At this site at the State Department you will find the current guide and links to previous guides. Not all guides are updated each year, so you may need to download the country information you need from their archive. Gov also carries the Country Commercial Guides, along with other market research links, trade regulations, forms, and tax information. Market Research Reports , Industry Sector Analysis Reports and other data from the U.S. Department of Commerce is available in the Country Library at Tradeport , a non-profit organization that offers many other tools for foreign trade. Detailed foreign trade data from Stat-USA, the Federal government's Web site for economic information.
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The American Export Register from Thomas Publishing provides 5,500 product and service categories from over 44,000 U.S. Companies. The site is available in English, German, Spanish, Portuguese, French and Italian, with Chinese Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic and Russian forthcoming. Registration is free but you have to agree to accept e-mail ads in return. Mbendi Informaton on African companies, industries, economic, business, and tax data on individual countries, import and export leads, and stock exchanges. An excellent site, full of information on Africa.