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Latest trade statistics from the World Trade Organizations http://www.wto.org/english/res_e/statis_e/statis_e.htm
 * Some interesting trade links**

A readable guide to trade as a US policy debate is: //“World Trade”// in the journal CQ Researcher v.10-22, by Mary H. Cooper, Date: June 2000 (in Library-check catalog).

As always, //The Economist// is a good resource on arguments for trade, or for intelligent and well-written material that is broadly sympathetic to business.

Basic trade statistics from US Gov’t http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/www/

A wide range of links to resources on trade from the University of Buffalo library—browse away! http://ublib.buffalo.edu/libraries/asl/guides/busdoc/intl_trade.html#barriers

An article and academic paper stressing the empirical gains from trade to the US http://www.economist.com/finance/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=3446226 http://www.iie.com/publications/chapters_preview/3802/2iie3802.pdf

Moral arguments for free trade from the libertarian think tank Cato Institute: http://www.cato.org/pubs/policy_report/v23n4/freetrade.pdf

Institute of International Economics (a major pro-globalization think tank) http://www.iie.com/

World Trade Organization http://www.wto.org/index.htm

The NAFTA Secretariat http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/DefaultSite/index_e.aspx?DetailID=184 Public Citizen on trade, NAFTA, etc http://www.citizen.org/trade/ AFL-CIO on trade: http://www.aflcio.org/issues/jobseconomy/globaleconomy/

//Dollars and Sense// (http://www.dollarsandsense.org/index.html ) has useful material that is skeptical about trade.