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Issue 23
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VOLUME 1 ISSUE 23
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WELCOME
http://www.fita.org/
Here's your latest issue of
Really Useful Sites for the International Trade
Professional. This free bi-weekly newsletter reviews
useful Web sites from the Web Resources database at FITA's International Trade/
Import-Export Portal at http://fita.org, an
excellent source for trade leads, news, events, and a
link library of 4,000+ sites related to international
trade.
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My name is John
McDonnell, and for years I wrote a weekly e- newsletter
that profiled business-oriented Web sites. Now I'm using
my Web research skills to find sites that are useful for
international trade, as well as some fun sites that
you'll enjoy visiting.
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RESEARCHER'S LINKS
http://www.gate.net/~barbara
In my journalism days I
learned how to dig up information for stories, but it's
a pity I didn't have Barbara's
Graffiti News Researcher's Pages at
www.gate.net/~barbara/index.html back then. This site is
chock-full of links to good information in scores of
categories (everything from Animals to Web Page
Resources). It's worth visiting no matter what kind of
research you do. Take a look at all the resources she
has under the International category, and you'll see
what I mean.
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OUR
FEATURED REGIONAL SITE -- CHINASITE.COM
http://www.chinasite.com/
If I didn't already know that
great changes have been occuring in China, one look at
ChinaSite.com at
www.chinasite.com would clue me in. At the top of the
main page of this site, not far from the picture of
Chairman Mao, is the smiling face of Mickey Mouse.
Mickey and Mao together is not something you would have
associated with China until recent years, when the
Chinese government began opening up to the West. There
are many changes going on in China, as one look at this
Web site will show you. The site has more than 8,500
links to China- related Web sites in dozens of
categories. Each link has a short description and a
rating, and tells you what language the site is in
(English or Chinese). The information is very useful.
Under Business & Economics, for instance, the
descriptions tell you which sites are run by the Chinese
government, and which are private enterprises.
There are lots more links to China at the FITA site.
Go to http://fita.org/webindex/index.html,
click on Regional Resources and Multi-Lateral Trading
Areas in the left column or "Search by Country or
Region" in the right column, and then go to Asia and
select China in the pop-up window. Or simply type
"China" in the search box at http://www.fita.org/.
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Useful Sites for the International Trade Professional.
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selected organizations. For information, please contact
Barney Lehrer, Director of eCommerce Development at webmaster@fita.org
or 1-800-969-FITA extension 4.
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WORLD
GESTURES
http://www.webofculture.com/worldsmart/gestures.asp
If I'm ever trying to close a
deal with a Bulgarian person I'll have to remember that
the body language for "yes" and "no" are different in
his country than mine. To say yes in Bulgaria, people
shake their head back and forth, which is the opposite
of how it's done in many other countries. I learned that
from the Gestures
page at the Web of Culture site at
www.webofculture.com/worldsmart/gestures.asp. This page
has some explanations of what gestures mean in different
cultures, reprinted from a book by communication expert
Roger Axtell.
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The
FITA Buy/Sell Exchange
http://fita.worldbid.com/
FITA and Worldbid.com have
launched a new International Buy/Sell exchange. The
FITA Buy/Sell Exchange at fita.worldbid.com is
FITA's new business-to-business marketplace that helps
your company find more business by delivering tender
opportunities, RFQ's and qualified offers to buy and
sell. You will have access to a global network of
affiliated trade sites that work together to bring
together businesses across borders. Take a
look!
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ENCYCLOPEDIAS
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/reference.encyclopedias.html
I don't know if I'll ever need
to get detailed information about the yellow-shouldered
blue-fronted Amazon parrot, but if I do I'll just go to
the Book
of Parrots at
www.papageien.org/LITERATUR/index_en.shtml, which will
tell me everything I need to know. The Book of Parrots
is listed at Virtual
Reference: Encyclopedias at
www.virtualfreesites.com/reference.encyclopedias.html, a
great site for anyone seeking reference information on
the Web. This page has something for everyone. You can
find everything from an encyclopedia of the t.v. show
Babylon 5 to the Encyclopedia of
the Orient at i-cias.com/e.o/index.htm, an excellent
resource for those interested in that region of the
world.
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