9 January 2001. Revised 29 October 2004. Harvard Law School maintains this database of summaries of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from countries around the world. It contains information from 1974 to the present about population policies, reproductive rights and health, women's status and rights, children and adolescents, HIV/AIDS and related topics. You can browse the database by topic or search it by country, keyword or date. Results include the name of the relevant country, the title and date of the document, its source and a summary. If more information is available on the Web, the results also include a link to the source Web site. 18 December 2002. The Asian Law Centre of the University of Melbourne offers this bibliographic database of English language publications on Asian laws. It covers books, book chapters, journal articles and theses. Search by keyword, title, author, publication year, subject or country to find bibliographic references to published works and theses. 31 January 2001. The government of Canada along with two universities (one in the U.S., the other in Montreal) offer this collection of bilateral treaties established between the United States and Canada from 1783 to 1997. Researchers may search the collection, browse it by subject category, or retrieve treaties by their citations. In addition to supplying the text of the treaties, the site offers its citation, date of enforcement, names of the officials who signed, and information about related documents. 24 September 2003. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) offers this database of documents issued by the General Assembly, the Commission on Human Rights and the Sub-Commission on the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights. Browse by entity, country, mandate, subject or other criteria to find full-text documents. Documents are available in English, French or Spanish. 25 August 2003. This advocacy Web site provides news and other information about the International Criminal Court (ICC) and its ratification status in countries worldwide. Find an archive of official statements concerning the International Criminal Court, existing and sample legislation implementation legislation, publications, key documents and more. 17 December 2003. The Venice Commission, also known as the European Commission for Democracy through Law, provides access to a database called CODICES, which contains summaries of constitutional case law around the world. Its print counterpart is the Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law. Searching the database requires familiarity with Folio. However, the database provides a detailed subject index that you can browse. Database content is available in French and English. 26 July 2001. The Economist offers country profiles including articles published in its journal, links to Web sites useful for conducting research about the country, and links to important articles appearing in other news sources. The profiles offer the usual data about a country including its political and economic structure, economic data, political and economic outlook, population statistics, currency (including a converter), trade, taxation, and more. 4 December 2001. The U.S. Department of Commerce offers the current edition of Country Commercial Guides. The reports provide an overview of a country's business and investment environment. They also offer economic, political, and market information. For older versions of these Guides, see the U.S. State Department Web site. 1 October 2003. Be aware: This Web site contains historical material. The Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress reproduces segments of its Country Studies/Area Handbook Series, published between 1986 and 1998. It includes information about the politics, economics, geography, foreign policies and demographics of about 102 countries. Originally published for the U.S. Department of the Army, the program is no longer funded. It does provide, however, historical information of potential interest. 9 September 2004. The International Committee of the Red Cross makes available two databases on international humanitarian law. The Treaty Database contains about 100 treaties on International Humanitarian Law, commentaries on the Geneva Conventions and Additional Protocols as well as an up-to-date list of signatories. The National Implementation Database provides access to documentation and commentaries concerning the implementation of international humanitarian law at national level. 30 September 2002. This database contains the official documentation of the World Trade Organization, including the legal texts of the WTO agreements. Search or browse background papers on a variety of topics, agreements, ministerial decisions, protocols, understandings, and other legal documents, and more. Coverage extends back to 1995, and selectively back to 1986. 20 November 2001. A Web site of The Economist Intelligence Unit, ebusinessforum.com offers several goodies to researchers interested in the electronic business practices of companies doing business abroad. Find a "Doing ebusiness in ..." database that provides current news, market profiles, ebusiness rankings, and more. The market profiles include information about a country's business-related taxes, laws and regulations, infrastructure, ebusiness marketplace, and economy.
The "best practice" channel offers case studies concerning the ebusiness strategies of select companies or industries. The "research" channel offers market trends, business strategies, executive surveys and benchmarks, and a collection of Web-based resources. 13 March 2001. Revised 16 January 2004. Operated jointly by the Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), ECOLEX provides access to environmental law documents worldwide. Find treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions and law and policy literature. Search results provide abstracted bibliographic information about these documents. 4 December 2001. The U.S. State Department provides Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade Practices. These offer an analysis of the economic policies and trade practices of countries with which the United States has significant economic or trade relationships. The site maintains an archive back to 1993. 19 June 2001. Subtitled "Your site for cross-border ecommerce complaints," econsumer.gov offers information about consumer protection laws and agencies in several countries. It also provides an online form for filing a complaint against a business operating in another country. 5 August 2003. Revised 29 October 2004. A project of the American Society of International Law, EISIL serves as a portal to sources of international law. Sources are grouped into broad categories, such as general international law, human rights, criminal law, communications and transport, use of force, international air, space and water, environmental law, dispute settlement, and more. You can also search the EISIL database by keyword. Special features let you display (or disable the display of) descriptive information about a source. If you click the "more information" link, you will find a check box for saving the full bibliographic record. You can then print, download or email the list of saved records. 5 March 2001. The law firm, Simmons & Simmons, offers a collection of documents and information on various legal topics. Find checklists on commercial contracts, e-commerce, mergers & acquisitions, and other topics; summaries of case law, commentary, and other information pertaining to alternative dispute resolution, China & Hong Kong, confidentiality & privacy, and other topics; a weekly summaries of the activities of the European Commission, Council of Ministers, European Parliament and Courts of Justice; summaries of European Union and United Kingdom regulatory and legislative developments in the field of communications; annotated links to Web-based resources, and more. 19 June 2002. The law firm Baker & McKenzie compiles legal resources pertaining to electronic signatures and transactions. These include commentary and primary sources of U.S. state law and the laws of various foreign countries, as well as, uniform laws, conventions and treaties. 21 October 2002. Revised 28 September 2007. European Environmental Law offers a database containing "the full text of the most relevant decisions, including those delivered by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the Court of First Instance (CFI), the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR), the International Court of Justice (ICJ), the World Trade Organisation (WTO), the International Tribunal on the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), and some national courts." You can search the database by keyword, case number, parties, decision date, or environmental sector. The cases I retrieved appeared in full-text in English and with a note indicating the original language of the case.
23 October 2000. Revised 1 November 2007. Established by the European Commission during 2001, the European Judicial Network facilitates judicial cooperation between Member States and it improves access to justice for individuals and firms in Europe. To this end, the Web site
explains how the network works, including relevant legal procedures.
The European Judicial Atlas in Civil Matters provides access to information on judicial cooperation in civil matters. Within each category, there is an explanation of the law as well as the text of relevant primary documents. Revised 3 October 2000. Mirela Roznovschi, New York University School of Law Library, authors another guide published by LLRX.com. She provides sage advice about judging the quality of data offered by foreign or international legal databases. The article includes examples. 5 August 2003. The Northwestern University Library provides a collection of links to the official Web sites of national governments. Listed alphabetically by foreign government, many entries include the Web site of the national government as well as its agencies, legislative and judicial bodies. 6 September 2005. The U.S. Census Bureau offers several publications for finding statistics on foreign trade. This Web page provides access to relevant press releases, exporter profiles, data on U.S. trade in goods (published jointly with the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis), and Federal Register notices and rule-makings. 11 May 2005. A joint effort between the Stanford University Libraries and the World Trade Organization, the site provides information and documents related to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). You may browse or search the collection. Initial results provide the publication number, title, publication date and language. Languages available include English, French and Spanish. Displaying or downloading a full text document requires registering with the site and logging in. 10 October 2000. Find English translations of the banking laws of several countries including Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Czech Republic, European Union, Germany, Indonesia, Latvia, New Zealand, Russia, Singapore, Slovak Republic, South Africa, and Tunisia. 19 June 2002. Revised 25 June 2007. Appears to be an abandoned Web site. The law firm Baker & McKenzie offers an email alert service, with accompanying searchable Web archive, covering U.S., foreign, and international legal developments in the areas of electronic commerce, intellectual property, telecommunications, jurisdiction, and privacy. 18 June 2002. Baker & McKenzie offers a twice monthly news alert covering employment law issues worldwide. To receive the email alert and obtain access to the Web-based searchable archive, you will have register (free) at the site. Also available to registered users is a knowledge base of longer articles. 23 May 2002. Click "enter," which appears in the lower right-hand corner of the page to begin. The World Bank and various organizations team to provide this database of articles and other materials in the area of insolvency and debtor creditor systems. Select a country to find an overview of the law, and when available, statistics, statutes, rules, forms, and more. The database is currently in development. 21 December 2001. This non-profit non-governmental organization offers information and audio and video clips pertaining to health and human rights issues. Find a linked annotated bibliography of databases covering health and human rights issues, links and bibliographic information about human cloning and germ-line engineering policies worldwide, as well as a PowerPoint presentation on database sources of health and human rights information. Hosted by the Library of Congress, GLIN comprises a database of laws, regulations and other related documents contributed by the governments of member nations. The database contains 1) the full text of documents in the official language of the country, 2) summaries in English and 3) thesauri in English and all other languages represented in the database. 3 October 2001. The Burns School of Real Estate and Construction Management at the University of Denver offers a database of country profiles with a focus on real estate issues. Compare the real estate property issues or trends of up to five countries. Profiles include information about the country's geography, history, people, government, economy, transportation, and communication, as well as a summary of real estate issues and trends, and cultural issues. Each profile also provides additional references. 23 July 2002. Formerly known as the International Business Resources Index, the site serves as a portal to international business information. Find summaries of the business climate, political structure, history, and statistical data for more than 190 countries as well as a directory of international business resources, a study on market potential indicators for emerging markets, and a glossary of terms and acronyms used for international business. 18 April 2005. The Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law maintains a number of research guides on foreign and international law issues. Written by librarians specializing in foreign or international law, the guides help researchers find legal information relevant to a particular country. They outline the political structure and legal system, and when available, link to primary sources (mostly) of information. The guides currently cover Brazil, Georgia, China, Germany, Lithuania, Nigeria, Spain, small jurisdictions in Europe, Italy and South Africa. There is also a guide on the harmonization of international commercial law. 23 May 2000. Revised 17 January 2003. Mirela Roznovschi, New York University School of Law, maintains this excellent collection of international and foreign law databases. Look for databases by topic, jurisdiction, or type. Also, don't miss her article and checklists for evaluating the content for foreign law databases. Marci Hoffman, international law librarian at Georgetown University Law Center, offers this comprehensive research guide to some of the best Internet resources for finding international trade law and related information. 23 October 2007. Revised 25 October 2007. Jointly prepared by the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Inter-Parliamentary Union, this handbook is the product of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. According to the introductory text, "preparation of the Handbook benefited from an editorial review board consisting of parliamentarians, academics and practitioners - many of whom are persons with disabilities.... [It] aims to assist parliamentarians and others in efforts to realize the Convention so that persons with disabilities can achieve the transition from exclusion to equality." 14 February 2008. The International Labour Organization (ILO) offers this guide to finding sources of legal information at the ILO library. The guide comprises 2 summaries of resources available - one on international law and the other on national law. Each presents relevant titles with descriptions that include information about where to find the titles. Each guide also links to relevant databases (look for these on the right-hand side of the page). 18 February 2003. HUman Rights DOCumentation, by the European Convention on Human Rights, provides access to case law on international human rights issues. Available in French and English, the free database enables searching by type of document (e.g., judgment, admissibility decision, merit or execution resolution), keyword, or a variety of other criteria. The site provides extensive help documentation, as well as a simpler alternate search interface. 25 July 2002. This database contains International Labour Organization (ILO) conventions and recommendations, ratification information, comments, representations, complaints, interpretations, General Surveys, and other related documents. 25 April 2002. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) offers this handy chart, containing links to the full text, of income tax treaties. The chart shows the country and the year the treaty was signed. It also provides links to the text of the treaty as well as to an IRS technical explanation. 7 June 2000. A project of the European Commission DG Enterprise, with partners who include the patent law firm Cohausz Hannig Dawidodowicz & Partner, Dusseldorf, Germany, this Web site educates readers about intellectual property issues. It also offers a monthly newsletter covering copyright, trademark, and patent issues. The newsletter reports on litigation, patents, and other relevant events. While it focuses on the law and news taking place in the European Community, it also covers many items of interest to U.S. IP lawyers.
Buried within the site is information about, or the text of, intellectual property laws in European Union countries. Find, for example, the IP laws of Austria, Belgium, France, Denmark, Italy, the United Kingdom, and several other countries. This section also offers a list of registered agents for most EU countries and the text of relevant treaties and other international agreements.
2 April 2002. Register (free) to access this interactive database by the U.S. International Trade Commission. It provides import and export data based on selected criteria. Discover, for example, total value (dollars) of imports from, or exports to, a specific country. Or create lists of imports or exports by country; for instance, list the value of medical device imports by country. 9 March 2006. The U.S. Department of State provides introductory information about international adoptions. It links to a more extensive brochure that outlines the role of the State Department, informs about U.S. requirements and applying for immigration visas, and more. You will also find links to related international legal documents and information. 21 August 2000. Wayne A.Selcher, Professor of International Studies, Elizabethtown College, offers this index of Web sites for international news and information. This extensive collection facilitates finding quality resources by country, organization, media source, or topic. Resources include brief descriptions. 15 August 2002. The Office of Policy and International Affairs of the U.S. Department of Energy offers a database containing information on bilateral and multilateral agreements between the United States and other countries. Find bilateral and multilateral agreements by country, subject, or keyword. It appears the database contains agreements pertaining to science or technology, but no documentation to this effect exists at the site. 9 March 2006. The U.S. Department of State provides introductory information about international abductions. It outlines the role of the State Department and links to related international legal documents and information. 9 September 2004. The Hague Conference on Private International Law provides a database of leading court decisions on the civil aspects of international child abduction. Search by a variety of criteria, including legal basis (subject index), court, party, keyword or other information. The information provided includes the full-text of the decision. Registration is required, although access is free or by donation. 3 March 2003. This site provides the full-text of English-language translations of constitutional documents from several countries. It also offers country information, as well as a list of countries the site does not cover. An introduction to each translation outlines the development of the constitution in that country and provides information about the translation. Country information includes information about the development of constitutional law and political parties. 18 April 2005. Established by the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Court has "jurisdiction to prosecute individuals responsible for the most serious crimes of international concern[, including] genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes." The Web site provides information about the structure of the court and its rules. It publishes the official records and documentation of the Assembly of States Parties. You will also find some court decisions and press releases concerning cases in certain areas; for instance, Uganda. 4 January 2001. The World Health Organization (WHO) offers the electronic version of International Digest of Health Legislation, which supercedes the print editions published from 1948 to 1999. The Digest contains English-language summaries of select national and international health legislation. When available, the abstracts also offer links to the text of documents. Moreover, a brief review of this resource found that it covers other types of legal documents as well, including regulations and guidance documents. 18 July 2002. Designed to supplement the multi-volume West publication by the same name, this site provides annotated resources by book chapter, links to treaties, links to major United Nations institutions, agencies, programs, and organizations, links to news stories for current information, and more. 27 June 2002. The Global Policy Forum, a public policy organization that monitors global policy making at the United Nations, provides commentary about issues pertaining to international justice. These include activities surrounding the International Criminal Court (comes into existence July 2002), The International Court of Justice, war crime tribunals, and the Alien Tort Claims Act. Washington State University professor, Ray August, offers this resource containing international legal terms, descriptions of international organizations, and links to official country pages. 12 May 2008. Comprised of 186 member countries, INTERPOL "facilitates cross-border police co-operation, and supports and assists all organizations, authorities and services whose mission is to prevent or combat international crime." The Web site provides news about international crime incidents, Red Notices or notices about fugitives "wanted by national jurisdictions (or the International Criminal Tribunals, where appropriate)," fact sheets, guides, annual reports and other publications, select databases and other electronic products (Red Notices, Stolen Works of Art) -- not all of which is available to the general public, and more. 6 March 2002. The International Trade Centre, LexUM of the Center for Research in Public Law at the University of Montreal and Juripole from the University of Nancy provide this database of legal information concerning international trade. Find international conventions, model laws, model contract clauses, World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements, as well as, legal documents pertaining to the Organization for the Harmonization in Africa of Business Law (OHADA). Many, although not all, of the documents are available in English, Spanish, and French. 13 July 2000. Use the pull-down menu to select a country and then enter a query to find Web pages of possible interest from the respective country. For example, I selected the Russian Federation and entered the query:
foreign investment laws
It retrieved several relevant documents (including Russian Federal Law "On Foreign Investment in the Russian Federation" No. 160-FZ dated July 9, 1999) in English published by the Municipal Investment Tender Commission.
International law research expert, Lyonette Louis-Jacques, offers this extensive and frequently updated guide to performing international law research. 25 July 2002. Maintained by the International Labour Organization (ILO), this database contains references to national laws on labour, social security, and related human rights. Some laws are available in full text. In addition to searching or browsing laws by subject or country, visitors may also review subject profiles on a handful of topics (freedom of association, equality, child labor, occupational safety and health, migrant workers, and seafarers). The site also offers a legislative bulletin that summarizes current entries in the database. 19 June 2002. The law firm Baker & McKenzie compiles legal resources pertaining to privacy and data protection issues. These include commentary and primary sources of U.S. state law and the laws of various foreign countries. Please note: As of this writing, the Pennsylvania page contains incorrect legal citations. The links lead to the Pennsylvania Code (codified state regulations) not to Pennsylvania statutes, as indicated. 28 April 2003. Provided by the Society of Professional Journalists, the Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions provides the full text of the Conventions as well as commentary and an alphabetical index of key terms, their definitions and where they appear in the Conventions. 11 May 2005. Created and maintained by the International & Foreign Law Department of the Georgetown University Law Library, this site organizes and annotates resources useful in conducting research on issues related to economics and international trade law. Topics include commercial arbitration, competition law, trade and development, economics, finance, international trade and more. It also annotates collections on international instruments, government documents and cases. This is a good starting point for international trade law research. Revised 17 January 2003. Jane Williams, University of Illinois College of Law, offers this useful guide to English language sources of foreign law. It covers individual countries as well as sources of law topics. The guide also includes sources not published on the Internet. 20 June 2002. John Marshall Law School professor David E. Sorkin offers easy access to U.S. federal and state, as well as European Union and other country, laws regarding mass email. The site covers both enacted laws and proposed legislation. 4 November 2004. The Human Rights Centre at Queen's University Belfast School of Law developed this database, which contains legislative texts and other information on states of emergency in Northern Ireland, China, El Salvadore, India, Malaysia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey and East Timor. The Centre plans eventually to cover all countries that have a declared or de facto state of emergency. Entries provide a general introduction to the nature of the conflict and information about emergency legislation. Other legal material, such as relevant sections of the country's constitution and court rulings are provided for some countries. 18 December 2002. GlobalCourts compiles a list of links to Supreme Court decisions in foreign countries. 10 January 2002. The U.S. International Trade Commission offers this database containing product descriptions and tariff rates from the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States. Search by keyword or HTS category number to find a brief description, data concerning recent U.S. imports for consumption, tariff treatment, and other information. 6 September 2005. The U.S. International Trade Commission provides information about the Harmonized Tariff Schedule (HTS) of the United States, which was enacted by Congress and made effective on January 1, 1989. The HTS replaces the former Tariff Schedules of the United States. Find the current Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States Annotated (PDF), an archive of annotations, a list of changes to the HTS, studies or proposed modifications to the HTS, a database of current tariffs, as well as links to Customs ports of entry and Customs rulings. 10 January 2002. The Trade Compliance Center of the International Trade Administration offers this database containing the text of, and information about, agreements between the United States and its trading partners. The agreements cover manufactured products and services. You may search the database by a variety of criteria including keywords or browse a list of all agreements. Special features facilitate finding NAFTA, the WTO agreements, and bilateral investment treaties. 26 January 2001. Sponsored by Oregon State University, this site currently offers two databases for discovering information about freshwater treaties and compacts. In the treaties database, find summaries or full text of water-related treaties. Data available includes treaty name, parties to the treaty, focus of the treaty, main basin, signature date, and other information. The compacts database covers 39 states. Data available includes compact name, participating states, focus of the compact, basin, resolution and other information. 1 October 2003. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) offers this database of documents issued by the committees established to monitor the implementation of the principal international human rights treaties. It contains all documents issued since 1992. Documents are available in English, French or Spanish. You may search by country as well as other criteria. The database also provides ratification status information. 14 December 2000. The United Nations Dag Hammarskjöd Library offers this database of UN voting records. Search by keyword or resolution symbol to find basic information about the voting on specific resolutions. Data includes resolution symbol, title, date of the vote, related documents, the vote, and agenda information. 28 October 2004. This UN research guide presents an overview of the types of documents and publications issued and explains how to find them. It suggests useful starting points and summarizes various indexes for finding UN documentation. It also covers the General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council. Special attention is given to topics on human rights, international law and peace-keeping. Revised 2 April 2002. The United Nations offers several of its publications, including the text of over 40,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties. Searchers may pay to access all the content and features of all the available databases, or they may search a portion of the databases for free.
The United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS) database contains treaties, international agreements and subsequent actions registered or recorded with the Secretariat. Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General offers the current status of treaty documents. New to the site, Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties provides the full-text of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General that have not yet been published in the United Nations Treaty Series.
Also find a Treaty Handbook ("a practical guide to the depositary practice of the Secretary-General and the registration practice of the Secretariat"), Depositary Notifications (CNs) by the Secretary-General, Monthly Statement of Treaties and International Agreements, and more. 17 December 2003. The Venice Commission, also known as the European Commission for Democracy through Law, provides information in English and French about the Commission and its publications. Researchers will find CODICES, a Commission publication that provides summaries of constitutional case law around the world. Its print counterpart is the Bulletin on Constitutional Case-Law. Also available in CD-ROM, the Web site provides database access. Searchers unfamiliar with Folio databases may find it difficult to use. Other primary documents, including opinions by the Commission, are also available at the site. The International Criminal Tribunal of Rwanda, in conjunction with the United Nations, offers this resource for judgments and decisions of the Tribunal. The site also offers select indictments, sentencing and verdict information, case summaries, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, the text of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, press releases, and radio news audio files. It appears the site may add hearing transcripts and arrest warrants in the future. 7 March 2000. The U.S. State Department offers this collection of "official texts, policy statements and interpretive material, features, and byline articles prepared daily by the U.S Department of State, International Information Programs." Locate items of interest by topic or region. The site also provides selected items in four other languages.
To search for older documents and commentary, enter the Archives. Researchers may query the archive in three different languages.
19 August 2004. The BBC offers a special report on the constitution of the European Union, which was agreed on in Brussels on 18 June 2004. It provides the full-text of the constitution in PDF as well as brief commentary about its provisions. The commentary covers the powers of the EU, division of responsibilities, decision making, qualified majority voting, the president and foreign minister, foreign and defense policy, reform, the European Parliament, fundamental rights, legal supremacy and leaving the EU. 22 July 2003. A global legal research facility comprised of several organizations, World LII offers numerous databases containing legal documents and information from several countries. The site consists of three parts: Databases, Catalogs and Websearch. Databases provides a single search interface for several Legal Information Institutes, including Australasian, British and Irish, Canadian, Hong Kong, Pacific Islands, Wits University School of Law and Cornell. The databases provide access to case law, treaties, legislation and other legal information. Catalogs offers links to law-related Web sites for all countries. Websearch makes many of the sites appearing in the catalog searchable. 28 February 2000. Targeting "the international Internet user; [e.g.,] immigrants, émigrés, students, international businesspersons and tourists, WorldSkip.com indexes valuable information about virtually any country. Select any country from the pull-down list associated with its continent to retrieve immediately a collection of links pertaining to news about the country and information about its economy, government, and tourism. Find gems like doing business guides, a link to the country's stock exchange, trade regulations, the U.S. embassy and consular services, visa information as well as information about getting around the country, and current news. |
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