Keeping track of the trade negotiations shaping the world.
3/10/2003
More and more, trade around the world is being defined, codified, and implemented through a series of negotiations between nations, and this four-year-old site is a centralized information resource on those negotiations. Created by the Center for International Development at Harvard University, information includes trade news culled from newspapers and other news sources across the globe. But the heart of this resource is the "Issue Areas" section, which provides overviews on some twenty matters of interest facing global decision makers including anti-dumping, government procurement, intellectual property, regionalism, and transparency. Each of these topics is punctuated with a discussion of recent events and includes research papers and links to additional resources. The site does not advocate specific trade policies or support any particular ideology. "Rather, as an academic resource, it offers an objective entry point to the many trade-related resources on the Internet," according to the site.