AGRICULTURAL PERFORMANCE IN THE ECONOMY SECTOR

Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE)

National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INEC)

National Financial Corporation (CFN)

Ministry of Agriculture of Peru

Ecuadorian Customs Corporation

Chamber of Industries of the Guayas province

Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Ecuadorian Exporters' Federation

Chamber of Commerce of Quito

Surveys' Commission for the Development of the Guayas River Basin (CEDEGE)

AGRIPAC S.A. - (Agricultural Chemical Inputs)

ECUAQUIMICA - (Ecuadorian Company of Chemicals)

Agricultural Innovation Nacional System (SNIA) 

Information for the field

The Regional Fund for Agricultural Technology

Agriculture by internet

Agricultural informative

Autonomous National Institute of Agricultural Research (INIAP)

Commercial technical information

Andean Development Corporation (CAF)

The agricultural sector in your hands

The FAO in Latin America

U.S. Departament of Agriculture (USDA)

Information systems

Estatistic - World institutions' statistics

 

FOREIGN TRADE

EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT THE CAN

Andean Community General Secretariat
Bilateral and multilateral agreements that involve the CAN's countries

EXTRA INFORMATION ON TRADE NEGOTIATIONS BY COUNTRY

Chile
Mexico
Bolivia
Argentina
Brazil
Uruguay
Peru

EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT THE WTO

Access to the world trade and trade statistic information centers
Real newness after the WTO creation
Rulers about world trade
Analitical inventory of the negotiations' agenda (periodically updated)
The WTO's web site

EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT MERCOSUR

The Mercosur's web site
The Mercosur's magazine

EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUT ALADI - (Latin American Association for Integration)

The ALADI's web site

EXTRA INFORMACION ABOUT FTAA - (Free Trade Area of the Americas)

The FTAA's web site
Organization of American States (OAS)

EXTRA INFORMATION ABOUNT APEC - (Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation)

The APEC's web site
Data about APEC

EXTRA INFORMACION ABOUT IMPORTS

Foreign trade regulations

INFORMATION ABOUT FOREIGN TRADE IN THE INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC ORGANIZATIONS

World Bank: Information on the five continents' countries

US Trade and Development Agency (TDA) - Information on projects and investments

US Agency for International Development (USAID) - Information about countries and regions

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) - Economical synthesis of 26 American countries

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) - Information on the agricultural sector

The Beige Book - National and regional summaries of the U.S. current economical condition

Institute of Applied Economical Research (IAER) - Information on the Brazilian economical policy

Trade and Technological Information Promotion System (TIPS) -Trade, technology and business web site

Agricultural Market Access Database (AMAD) - Trade agricultural information of 50 countries

European Commission - European general trade directory

Organization for economic cooperation and development (OECD) - Information about its member countries

International Trade Information System - Information on foreign trade. The Texas University.

Central American Integration System - Central America's trade information

International Monetary Fund - Economical information of the world

INFORMATION ON FOREIGN TRADE PROMOTION ENTITIES BY COUNTRY

Bolivian Institute of Foreign Trade
ProChile
Foreign Trade Colombian Institute
Proexport
Ministty of Foreign Trade
Procomer
Institute of Foreign Trade
Trade Promotion Consorsium of Catalonia
Trade and Industrial Development Secretariat
Business Center of the External Bank of Mexico
The Trade Chamber of Lima

WEB SITES WITH INFORMATION FOR BUSINESS BY COUNTRY

Regional Economical Information - Magazine
Economy, policy and culture of Asia
Australian First Bank (Business)
Fira Business International Company
El Diario - Newspaper
Estrategia - Newspaper
Conexpo - Magazine
World Trade Center - Bogota
Newspaper of Economy and Business
Dinero - Newspaper
Economical and Financial Newspaper of Colombia
Information on Foreign Trade
Reserve Central Bank of El Salvador
Bureau of Economic Analysis (the U.S. Government)
The exports' federation publication
Foreign trade information in India
Foreign Trade Club in the Infosel company
Foreign Bank of Mexico
CPWARE 
El Economista - Industry and trade section
El Comercio - Newspaper - Lima, Peru
"Comercio y Producción" - the Chamber's of Trade of Lima Magazine
Center of International Business Promotion of the Trade Bank
Peruvian Exports Association
Magazine on Economy and Business
Economical supplement of the Hoy newspaper
Center for trade development
El País - Newspaper (supplements of economy and market)
Venezuelan exporting products and services
Venezuelan exports' directory

OTHER

Magazine of foreign trade (U.S)
Services for the Development Center for Global Trade
The Wall Street Journal - Interactive
Nikkei Net Interactive
The Economist
Revista del Sur - Magazine
Le Monde Diplomatic
Transporte - Magazine
International Herald Tribune

 

INVESTMENT

Emerging Markets Companion, Sovereign Ratings (country-risk per nation) www.emgmkts.com/reserach/newissuance/sovratings.htm

Issue Credit Ratings Definitions. Standard & Poor's (country-rist definitions)  
www.ratings.com/sovereings/issue.htm

Nat West Markets. (Correlation analysis for Asia and East Europe) www.emgmkts.com.research/natestmkts/correlat.htm

Trust Net. (Latin American economic index)
www.trustnet.co.uk

Moody's Investors Service, Sovereign. Ceilings. (country-risk per nation)
www.moodys.com/repladata/ratings/ratuse.htm

Moody's Investors Service. (country-risk definitions)
www.moody's.com/ratings/ratuse.htm

Bank Watch Ratings. (Index and definitions)
www.bankwatch.com/ratings.htm

The Economist Intelligence Unit Web Site. ("The Economist" - economic analysis department) www.eiu.com

Standard & Poor's Ratings Services. (Standard & Poor's publications) www.ratings.standardpoor.com/ratingsinfo/products.htm

(Services's information provided by Standard & Poor's)
www.stockinfo.standardpoor.com

Resources for Agricultural Economists. (information sources for agricultural economy)  
www.kierkegaard.ifas.ufl.edu

Virtual Library Economics.  (Virtual Economical Library)  
www.helsinki.fi/webec

Emerging Markets Companion Web Site. ("Emerging markets" web site)  
www.emgmkts.com

Moody's Investors Service, Financial Information Services. (Financial Information Service)
www.moodys.com/fis/proddesc.htm

Standard & Poor's Web Site. (Standard & Poor’s web site)
www.ratings.com

Specific surveys of Asian country-risk
www.asiarisk.com

A web site for economists  
www.econwpa.wustl.edu

Moody's Investors Service Web Site. (The Moody's web site)
www.moody.com

 

NEW AGRICULTURAL EXPORTING PRODUCTS

University of Purdue
www.hort.purdue.edu

Countries' agricultural information
www.globe.lead.org

Informative bulletins - IICA
www.agrifaro.iica.ac.cr

University of Costa Rica
www.canari.ucr.ac.cr

Fedexport's directory
www.cgi.ecua.net.ec

Proexant's data basis
proexant@ibm.net

Vegetal and fruit technology and production
www.ediho.es

Expoflores
www.expoflores.com/html/P2/home2.htm

 

COTTON

Bean & Bean Cotton -  An excellent web site.  Future purchases and contracts.  Farm gate prices.

Cone Mills

ContiCotton USA Home Page

Cotton Inc - Monthly Outlook and/or Economical Analysis

Dominion Textiles

ING International Banking

Gold Kist Inc

Marketing alternatives for cotton producers

Milliken

Nunn Cotton Co. Brownsville, Tn - Cotton brokers between producers and wholesalers.  Daily analysis and a brief comment during the activity days and important news.  All Fridays, weekly, and other important topics.

O.A. Cleveland -Cotton Marketing Weekly - Discussion of the cotton world situation.  Technical analysis.

Daily Option Report - Closing prices of all the cotton options

Telcot Daily Trading Statistics

PCCA- The Telcot Report
PCCA Home Page

Plains Cotton Growers Home Page

NY Cotton Exchange - Daily reports

NY Cotton Exchange brochures on futures & options

International Cotton Advisory Committee (ICAC) -

King Cotton - Weil Bros and USDA comments

Weil Bros graph of latest USDA report

Weil Bros -"which way the market?"

Cotton on the net -Web site for the cotton community, news, information, companies' and organizations list.

ABARE Homepage

Cotton Australia Homepage

Queensland Cotton Homepage

Textile Link - textiles' information

CCI (Cotton USA)

MORE Cotton related sites - About 200 industries related with cotton, government, universities, etc.

 

 

RICE

U.S. Departament of Agriculture (USDA)

• World Rice Situation and Outlook (FAS Online)
• Chosen group: "Grains: World Market and Trade".  Recent comments and data on the world rice situation. Moreover, this address has the last actions adopted by the countries in relation to their policy under the title "Foreign Countries' Policies and Programs".
• Chosen group: "World Agricultural Production". Summarized information about climate and changes on production estimations of the main commodities in the most important producing countries.

U.S. National Agricultural Statistic Service (NASS)

There are more than 100 rice related addresses between reports and data basis generated by several USDA information services.

Agricultural Research Service (ARS)

This Service provides a recent description of many steps forward in the U.S. agricultural research area.  There are more than 500 scientific investigation projects in the rice sector.

Estimation of World Rice Supply and Demand (ERS)

USDA monthly report on world supply and demand of the main cereals (rice included).

Rice World Outlook (ERS)

A specialized and detailed report on rice, where the world and the U.S. surface, production, yield, prices, stocks, exports and supply are studied.

U.S. Agricultural Outlook

Ananalitical report on the world/regional policy impact in the trade, market development, food security, and producer's incomes sectors.  Includes the North American economy indicators.

 

SUGAR

Ecuadorian Agricultural Corporation (EAC) 

Cain producers Union (UNCE)

www.sugarinfo.co.uk

www.fao.org

www.minag.gob.pe

www.asocana.com.co

www.inazucar.gov.do

www.azucarnet.com

www.incauca.com.co

 

BANANA

http://www.augura.com.co/ - AUGURA - Banana Producers Association of Colombia

http://www.dole.com/ - DOLE FRUIT CORPORATION

http://www.chiquita.com/ - CHIQUITA BRANDS

 http://europa.eu.int/eur-lex/es/oj/index.html - EURO LEX – EUROPEAN UNION OFFICIAL NEWSPAPER

 http://www.marketag.com/ - MARKET AG

 http://www.usda.gov/ - USDA (U.S. Departament of Agriculture

 http://www.fao.org/ - FAO (U.N. Food and Agricultural Organization)

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ - APHIS (Animal, Plant and Health Inspection Service - USDA)

 http://www.epasa.com/El_Panama_America/ - El Panama America - Newspaper

 http://www.nacion.co.cr/ - La Nación Digital from Costa Rica - Newspaper

 http://www.laprensahn.com/ - La Prensa from Honduras - Newspaper

 http://www.corpei.org/ - CORPEI (The Export and Investment Promotion Corporation) - Ecuador

http://www.inibap.org/bienvenida.htm - INIBAP (Internacional Net for Banana and Plantain Improvement)

http://www.mici.gob.pa/conbanano.html - Banana National Direction - Panama

 

CORN

Chicago Stock Exchange - Corn, Soybean and Soybean Cake Internacionales Prices

USDA - Supply/Demand and International Trade Statistics - www.usda.gov

SIPSA - Colombial Cereal Prices - www.cci.org.co

AGROPLAN - Agricultural Statistics and Analysis of Venezuela and the Andean Community

CORPEI - he Export and Investment Promotion Corporation - Ecuador

 

OILSEEDS

Malaysian Palm Oil Board

Oil World Board

National Oilseed Processors Association (NOPA)

The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT)

Weekly Grain Price Review 

Food and Agricultural Policy Research Institute (FAPRI)

FAO - Statistical Databases - (FAOSTAT)

Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishery and Food of Argentina

Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries ABIOVE

Andean Community (CAN)

 

POTATO

http://www.corpoica-regionaluno.org/boletin.html - Colombian Corporation of Agricultural Research

http://www.sociedadagricultores.org.co/sector.htm - Cevipapa - Fedepapa

http://www.cipotato.org - Potato International Center (CIP)

 http://www.potatogrower.com/

http://www.potatocongress.org/newsletters/

http://www.potatonews.com/

http://www.cerrorural.com.uy/agricultura/papa.html - Uruguay - Agriculture

http://www.sisna.com/Idaho_potato_expo/ - Idaho Potato Exposition

http://infoagro.go.cr/estadisticas/ac_productiva/papa.html

http://tucuman.com/produccion/1997/97jul_10.htm

http://ine.cl/censo/511.htm

http://200.9.33.130/fichaprocesopapa.htm

http://www.neiker.net/patata2000/

htt://www.faoinpho.org - FAO Ecuador

 

WHEAT

Ministry of Agriculture of Peru

Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fishery and Food of Argentina
Includes information on wheat production, planted areas, yield and prices in Argentina and abroad.

Us. Wheat Associates
Weekly information of exporting prices to the U.S.

Commodity Trendlines
Daily wheat prices information, per Stock Exchange

 CWB: - Canadian web site on agriculture, food and rural development
Includes information on world wheat price statistics (Kansas Stock Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, Cbot), specially of the Canada's futures, available marketes (Vancouver), and current prices per provinces.

The FAO's web site
Includes information on wheat production, yield, planted areas, and the monthly analysis of current food outlook.

The Internatinal Cereal Council's web site
Include information on current world wheat estimations of production, trade, consumption.  These are monthly reports, which include the main events happened in the cereals' market.

The USDA's web site
Includes statistics related to world  supply and demand projections, as well as the main wheat exporters and importers.  It make monthly analysis of these variables and their repercussion in the commodity's price.  It also includes relevant information on the U.S. wheat production per variety and market.

Web de la Secretaría General de la Comunidad Andina
Includes information related to the Andean Agricultural Supplying's Balance by commodities' group within the Andean Community.

CBOT
Wheat future prices.

KCBT
Wheat future prices

Minneapolis Grain Exchange
Wheat future prices

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