Electronic Sources

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Internet

There are many sites on the Internet which focus on trade and trade-related issues. Listed below is a sampling of some of the sites available. Many of these sites link to many other sites. Keep in mind some of the problems with the Internet: there is no authority control, no general indexing, and materials may disappear the next time you use the site. If you cite to something on the Web, be sure to include the URL and the date.

• U.S. Dept. of Commerce
• Canada Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade- NAFTA information
• CATO Center for Trade Policy Studies
• Cornell Law School LII -- International Trade Law Materials
• EISIL (Electronic Information System for International Law)
• Global Trade Negotiations
• Global Environment and Trade Study (GETS)
• Juris International
• Lex Mercatoria
• Institute for International Economics
• International Trade Administration
• LANIC- NAFTA Resources
• Mexico Online
• NAFTA Secretariat
• National Law Center for Free Inter-American Trade (UCB only for some of the materials). To access from home, be sure to set the proxy settings on your browser. Once the proxy settings have been set, you will be prompted for your CALNET user id and passphrase.
• Organization of American States Trade Unit
• Pace University, UN Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG)
• Trade and Commercial Relations Treaties (Fletcher Multilaterals Project)
• Trade and Related Agreements (U.S. Department of Commerce)
• UNCITRAL  
• U.S. International Trade Commission
• U.S.- Mexico Chamber of Commerce
• Trade Resources
• U.S. Trade Representative
• World Bank
• WTO Watch  
• World Trade Organization
• WorldTradeLaw.net (some portions are for UCB only)

Prepared by Marci Hoffman, International and Foreign Law Librarian, UC Berkeley Law Library, January 2004.