The United States Foreign Trade Policy and the WTO: A Dossier

Links

U.S. Government

• Office of the U.S. Trade Representative
• U.S. Department of Commerce
• U.S. Department of Agriculture: Foreign Agricultural Service
• U.S. Customs Service
• U.S. Department of State: Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs,
• U.S. Department of State: Office of Defense Trade Controls,
• Export Import Bank of the United States
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• U.S. International Trade Commission
• U.S. Small Business Administration: Office of International Trade
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: International Information

International Organisations

• Asia-Pacific Economic Co-Operation (APEC): Asian Regional cooperation organization
• Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
• International Labour Organization (ILO): U.N. Agency
• NAFTA: Secretariat of the North American Free Trade Agreement
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

Universities and Think tanks

• The Cato Institute
: Free-market think-tank
• Center for Strategic & International Studies (CSIS)
: Trade and Economics page
• Cordell Hull Institute
: Independent think tank
• The American Enterprise Institute (AEI)
: Free-market think-tank
• The Brookings Institution
: Global Economics
• The Brookings Institution
: Politics of Trade
• The Globalisation Institute
: Think tank which develops practical, enterprise-based policies on trade, development, environment and technology.
• The Heritage Foundation
: Trade and Economic Freedom
• University of California at Berkeley: Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy
• University of North Carolina--Charlotte: Virtual International Business & Economic Sources
• University of Georgia: Center for International Trade and Security

NGO's

• Alliance for Responsible Trade: National network of labor, family-farm, religious, women's, environmental, development and research organizations.
• AlterNet: Project of the Independent Media Institute dedicated to strengthening and supporting independent and alternative journalism.
• Center for Economic and Policy Research: CEPR was established to promote democratic debate on the most important economic and social issues that affect people’s lives.
• Choike: Portal dedicated to improving the visibility of the work done by NGOs from the South.
• CorpWatch: Counters corporate led globalization with organizing, information and networking.
• Fair Trade Watch: Developed by the AFL-CIO, this site provides information on trade and the global economy from a worker's perspective.
• Friends of the Earth U.S. "Greening Trade":Largest grassroots environmental federation in the world aiming to protect the environment and to create sustainable societies.
• International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development: Information, analysis, sources and links to empower stakeholders in trade policy to influence the international trade system such that it advances the goal of sustainable development
• Oxfam's Make Trade Fair site: A site on Oxfam International's campaign on global trade governance.
• Third World Network: Independent non-profit international network of organizations and individuals involved in issues relating to development, the Third World and North- South issues.
• Trade Aid Aotearoa/New Zealand: New Zealand's only alternative trading organization has been campaigning on social, economic and environmental justice issues for 30 years.
• Trade Justice Movement:The Trade Justice Movement is a group of organizations in the UK who are concerned with the negative impact of international trade rules on the poorest people in the world.
• Trade Observatory: A Resource Center from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Women's Edge Coalition: Women's Edge Coalition's mission is to advocate international economic policies and human rights that support women worldwide in ending poverty in their lives, communities and nations.