International Trade Law and Development

This guide provides links to sources to aid the researcher in trade law and international development by bringing together in one place significant primary laws and decision- and policy-making bodies. Useful secondary sources, such as research guides, statistics, and web collections of trade-related materials are also included. Some of the database materials are subscription-based and are accessible using Law Library computers. For users with Arizona Law status, remote access to these databases is also available using their UA NetID login credentials.

•  International Trade Centre (ITC)
•  Organization of Women in International Trade (OWIT)
•  International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
•  National Council on International Trade Development
•  African Seed Trade Association (ASTA)
•  PhytoTrade Africa
•  Trade Law Centre for Southern Africa (TRALAC)
•  Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU)

• EFTA Court
• ICC Commission on Arbitration
• ITC Recent Petitions
• Inter-American Commercial Arbitration Commission (IACAC)
• International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID)
• International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC)  and International Investment Claims (both subscription-based)
• UNCITRAL case law (CLOUT)
• United States Court of International Trade
• US Department of State-Office of Claims and Investment Disputes (NAFTA arbitration)
• WTO Dispute Settlement
• WTO Documents Online
• NAFTA Dispute Settlement
• Investment Arbitration Reporter- subscription

• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Caribbean Trade Reference Center (CTRC)
• Central American Trade Statistics System 
• CISG Database (Pace Institute of InternationalCommercial Law)
• EDIS (documents database from the USITC)
• EUROSTAT
• Forum for Research in Empirical International Trade (F.R.E.I.T.)
• NatLaw World (National Law Center)
• International Trade and Balance of Payments Statistics Portal (OECD)
• International Trade and Tariff Data (WTO)
• Research, Data and Tools (World Bank)
• SICE (all trade agreements in force among Western Hemisphere nations
• Trade Profiles (WTO countries)
• Trade & International Integration (Worldbank)
• TradeStats Express from ITA
• UN Trade Statistics Branch
• UN Statistics Division (classifications)
• US Census-Foreign Trade Statistics
• GATT Online Library (docs)
• Investment Treaty Arbitration
• EFTA Statistics

Subscription/Membership-based

• Center for Economic Policy (CEPR)
• Ecoamericas
• National Bureau of Economics Research
• Investment Claims (OUP)

• Far Eastern Economic Review (Proquest)
• Inside U.S. Trade (some free, some subscription content)
• Global Trade Alert (Centre for Economic Policy Research)
• International Trade Forum Magazine
• ECE Regional Trade Agreements Blog
• International Economic Law and Policy Blog

• EU Commission-trade
• Global Trade Negotiations (from Harvard's Center for International Development)
• Lex Mercatoria
• National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade

• Dictionary of Trade Terms
• Acronyms-International Development Organizations
• Foreign Law Guide
• Parry & Grant Dictionary of Int'l Law
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Internationall Law