RESOURCES

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MARKET RESEARCH

International

https://www.globaltradealert.org/

Global Trade Alert provides timely information on state interventions taken since November 2008 that are likely to affect foreign commerce. It includes state interventions affecting trade in goods and services, foreign investment and labour force migration.

https://findrulesoforigin.org/

Rules of Origin Facilitator is the first comprehensive global online resource on tariffs, trade agreements and rules of origin designed with SMEs in mind. The tool enables you in a few clicks to find out import duties in foreign markets applicable to your product, available duty savings, detailed rules of origin, and certification procedures.

 

Rules of Origin Facilitator is a global public good and is absolutely free to all users.

https://www.intracen.org/

As the joint agency of the United Nations and the WTO, ITC is the only multilateral agency fully dedicated to supporting the internationalisation of SMEs. Its joint mandate combines a focus on expanding trade opportunities with the aim of fostering sustainable development.

https://epingalert.org/en

ePing enables timely access to evolving product requirements and facilitates dialogue amongst the public and private sector in addressing potential trade problems at an early stage.

https://www.macmap.org/

Identify customs tariffs, tariff rate quotas, trade remedies, regulatory requirements and preferential regimes applicable to your product.

https://tmdb.wto.org/en

The WTO Trade Monitoring Exercise is a factual, non-legal exercise that provides transparency regarding new trade and trade policy related measures. Two Trade Monitoring Reports are circulated every year, in July and December, allowing WTO Members to undertake an interactive peer review at the WTO Headquarters. The Reports are developed in close cooperation with WTO Members and cover trade measures implemented in the areas of goods, services and intellectual property. They also provide up-to date accounts on other issues, including trade remedies, SPS, TBT and agriculture.

http://tariffdata.wto.org/Default.aspx

This database contains comprehensive information on Most- Favoured-Nation (MFN) applied and bound tariffs at the standard codes of the Harmonized System (HS) for all WTO Members. When available, it also provides data at the HS subheading level on non-MFN applied tariff regimes which a country grants to its export partners. This information is sourced from submissions made to the WTO Integrated Data Base (IDB) for applied tariffs and imports and from the Consolidated Tariff Schedules (CTS) database for the bound duties of all WTO Members.

https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/doingbusiness

Doing Business provides objective measures of business regulations for local firms in 190 economies.

 

https://exportpotential.intracen.org/en/

The Export Potential Map provides timely and practical information on products, markets, and suppliers with untapped potential, and ranks new sectors with favourable chances of export success.

It is detailed, robust, and geared towards supporting sustainable development. It uses data based on the 6-digit level of the Harmonized System and employs a wide range of measures to enhance data quality. The Export Potential Map focuses beyond extractive industries, as well as environmentally damaging and hazardous products, to guide export development towards a less volatile and more environmentally conscious path. It also integrates information on land and resources available in countries to deliver targeted results.

https://www.worldstopexports.com/

WTEx presents the latest export news, trends and opportunities by focusing on the biggest and fastest-growing exporting countries, leading trade partners, pertinent companies as well as essential trade products and services.

https://oec.world/en

The Observatory of Economic Complexity (OEC) is an online data visualization and distribution platform focused on the geography and dynamics of economic activities. The OEC integrates and distributes data from a variety of sources to empower analysts in the private sector, public sector, and academia.

https://www.cbi.eu/

The Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs

 

By Industry

  • Market Price Information: https://mpi.intracen.org/home Market Price Information provides free access to real-time data on prices and market updates for more than 300 agricultural products.
    For each product, prices are broken down by variety, quality and other characteristics, enabling micro, small and medium size enterprises to stay updated on the latest market movements. Real time price data is available for the following sectors:
    • Agricultural soft commodities
    • Culinary spices and herbs
    • Dairy and livestock
    • Fish and seafood
    • Fresh fruits and vegetables
    • Grains, pulses and oilseeds
    • Oils nuts and fats
  • International Olive Council: https://www.internationaloliveoil.org/
  • RASFF (The Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed): https://webgate.ec.europa.eu/rasff-window/screen/search
  • Food, Farm and Fisheries | European Commission: https://ec.europa.eu/info/food-farming-fisheries_en
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By Country

Safety Gate (the EU rapid alert system for dangerous non-food products): https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport

Foreign Trade Statistics Database: http://aduanas.camaras.org/

STATISTICS

International

https://www.marinevesseltraffic.com/1998/01/baltic-dry-index-bdi.html

The Baltic Dry Index (BDI) is an economic indicator issued daily by the London based Baltic Exchange. Not restricted to Baltic Sea countries, the index provides an assessment of the price of moving the major raw materials by sea. Taking in 23 shipping routes measured on a timecharter basis the index covers Handysize, Supramax, Panamax and Capesize dry bulk carriers carrying a range of commodities including coal, iron ore and grain.

https://comtrade.un.org/

Free access to detailed global trade data. UN Comtrade is a repository of official international trade statistics and relevant analytical tables.

https://tradingeconomics.com/

Trading Economics provides its users with accurate information for 196 countries including historical data and forecasts for more than 20 million economic indicators, exchange rates, stock market indexes, government bond yields and commodity prices. Our data is based on official sources, not third party data providers, and our facts are regularly checked for inconsistencies. Trading Economics has received more than 1 billion page views from more than 200 countries.

https://www.socialprogress.org/

The Social Progress Imperative is a global nonprofit based in Washington, DC, providing decision-makers and everyday citizens with the very best data on the social and environmental health of their societies and helping them prioritize actions that accelerate social progress.

 

https://www.statista.com/

Insights and facts across 170 industries and 150+ countries.

https://www.trademap.org/

Trade Map provides – in the form of tables, graphs and maps – indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and competitive markets, as well as a directory of importing and exporting companies.
Trade Map covers 220 countries and territories and 5300 products of the Harmonized System. The monthly, quarterly and yearly trade flows are available from the most aggregated level to the tariff line level.

By Country

COMPANY DIRECTORIES

International

https://all.biz/

Online directory of goods and services, focused on the promotion of national products and services in the domestic and foreign markets around the world in 26 languages​​. All.biz has offices in 13 countries.

https://kompass.com/

Kompass is the leading online global business directory with nearly 4 million registered businesses in 60 countries.

https://www.brownbook.net/

Brownbook.net is the free Global Business Listing Database that anyone can edit.

https://www.infobel.com/

With a global digital platform, Kapitol-Infobel publishes and continually updates a database of some 300 million telephone subscribers and 270 million businesses worldwide.

By Country

Algerian Chamber of Commerce and Industry: https://www.caci.dz/

 

Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation: https://www.matrade.gov.my/

 

By Region

https://www.wlw.de/

The leading B2B platform in the DACH region wlw („Wer liefert was“) helps small and medium-sized companies in Germany, Austria and Switzerland to use digital channels for their sales and marketing activities and thus extend their reach on the Internet.

 

By Industry

NEWS

The EUbusiness web site is Europe’s independent online business information service about the European Union.

SEARCH ENGINES

https://www.google.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/

Wikipedia: DuckDuckGo (also abbreviated as DDG) is an internet search engine that emphasizes protecting searchers’ privacy and avoiding the filter bubble of personalized search results. DuckDuckGo does not show search results from content farms. It uses various APIs of other websites to show quick results to queries and for traditional links it uses the help of its partners (mainly Bing) and its own crawler.

https://www.bing.com/

Microsoft Bing (commonly known as Bing) is a web search engine owned and operated by Microsoft. The service has its origins in Microsoft’s previous search engines: MSN Search, Windows Live Search and later Live Search. Bing provides a variety of search services, including web, video, image and map search products. It is developed using ASP.NET.

https://www.dogpile.com/

Dogpile is a metasearch engine for information on the World Wide Web that fetches results from Google, Yahoo!, Yandex, Bing and other popular search engines, including those from audio and video content providers such as Yahoo!.

https://yandex.com

Yandex is a Russian internet and technology company that operates the most popular search engine in Russia.

https://biznar.com/biznar/desktop/en/search.html

Biznar is a deep web search engine that returns high quality results by submitting your query to other search engines and collating, ranking and dropping duplicates in the results.

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

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