TOPIC GUIDE : INTERNATIONAL TRADE

Books  

In the catalogue use these Subject Heading searches to find library materials on international trade.  Many of these headings have additional subcategories of interest:

Encyclopedias

• Reinert, K. A., & Rajan, R. S. (Eds.). (2009). The Princeton encyclopedia of the world economy. Princeton : Princeton University Press.
• Clark Northrup, C. (Ed.). (2005). Encyclopedia of world trade [electronic resource] : from ancient times to the present. Armonk, NY : Sharpe Reference.
• Wankel, C. (2009). Encyclopedia of business in today’s world [electronic resource]. Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c2009.
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Dictionaries

• Deardorff, A. V. (2006). Terms of trade : glossary of international economics. Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific. Alan Deardorff also mains a web version of this work.
• Goode, W. (2003. Dictionary of trade policy terms (4th ed.). Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
• Hinkelman, E. G. (2009). Glossary of international trade [electronic resource] : handbook of the global trade community (5th ed.). Petaluma, Calif. : World Trade Press.
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Theses  

Check research work completed at The University of Auckland in the following areas of international trade:

• Agreement on Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights
• Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC)
• Exports New Zealand
  
• Foreign trade New Zealand
• Free trade
• General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
• Import quotas
• Restraint of trade
• Tariffs
• Trade
• Trade liberalisation
• Trade regulation
• World Trade Organisation
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Where the library holds two print copies of a thesis, the first copy is for reference only and needs to be booked head of time. The second copy is available as a normal loan, but needs to be requested using the Intercampus request service. 

Selected Journals

Access these scholarly journals via the library catalogue:

• Journal of international trade and economic development focuses on international economics, economic development and the interface between trade and development
• Journal of world trade focuses on multilateral, regional, and bilateral trade negotiations, and anti-dumping and unfair trade practices issues
• World economy  focuses on trade policy issues both on a country basis, regionally and globally and issues such as exchange rates, IMF/World Bank, debt, environmental or other international issues as they relate to trade
• World trade review targets a wider audience of policy makers as well as the scholarly community. Covers economic, legal, political and inter-disciplinary perspectives on issues of relevance to the multilateral trading system

Explore further international trade journals held by the library:

• Foreign trade regulation Periodicals
• International trade Periodicals
• International economic relations Periodicals
• World Trade Organization Periodicals

Databases for journal articles 

International Trade issues in the media

• Newztext (The Knowledge Basket, NZ) - an archival database of full text news articles, mainly from Fairfax Media. Includes:
  • Daily news sources The New Zealand Herald, Dominion Post, scoop.co.nz (independent press release driven news, includes press releases from political parties, unions etc), Radio New Zealand news wires.
  • Weekly publication National Business Review
  • Not all articles from The New Zealand Herald are in Newztext - use Factiva for additional Herald articles
• National Business Review Online 24/7 - when currency matters, read the latest commentary on the NBR website
• Factiva (Dow Jones) - global news and business
  • Useful for Australasian topics as it covers national and regional newspapers in Australia and NZ as well as the Associated Press Newswires, ABC News, New York Times, The Guardian, EUR-Lex, scoop.co.nz.
  • Use as an alternative source for the full text of The New Zealand Herald
• ANZ Reference Centre (EBSCO) – another source for searching the 'popular' press.
  • Coverage - Australia and NZ magazines, newspapers, news wires. Includes The Australian, The Age (Melbourne), The Sydney Morning Herald, The New Zealand Herald

Journal Articles - Australasia

• Index New Zealand (National Library of NZ) - general coverage, not specific to business or economics
  • Indexes NZ journals from popular through to "academic", includes bibliographic references and abstracts to articles only. Do a serial title search in Voyager to check if a journal is held by the library.
• APA-FT (Informit) - full text version of Australian Public Affairs Information Service. Emphasis is given to current articles on Australian political and economic affairs but there are also articles, conference papers and book chapters concerning New Zealand
• AGIS Plus Text - an emphasis on legal topics

Journal Articles - International

• ABI/Inform
• Business Source Premier
• EconLit a leading resource for access to scholarly materials in the field of economics
• International political science abstracts
• PAIS covers political, social, and public policy issues, with emphasis on those that are or might become the subjects of legislation
• Scopus
• OECD iLibrary - access all materials published by the OECD

Organisations

New Zealand

• Ministry of Economic Development Trade remedies, Tariffs
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade
• New Zealand Customs Service
• New Zealand Trade and Enterprise

International

• World Trade Organisation - NEW 2009 use the interactive map to view trade disputes between member countries
• International Trade Centre
• EU External Trade 
• OECD Trade 
• Pacific Islands Trade and Invest   
• SICE Foreign Trade Information System
• UNCTAD - International Trade and Commodities
• World Bank - Trade
• Doha Development Round of trade negotiations: understanding the issues web page
• Web Resources for International Trade from the Federation of International Trade Associations, FITA.  "More than 4000 links to international trade resources are annotated and indexed".

See also International trade units and terms

Digital libraries

• GATT digital library: 1947-1994   from Stanford University Libraries & the World Trade Organization
• UNCTAD digital library on International Trade

Working papers 

• New Zealand Trade Consortium Working Papers. From 1999-2006 .
• OECD Trade Directorate. OECD Trade Policy Working Papers via the IDEAS website
• World Bank trade website includes working papers plus statistics including trade restrictiveness indices.

Trade agreements and trade blocs

New Zealand

• Finding information on New Zealand's trade negotiations
• New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade - Trade and economic relations includes tariff and import fee information, trade agreements and partnerships. Trade relations also includes trade agreements and partnerships. See also Select Committee reports on international treaties for information on trade agreements
• See also CER and ANZCERTA Australia New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement from the DFAT Australia,
• CER Independence Study 4 May 2004 on the MED site

Other

• Trade agreements - lists and links from GlobalEDGE
• Tuck Trade Agreements Database from the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth
• US free trade agreements - from Export.gov. See also the broader Trade and Related Agreements webpage

Asia Pacific Area

See Research Guide on the Trading Systems in the Asian-Pacific Region

• ACP EU trade 
• APEC Committee on Trade and Investment
• Cairns Group
• PACER Pacific Agreement on Closer Economic Relations
• PICTA  Pacific Islands Countries Trade Agreement
• PACER & PICTA on Bilaterals.org
• SPARTECA South Pacific Trade and Economic Co-Operation Agreement
• Trans-Pacific Strategic Economic Partnership (Trans-Pacific SEP)

See also the Wikipedia for 

• Trade blocs
• Free Trade Area

Trade barriers 

• Market access database from the DG Trade, European Commission.
• National trade estimate report on foreign trade barriers  (Office of the United States Trade Representative)
  (Open up each year to access the relevant NTE report). There are individual country reports with the emphasis on how a country's legislation may affect US exports.

Trade policies 

• Trade policy reviews (WTO). For each country, the Secretariat reports usually have chapters on the economic environment, trade policy regime, trade policies and practices, and trade policies by sector. There is also a policy statement from the respective Government. There are print copies shelved in the General Library on Level 1 at 382.3 T77
• New Zealand Foreign Policy Research Archive includes articles on trade policy

Tariff  

• New Zealand Ministry of Economic Development  Tariffs
• New Zealand Customs Service. The Working Tariff Document of New Zealand
• Tariff and tax information (US TIC) by country
• Tariff Information Center (USITC)
• Tariffs and Rules of Origin in APEC Member Economies
• Data on trade and import barriers (World Bank)
• Harmonized tariff schedule of the United States. (ITC)
• Hemispheric trade and tariff database for market access (FTAA)
• Interactive tariff and trade dataweb (USITC)
• Inventory of tariffs and trade data. OECD Directorate for Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
• Tariff barriers. The print copy of the World Development Indicators S1/WBG DEVi has table 6.6 tariff barriers by country for all products, primary products and manufactured products. The data usually includes a simple mean tariff % and a weighted mean tariff %
• US Customs and Border Protection Imports, Duty rates/HTS

See also

• Finding tariff and tax information - useful guide with links from the US Department of Commerce, Trade and Information Center 

Trade Data  

• OECD Monthly Statistics of International Trade - available fulltext within OECDiLibrary
  Track recent trends in trading patterns for OECD countries with the rest of the world. Data are broken down by economic groupings, country and region, and include seasonally adjusted series as well as calculated indicators. The series cover data for the last eight months, four quarters and two years.
• Refer to the Subject Guides: Trade Data webpage for library databases and internet sites covering New Zealand and international trade data materials

See also

• Trade Data Online produced by Industry Canada, this website allows you to quickly find trade data flows for Canada and the US to over 200 countries. You can limit results to the 25 products

Trade classifications

• Statistical Classification Manuals available from Glasgow University Library
• New Zealand harmonised system classification, 2007. Print copy of 2002 edition shelved at S2/NZ CLAth 2007.

CGE Model   

• Global models information paper from the World Bank
• Global Trade Analysis Project at the Center for Global Trade Analysis, Purdue University

Trade law 

• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law 
• Lex Mercatoria Links to international trade law, treaties
• International trade law guide from NYU