Really Useful Sites For International Trade Professionals

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REALLY USEFUL SITES FOR INTERNATIONAL TRADE PROFESSIONALS
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March 19, 2002
VOLUME 2 Issue 6

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IN THIS ISSUE
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1. WELCOME
2. WHAT CAN YOU DO ON THE WEB?
3. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COUNTRY STUDIES
4. OUR FEATURED REGIONAL SITE -- SHOWCASE EUROPE
5. MAKE TRANSLATION  WORK FOR YOU
6. ARTS & LETTERS DAILY


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WELCOME
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 Here's your latest issue of Really Useful Sites for
International Trade Professionals. This free bi-weekly
newsletter reviews useful Web sites from the Web Resources
database at FITA's International Trade/ Import-Export Portal at 
http://fita.org, an excellent source for trade leads, news, events, 
and a link library of 4,000+ sites related to international trade. 

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 My name is John McDonnell, and for years I've been writing
about useful Web sites for businesspeople, in various
publications. Now I've focused on international trade, using my
Web research skills to find sites that are useful for
international businesspeople, and some sites that are just plain 
fun for anyone. 

 Here they are:

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WHAT CAN YOU DO ON THE WEB?
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Although people talk about "browsing" the Web, most of us don't
have time to browse when we get online; we want to find what
we're looking for as fast as possible. That's a shame, though,
because the Web was made for browsing. There is so much useful
information online that it's fun to just poke around and see
what surprises you can turn up. Here's a great site for doing
that. It's called What Can You Do On The World Wide Web? at
http://it.stlawu.edu/~tdil/index1.htm, and it's a collection of links
to sites that you'll find compelling. Want to buy a theater
ticket? Calculate how tall your child is going to be? Ask a
doctor a medical question? Find a restaurant? Learn how to write 
a business plan? Schedule a wake up call? Take a tutorial on how 
to show your wife some romance? (I flunked that one.) You'll
find answers to all those questions and many more at this
fascinating site.



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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS COUNTRY STUDIES
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When I help my kids with their geography homework I realize that 
dozens of countries I learned about in school aren't there
anymore. Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, East Germany -- my kids
don't know they ever existed. Well, I found a place where you
can still read about these countries. At the U.S. Library of
Congress Country Studies at http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html 
page you can just scroll down the list and find information about 
hundreds of countries worldwide. The site keeps information on countries 
like Yugoslavia for "historical value to researchers", but there's
also lots of information about existing countries. Click on a
country name, and you'll find detailed information about its
history, demographics, economy, political life, transportation & 
communications networks, and much more.


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Are your prospects part of the international trade community? If 
so, here's an opportunity to showcase your service or product to 
50,000 subscribers of Really Useful Sites for the International
Trade Professional. FITA now offers limited sponsorship
opportunities to selected organizations. For information, please 
contact Barney Lehrer, Director of eCommerce Development at
address@hidden or 1-800-969-FITA extension 4.


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OUR FEATURED REGIONAL SITE -- SHOWCASE EUROPE
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Let's say you're thinking of selling a vitamin product in
Belgium. You'd need to find out if there's a demand for your
type of product in Belgium, plus the governmental regulations
for foreign companies selling there, and you'd probably have
other questions too. One good way to get answers is to go to the 
U.S. Department of Commerce's Showcase Europe at 
http://www.sce.doc.gov site. Here you'll find market research for 
all the countries of Europe. You can search by country or by industry, 
and there's also a calendar of trade shows and other events. This site 
is for both U.S. companies who want to export to Europe, and European companies
who want to import U.S. products. 

There are lots more links to these countries at the FITA site.
Go to FITA's International Trade Web Resources at http://www.fita.org/webindex,
click on Regional Resources and Multi-Lateral Trading Areas in
the left column or "Search by Country or Region" in the right
column, and then scroll down to Europe. Or simply type "Europe"
in the search box at http://www.fita.org.



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MAKE TRANSLATION  WORK FOR YOU
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ARTS & LETTERS DAILY
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Continuing the theme of Web browsing, I found a site where you
can spend hours just following links. It's called Arts & Letters 
Daily at http://www.aldaily.com, and although it may look like a 
site for pointy-headed intellectuals, it's got something for 
everyone. There are links to thought-provoking stories from world 
magazines, newspapers, and journals, plus links to online news 
sources, columnists of note, book reviews, online music sites, 
reference sources, fun sites (bad writing contests, etc.), and 
more. Each item on this site has been selected with care, and 
you're guaranteed to find some stimulating reading here.



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 For a free list of links to useful sites in a wide variety of
categories (both business and personal), visit my Web site at
http://www.reallyusefulsites.org.



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Published by Federation of International Trade Associations 
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Copyright © 2002 The Federation of International Trade Associations. All 
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