International Government Guide

Trade and Commerce

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• Map of disputes between WTO Members
  An interactive map that depicts disputes between its member states. The top of the webpage shows a list of highlight-able choices among types of member-state involvement in disputes: as complainant, respondent, or either. The accompanying map shows member-state areas of the world in a color range of whitish pink to red, to indicate the range in the number of disputes (0-100), and non-member-state areas in gray; the United States is bright red.
• US Trade and Development Agency
  USTDA advances economic development and U.S. commercial interests in developing and middle income countries. The agency funds various forms of technical assistance, early investment analysis, training, orientation visits and business workshops that support the development of a modern infrastructure and a fair and open trading environment.
• World Trade Organization
  The WTO is an organization for liberalizing trade, a forum for governments to negotiate trade agreements, a place for them to settle trade disputes, and it operates a system of trade rules. Documents include trade profiles, trade statistics, negotiations, agreements, and other information on international trade.

Databases and Statistics

• LABORSTA - database of labour statistics
  Covers official core labour statistics and estimates for over 200 countries since 1969. Also provides methodological descriptions of main national statistical sources.
  

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