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The Global Forum website tries to keep track of the ever changing landscape of trade analysis, measurement of trade and trade statistics. The site keeps a database of links to over 150 relevant publications, reports, articles and speeches.

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Publications

High-tech Trade by Enterprise Characteristics

Alexander Loschky Karo Nuortila 2009

Until now two approaches existed to identify high-tech foreign trade: The product approach which uses a list of goods classified as high-tech products2 and the sectoral approach which identifies the trade by the sectors classified as high-tech industries. The current nomenclature of the sectoral approach stems from an investigation done by Thomas Hatzichronoglou presented in 1997 by the OECD and was subsequently updated in 2005 and reviewed by the EU Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) in 2008… more »

Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises: U.S. and EU Export Activities, and Barriers and Opportunities Experienced by U.S. Firms

Justino De La Cruz James Stamps Laura Bloodgood 2010
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This report examines the extent and composition of U.S. exports by small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and factors that may disproportionately impede U.S. SME exports. It compares the exporting activities of SMEs in the United States with those of SMEs in the European Union (EU); describes barriers and costs associated with exporting, as reported by U.S. SMEs; and identifies the benefits to U.S. SMEs from improvements to the exporting environment resulting from free trade agreements (FTAs) and other trading arrangements… more »