National Trade Data Bank

While probably not of much interest to academic economists, this site pulls together a very wide range of information (more than a gigabyte) from more than 25 U.S. government agencies that will be of interest to firms wishing to export from the U.S. Obviously, it contains a substantial amount of material that may be of interest to those interested in non-U.S. countries. One can even search the entire database with natural language requests.

• ftp://ftp.stat-usa.gov:/pub/NTDB
• http://www.stat-usa.gov/BEN/Topics/TradePromo.html
• gopher://sunny.stat-usa.gov:70/11/NTDB
• Gopher:
  • direct: gopher.stat-usa.gov/National Trade Data Bank
  • indirect: USA/Washington D.C./U.S. Commerce Department's Economics and Statistics Administration Gopher
  • bookmark: Type=1+ Name=National Trade Data Bank Path=1/NTDB Host=sunny.stat-usa.gov Port=70