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Statesman's Year Book 
International Business Strategy: Perspectives on Implementation in Emerging Markets 
Global Business Today Websites
Layman's Guide to HS and HTS Codes
Resource for import/export information, such as the Harmonized System (HS), Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS), HS codes, Schedule B, and other classification terms within international shipping.
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Tariff and Trade Dataweb
Contains export prospects and market information for various countries and regions.
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International Business Etiquette and Manners
Source for international business etiquette, manners, and cross cultural communication.
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International Trade Administration: Export Solutions
Resource for developing successful international trade strategies. Provides information on networking, finding buyers and partners, foreign market research, financing, and compliance with U.S. foreign trade regulations.
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Geert Hofstede
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Based on Professor Emeritus Geert Hofstede´s validated research, The Hofstede Center offers valuable tools to help visualize cultural differences and their impact.
International Trade Administration
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Provides country information, tariff and tax information, export resources, and industry information.
BBC News Country Profiles
Country and territory profiles providing historical, political, and economic backgrounds. Supplemented by BBC News archives.
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Federation of International Trade Associations
Source for international import/export trade leads, events, and links to 8,000 international trade-related sites.
[More details]See their Really Useful Sites for International Trade Professionals along with resources for country, legal, language, international markets and business directories.
Trade Compliance Center
The Office of Trade Agreements Negotiations and Compliance (TANC) helps make trade agreements work for American exporters and investors
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Country Studies (Library of Congress)
Provides eBooks for 80 books previously published as part of the Country Studies Series, which describes and analyzes the "historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of select countries throughout the world" The series also aimed to analyze how these factors were affected by culture. The focus is on lesser known areas of the world, and as a result, is not comprehensive.
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This guide is designed to get you started with your research for this class. While it is an extensive list of resources, it is not an exhaustive list of sources. If you need more help, please contact your librarian. Click on the headings below to view suggested resources.
PrivCo
Source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.
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Passport
Euromonitor's Passport database contains data for countries around the world covering consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands, country risk and more. Features millions of statistics and in-depth reports on 27 industries with demographic, macro and socioeconomic data and analysis on consumers and economies in 210 countries worldwide.
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Mergent Online
Mergent Online, source for global business and financial information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies, and 17,000+ non-U.S. public companies, as well as extensive corporate and municipal bond, UIT, and dividend information.
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IBISWorld
A comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research. IBISWorld is a powerful business tool to learn about existing clients or potential clients’ core industries of involvement & how changes to those industries can have an impact on you or your organization.
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Public Affairs Information Services (PAIS)
The Public Affairs Information Services database provides information on business, public and international affairs, public and social policies and international relations. PAIS includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, law, public administration / policy, and public and international affairs.
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World Development Indicators Online
World Development Indicators Online, published by the World Bank, is a comprehensive database of development information covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries, and 18 regional and income groups. The extensive collection includes data on population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources and environmental indicators from 1960 onwards.
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ProQuest Asian Business and Reference
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference name has been changed to: Asian & European Business Collection
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Proquest European Business
ProQuest Asian Business and Reference name has been changed to: Asian & European Business Collection
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Statista
Statista aggregates statistical information on over 60,000 topics from more than 18,000 sources, including market research institutes, trade organizations, scientific journals, government databases, and many other private and public resources.
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Bureau of Labor Statistics
Resource for labor market activity, working conditions, price changes, and productivity statistics in the United States. Agency historically has used data collection to inform public and private economic practices and policies.
[More details]This site provides links to principle U.S. federal statistical agencies as well as the statistical agencies of most foreign countries. (A word of caution: detailed data on some country web sites is available only in the language native to that country).
Foreign Trade Statistics
Source for U.S. export and import statistics, export regulations, commodity classifications, and more trade-related topics.
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NationMaster.com
NationMaster is a massive central data source and provides a way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster compiles data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. This web site allows the user to generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics. Note the countries tab but main page is also interesting.
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Countries of the World
Provides a profile for included countries detailing topics such as geography, literacy rates, ethnicity/race, government, economy, flag, languages and many more.
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Trade and tariff data - World Trade organization
The WTO provides quantitative information in relation to economic and trade policy issues. Its data-bases and publications provide access to data on trade flows, tariffs, non-tariff measures (NTMs) and trade in value added.
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United Nations Statistical Yearbook
The main purpose of the Statistical Yearbook is to provide in a single volume a comprehensive compilation of internationally available statistics on social and economic conditions and activities, at world, regional and national levels, covering a ten-year period to the extent possible.
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UNESCO Institute for Statistics
The UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) is the primary source for cross-nationally comparable statistics on education, science and technology, culture, and communication for more than 200 countries and territories.
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OECD Economic Surveys
ECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data.
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