This section lists servers that cover multilateral data, country data, and data guides and discussion groups. For data sources specific to a single industry you may also want to review Trade Resource's industry and regional and country pages.

The links below are external and are provided as a convenience for the public. The links do not constitue or imply USITC endorsement or approval. The USITC takes no responsibility for, and exercises no control over, the organizations, views, or accuracy of the information contained on any linked site. When you access one of these sites, you are leaving the USITC's website.

Multilateral

• United Nations International Computing Centre: Links to various UN-related Internet sites
• International Trade Centre [UNCTAD/WTO]: U.N. trade statistics for all coutries at the three digit SITC level.
• Lanic International Services [University of Texas].
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR): Surveys of mass and elite attitudes, census records, election returns, international interactions, and legislative records
• CHASS Computing Facility at the University of Toronto: Selected databases (Some are free; most are subscription based).
• Penn World Tables: A database of International Comparisons. Includes stats on population, GDP, GNP, consumption, investments, price levels, exchange rates. [University of Pennsylvania]

Country or Region

Africa:

• African Development Bank

Asia-Pacific:

• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• Asian Development Bank

Canada

• Statistics Canada: Information for understanding and ordering Canadian trade statistics

• Eurostat: Economic and social statistics, regional data, external trade data at product level
• Office for Official Publications of the European Communities: Official publisher of all the organs of the European Union

• The Research Institute of the Fininsh Economy

Japan

• Japan-Agency of Industrial Science & Technology, MITI

Latin America/Caribbean:

• Free Trade Area of the Americas
• Inter-American Development Bank
• Latin American Integration Association
• NAFTA Secretariat
• Organization of American States - Foreign Trade Information System

Norway

• Statistics Norway

• Bureau of the Census' Industrial Products Overview
• STAT-USA: U.S. economic and trade statistics
• U.S. Bureau of the Census, Foreign Trade Division: U.S. trade data
• Schedule B U.S. export trade classification schedule [U.S. Bureau of the Census]
• Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS): Employment, pricing, productivity [U.S. Dept. of Labor]
• The Beige Book: Economic conditions by Federal Reserve District [U.S. Federal Reserve]
• Securities and Exchange Commision's EDGAR Database: U.S. corporate financial disclosures

Comprehensive Data Sites

• A Guide to Statistical Computing Resources on the Internet [Universityof Michigan]
• CodEc, The Net EC Project: Programs and routines used by economists and econometricians
• AEA
• IMF: International Financial Statistics, Primary Commodity Prices, External Debt, World Economic Outlook Database
• World Bank - World Development Indicators