in developing and middle income countries)
	Washington Council on International Trade: Web Links (a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan association that promotes trade in Washington State)
	World Trade Organization

rev. 01/22/05