The Business Information links provide information in four major areas: Business Information, Trade Policies and Documents, Trade Statistics, and Tourist and Visa Information. Government documents provide the source material for full-text; the links will guide users to other specialized resources on the Internet related to trade and travel.

TRADE AND THE ECONOMY  

Official U.S. Government Policies and Documents

• United States Department of Commerce http://www.ita.doc.gov/
•   Country Commercial Guides for Bahrain: http://www.usatrade.gov/website/CCG.nsf/ShowCCG?OpenForm&Country=BAHRAIN
• U.S. Trade Representative http://www.ustr.gov/reports/
•   Regional and Multilateral Trade Agreements http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/ites/1196/ijee/ej4net.htm
• The United States and The World Trade Organization : http://usinfo.state.gov/topical/econ/wto/wto.htm
• U.S. Trade Representative Home Page http://www.ustr.gov/
• Department of State Economic and Trade Policy : http://www.state.gov/www/issues/economic/us_trade.html
• Department of Commerce Home Page : http://www.doc.gov/
• Department of Agriculture Home Page: http://www.usda.gov/
• International Trade Administration: http://www.mep.nist.gov/centers/resources/hotlist/index.html

• International Trade Law: http://ananse.irv.uit.no/law/nav/law_ref.html

• World Trade Organization (WTO): http://www.wto.org/

Non-official Views on Economic and Trade Policy

• Legal Information Institute (Cornell University): Trade :http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/trade.html
• Electronic Policy Network : http://epn.org/econlink.html
• Institute for International Economics : http://www.iie.com/

• Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE) : http://www.cipe.org

PATENT  

• IBM Patent Server: it allows you to search more than two million patents filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office from 1974 to the  present.  http:/www.ibm.com/patents.

• U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Servers: these servers have extensive information from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.  They offer weekly compilations of bibliographic data and abstracts for new patents, a subject list that provides access to contact points for obtaining further information from PTO, and pamphlets titled Basic Facts about patents and basic facts about registering a trademark.  http://www.uspto.gov.

• U.S. Patents at CNIR:  it offers  adatabase containing bibliographic data for U.S. patent issued from 1976 to the present. http://patents.uspto.gov/patbib_index.html

STATISTICS

• Top 10 US Trade Partners http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/top10.html
• Basic Economic Statistics from the White House : http://www.whitehouse.gov/fsbr/esbr.html
• Census Bureau -- An Index : http://guide-p.infoseek.com/Business/Business_tools/Government_in formation_and_agencies/U_S_Census_Bureau?tid=1206
• Bureau of Labor Statistics : http://stats.bls.gov/
• Business and Economics Numeric Data : http://www.clark.net/pub/lschank/web/ecostats.html
• STAT-USA (Commerce Department) : A subscription service to data collected by over 50 USG agencies
  http://www.stat-usa.gov
• Export and Trade Database Information [formerly National Trade Databank] : Available through STAT-USA by subscription http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/subject/trade.html

• World Economic Window - Economic/trade statistics : http://nmg.clever.net/wew/catbp.html

TRADE AND BUSINESS ASSISTANCE

• Department of Commerce International Trade Site Help: http://www.ita.doc.gov/siteindex.html
• Trade Information Center: http://www.trade.gov/td/tic/

Business Resources

• Business News in the Middle East: http://www.tradearabia.com/

• Business and Financial News/Media - Comprehensive list of business media: http://www.ceoexpress.com/

• Book Summaries - Soundview Executive Book Summaries: http://www.summary.com/

• CNN Financial News: http://money.cnn.com/news/briefing/

• Exchange Rates (CNN Financial News): http://www.cnnfn.com/markets/currencies.html

• Local American Business Journals - Selected stories : http://www.amcity.com/

• Business and Trade Periodicals: http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/busresmain.asp?ResourceCategoryID=2

• American Business Information, Inc. : Names, addresses, ratings, and the like of 10 million businesses
  http://www.abii.com/

• Hoover's Online Home Page - Company information : http://www.hoovers.com/

• Thomas Register : Contact information for US companies, searchable by product http:/www./thomasregister.com:8000/index-new.html

• National SBDC Research Network Home Page : http://www.smallbiz.suny.edu/

• Small Business Administration : http://www.sbaonline.sba.gov

• SmallbizNet - Edward Lowe small business network http://www.lowe.org/

• FinanceNet : Information on international financing organizations 

• Trade Associations - Internet Public Library on associations : http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/AON

• U.S. Chambers of Commerce : http://ayla.avnet.co.uk/cocnet/namerica.html

• Internet Public Library on Business and Economics : http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/RR/BUS/

• International Business Resources on the WWW : http://ciber.bus.msu.edu/busres.htm

• Big Book : http://www.bigbook.com

• NYPL Business Directories Home Page : http://www.nypl.org/research/sibl/directories/namerica.htm

• Yellow Pages Online, Inc. -- Business directory : http://www.ypo.com

• Basic Visa Information (from DOSFAN site)

• Amtrak: http://www.amtrak.com/

• Airlines : http://www.yahoo.com/Recreation/Travel/Air_Travel/

• U.S. Regions : http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/Countries/United_States/Regions/

• U.S. States : http://www.yahoo.com/Regional/U_S__States/

• U.S. Cities and General Travel Information : http://www.city.net/countries/united_states/

• Travel Planner - state visitors bureaus and more. : http://www.ecola.com/travel/

• Maps - to locate a specific address : http://www.proximus.com/yahoo/

• State Department Travel Information : http://travel.state.gov