Developed & Maintained by Lloyd C.
Russow
Philadelphia University
GEOGRAPHIC REGIONAL GROUPINGS: (See also, the
regional
development banks on International Organizations
page and Economic Regional Groupings, below)
 | Africa:
 | African Union (AU) {AU
replaced the Organization Of African Unity (OAU) in July 2002 and is
based upon the
New Partnership for
Africa’s Development (NEPAD); see also the United Nations Economic
Commission for Africa (UNECA,
regional integration and trade); and
allAfrica NEPAD site}. |
| Common Market for Eastern and Southern
Africa (COMESA) {treaty, as well as general
information and statistics for member nations}. |
| Economic Community of East African
Nations (ECOWAS) {Information about the treaty, as well as general
regional data and statistics for member nations; see also the mirror site}.
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| South African Development Community (SADC)
{formerly Southern African Development Coordinating
Conference. Members : Angola, Botswana, Democratic republic of Congo
(formerly Zaire), Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia,
Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe}.
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| Africa {Background
Notes and other State Department publications;
United States Department of State}. |
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| Americas (North, Central, Latin, South):
| Andean Community
{also referred to as Comunidad Andina (CAN) general organization information and member nation
statistics
- web site in Spanish only, but some PDF files and
other data are written in Spanish and English. See also, the "About
Us" page}. |
| Caribbean:
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|
CAFTA-DR Environmental Cooperation. See also the
CAFTA-DR
site {Office
of the U.S. Trade Representative}. |
| Free Trade Area of the
Americas (FTAA). |
| Latin America {selected
countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru. Company
information including contact information, web sites, products manufactured,
product catalogs, trade, etc.; Mercantil.com}. |
|
Latin
America and the Caribbean {Statistical Yearbook,
and agriculture, economic development, foreign investment, natural resources and production statistics and
information; United Nations, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC)}.
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| Latin
American Integration Association (LAIA)/La Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración
(ALADI). |
| Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP) (focus
is on Latin American nations, as well as a few other countries around the
world. LAPOP provides results/reports on surveys they conduct on the
political views (democratic values) of the citizens of the various
countries; LAPOP). |
| Mercado del Sur (MERCOSUR), also known as The
Treaty of Asunción:
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| The North American Free Trade Agreement
(NAFTA) (The
NAFTA Agreement):
 | Export.Gov {see also: the
NAFTA Regional
Database,
rules
of/documenting origin,
preference criteria, tariffs, etc.; (USDOC,
ITA). See also the
fact sheet and
benefits for agricultural goods and
updates;
United States Department
of Agriculture (USDA)}. |
| NAFTA Secretariat {See also, the
links
to individual government agencies; The NAFTA Secretariat}. |
|
US Customs &
Border Protection {importing
and exporting among NAFTA nations. Information on advance rulings,
Annex 401, appeals, certificate of origin, etc;
US Customs & Border Protection (CBP)}. |
|
US Trade Representative {the agreement, market access reports and more;
US Trade Representative}. |
|
| Organization of American
States (OAS) {organization
information, full text of trade and investment agreements and
statistics, as well as information on dispute settlement procedures}.
|
| Americas
{Except the United States. Background Notes
and other State Department publications;
United States Department of State}.
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| Asia:
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| Europe:
| European Business Directory
{search by name, keyword, or browse by industry: agriculture,
energy, food, metallurgy, paper, printing, rubber, telecommunications,
textiles, wood, vehicles... Addresses, contact information, web sites, etc.}. |
| Eastern Europe, Central Europe and Former Soviet
Republics:
|
|
The European Union
(EU) {organization history and institution information.
See especially AT-A-GLANCE;
see also
EUROSTAT
(EU publication lists).
|
|
EU business news {information
on the EU. See the company
directory}.
|
|
Doing
business in the EU {Europa}. |
| European
Committee for Standardization (CEN).
|
| EU Crime: Europol
{some statistics, mostly text, but see also
Europol
and the EU; and
other partners}. and
The European Institute for Crime
Prevention and Control. |
| EU Industries:
Airbus, Ariane Space Program,
European Space Agency, and Eurocopter. |
| EU product classification systems:
CPV {Download
CPV in a Excel files)
"EN" = English version. The
CPV, the Common Procurement Vocabulary, is a coding system used by the European Union
in public procurement transactions used to group together the products of
similar producers;
NACE
{Nomenclature générale des activités économiques dans les Communautés européennes,
or NACE codes represent the statistical classification of economic activities within the
European Union which serves as a basis for compiling statistics on the production, factors of production
(labor, raw materials, energy, etc.), fixed capital formation operations and financial operations of firms and other
entities. See also
MS Word or PDF files of
NACE, Revision 1; Companies Registration Office)}.
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| EURO: See the
European
Commission
and
European Central Bank
(ECB) sites (especially
the
statistics and
statistical data warehouse pages)
{European Commission}.
European Bank for Reconstruction and
Development (EBRD). |
| European
Patent Office {European
patents; Convention on the Grant of European Patents (EPC)/European
Patent Organization (EPO)}. |
|
Transatlantic
Business Dialogue (see also the TBD for small business, the Transatlantic
Small Business Initiative) |
| U.S. Mission to the EU
{see also the
United States Commercial
Service information}.
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| Middle East: (see also OPEC under Economic
Regional Groupings, below).
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ECONOMIC REGIONAL
GROUPINGS (i.e., where the group spans continents and the focus of the
organization is on economic issues. Or, the basis of the grouping is based
upon relative economic well-being -- relative to other nations). The World Bank
classifies countries by level of development, indebtedness, and geographic
region (for a list of countries in each category, click <here>):
Date of Ev-In site creation:
September 15, 1996.
Date of last update of Ev-In web pages: June 1 2013.
Date of last hyperlink check of Ev-In web pages: June 20, 2013.
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