Foreign and Commonwealth Office: United Kingdom
http://www.fco.gov.uk/
travel/*
Description: The United Kingdom's Foreign and Commonwealth Office provides information on trade, travel, foreign news, foreign policy themes and consular data.
Comments: Good site for Model United Nations and International Relations research.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

InfoNation
http://www.un.org/
Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/
infonation/e_infonation.htm
Description: This site allows the user to select to click on a part of the world and find demographic and economic information in a searchable database.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Japan Export and Trade Organization (JETRO Homepage)
http://www.jetro.go.jp./
Description: JETRO's homepage is a nonprofit organization whose goals are to promote better trade and economic relations with other nations. It details how business is done in Japan including business card customs.
Comments: This site may also have implications for comparative government and world history students.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

National Security Institute
http://www.nsi.org/
Description: The Institute maintains advice to Americans traveling and doing business in the world. It has links to U.S. Terrorism laws and advice issued by the government. It has links to consular data on all countries.
Comments: Good research site for Model United Nations and International Studies students.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

Trade Port
http://www.tradeport.org/
Description: This site requires the user to register. It is a free service, which gives international trade advice, export trade data. It uses extensive tables to display data. There are also world and California news stories.
Comments: This site is Commerce Department sponsored with private funds.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

United Nations Environment Program Homepage
http://www.unep.ch/
Description: The United Nation's Environment homepage has conventions/treaties on the aspects of the environment. It has a wealth of data on global resources and international trade aspects of these resources.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

United Nations Headquarters
http://WWW.UN.ORG/*
Description: The United Nations homepage has information on the international organizations, global issues, world documents and other international and contemporary issues.
Comments: This site is also good for international economic issues and comparative government issues.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
 

United States Department of Commerce: International Trade Administration
http://www.ita.doc.gov/
Description: This U. S. Government site contains information on trade events, export programs, trade news, trade statistics and much more.
Comments: Good resource for students and teachers on international trade.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
 

1996 Country Reports on Economic Policy and Trade
http://www.state.gov/www/
issues/economic/
trade_reports/96_toc.html
Description: These reports, developed by the U.S. Department of State for Congress, provide information on 77 countries with which America trades. The reports contain Key Economic Indicators and other information important for business and setting economic policy.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
 

Asia, Inc. Online
http://www.asia-inc.com/
index.html
Description: Here is excellent economic news from the Asia, Inc. magazine with news on the Asia stock markets and business activities.
Comments: Asia, Inc. requests that you register when you use the online service.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High

Fixitup Faucet Company's Overseas Move
Viewable on the CTAP 
1999 CDROM
*As Assistant to the Undersecretary of Commerce of a country abroad, you have received a letter from the Fixitup Faucet Company asking if your country is the best one in which to locate one of its manufacturing plants. You know your boss would want you to jump at the chance to build up the economy. Research the factors about your country which would make this investment by the faucet company a good one. Create a business brochure and make a presentation to the Faucet Company's Board of Directors.
Author: Judy Harris & Edy Jacobson
 

Latin America Marketing Project
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/latinmarketing/*
You are part of a team of marketing experts that has been hired by a major American fast food company to study the feasibility of selling their product in Latin America. Each marketing team will to investigate a different product and Latin American country. Your group will then make an oral presentation to the C.E.O. and recommend whether your company should enter the Latin American market.
Author: Madeline Antilla and J. DeMonet
 

Seeking a Balance in International Trade: Pacific Rim Import-Export Transactions
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/
activity/tradebal/index.html*
From the purchasing department of Pacific Rim Trading Company, one of the growing number of internationally focused California businesses, students must make a profitable trade deal. They select products for import and export and create strategies to buy and sell their products in another country. To be successful they must cope with fluctuations in currencies and other global factors which influence trade. 
Author: Robert O'Connor
 

Limiting Trade
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/
lessons/feoga.htm*
Why do nations choose to limit trade? Learn about the different ways to restrict trade and the effects of each of these restrictions, including who benefits and who is hurt by tarrifs.
Author: Focus on Economics: Geography
 

Mock Organization of American States Conference
http://ladb.unm.edu/retanet/
plans/soc/oas.html*
As diplomats from Latin American countries you come to the conference of the Organization of American States with a resolution to present to your fellow ambassadors that addresses a current critical issue/interest of your country.
Author: Barbara Trujillo
 

U.S.-Japan Trade Simulation
http://www.diplomatsonline.org/
lessons/lesson1.html*
Students research a variety of factors that influence U.S.-Japan trade and identify products and services in their own states that would be suitable for export to Japan; then prepare an economic white paper that could inform any real or hypothetical decision to export to Japan. Through the research necessary to perform the required tasks, students will encounter primary resources that affect trade policy as well as useful information on Japanese society, etiquette, and business practices that will give them a better understanding of U.S.-Japan trade.
 

Why Nations Trade
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/
lessons/FEOG1.htm*
What is comparative advantage and what are the benefits of trade? Learn the answer to these quesitons and more through this simulation. 
Author: Focus on Economics