International Marketing: Marketing

How to find a strategic partner in your country of choice. Also has links on: Information and Counseling; Strategy and Planning; Market Research and Due Diligence; Advertising and Promotional Events; Market Entry and Expansion; Advocacy and Dispute Resolution and much more.

"A catalog-magazine available free of charge through U.S. Embassies/Consulates and worldwide trading partners. It is estimated that the magazine has 400,000 readers in 176 countries. Exporters are able to advertise their products and services by calling Associated Business Publications International (1-800-581-8533), by visiting their website, or by contacting a local

Department of Commerce: U.S. Export Assistance Centers".

"Provides details of products and services of U.S. companies. Firms may register their profiles for free by visiting the Export Yellow Pages website."

"This is available through the U.S. Commercial Service. Trade specialists will translate your company profile into the local language, display marketing materials, collect sales leads from possible buyers and assist you with any follow-up activities. For more information and access to the service you can contact Export Promotion Services at (202) 482-3973."

"In the Trade Leads section of the globalEDGE resource desk, a number of sites for finding trade leads are listed, along with a brief description of each site. Depending on the product you intend to export, or the region to which you intend to export, you may be able to find a trade lead site tailored to your specific product or region. Additionally, the site descriptions indicate whether a particular site is a free service, or if there is a fee associated with use."

"Distributor™ is designed to aid your company in identifying the best distributor or agent to use specific to your product and market characteristics when opening up to new markets."

"Partner™ is an interactive tool that will assist you in evaluating and comparing a variety of potential international venture partners (also known as strategic alliances, collaborative ventures, and coalitions). This tool highlights critical factors that need to be considered when finding the most suitable candidate for your organization. Partner™ is useful for, but by no means limited to, companies new to international partnerships. The tool can also be used in the reevaluation of your existing relationships. Prospective partners (or existing ones) are assessed on preferred partner-related and task-related criteria."

"Country data on demographics, economy, communications and defense."

"Contain information and statistical data for 201 countries around the world, including Country Commercial Guides, World Bank Doing Business Indicators, and other country profile data."

"A ranking of countries classified as emerging markets (by the Economist Magazine). The MPI ranks countries and eight different dimensions: market size, market growth rate, market intensity, market consumption capacity, commercial infrastructure, economic freedom, market receptivity and country risk."

"A listing of resources that may assist you with market research in various countries and regions around the world."

"A listing of country or region specific statistical database resources that can aid in market research."

"Worldwide demographic data updated every two years; done by the U.S. Census Bureau."

"Statistics on exchange rates, money and banking, production, government finance, and interest rates." Numerous sources of data can be found here.

"Has data on more than 550 commodities for more than 200 countries and territories on economic and social subjects."

"Provides demographics, GDP and average growth rates for every country. WDI contains economic and social indicators for countries."

"This page has background information, resources, trade statistics and more information on many industries."

"This is the standardized system for product classification. The Export.gov “Harmonized System” page describes the system, its uses, and how to obtain both your HS and Schedule B numbers."

"This is the standardized system for industry categorization. On the NAICS page, enter a keyword in the NAICS search box to retrieve a list of possible industries for your business. From this list, you may select the industry that most closely describes your business, and click on that industry’s NAICS code for a more detailed description."

"This section helps U.S exporters to network and promote their company. There is also a searchable trade list that includes all official trade missions and events sponsored by the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Users are able to search the trade list by country, state, industry, event type and date."

"Lists various trade shows and events. All events can be filtered to how global, country specific or regional specific trade events."

"Lists statistics on trade data. Many different data sources are available online, such as exports from U.S. metropolitan areas, export-related jobs, and top trading partners."

"Provides U.S. trade statistics at both national and state levels. Users can retrieve, visualize, analyze, print and download trade data. The website is updated regularly as new trade information becomes available."

"Provides general U.S. trade information such as Trade Highlights, Balance by Partner Country, Country/Product Trade, and State Trade Data."

"Provides U.S. import and export statistics on a self-service and interactive format. The USITC DataWeb returns user-defined queries which allow both expert and non-expert users to create and save customized data."