Annual bulletin of foreign trade.

Vol. for 1930 has title: Report on the foreign trade.

Analysis of the international competitiveness of the U.S. commercial shipbuilding and repair industries.

Mode of access: Internet.

International direct investment : global trends and the U.S. role.

Mode of access: Internet.

U.S. industry & trade outlook.

No issues published for 1996-1997.

A charter for world trade.

Mode of access: Internet.

China's economy and foreign trade 1981-85 /

Mode of access: Internet.

A chartbook of international labor comparisons : United States, Europe, Asia /

"This chartbook provides comparable information that can be used to assess United States (U.S.) economic and labor performance relative to other countries and to evaluate the competitive position of the U.S. in international trade." -- Foreword.

Rapport international sur le mouvement syndical /

A directory of international trade union centers is appended to each report.

Official U.S. and international financing institutions : a guide for exporters and investors.

Mode of access: Internet.

Industry & trade summary : coffee and tea /

"April 1994."

Trade liberalisation and technical efficiency: Evidence from Bangladesh manufacturing industries

The paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation on the technical efficiency of the Bangladesh manufacturing sector by estimating a combined stochastic frontier-inefficiency model using panel data for the period 197894 for 25 three-digit level industries. The results show that the overall technical efficiency of the manufacturing sector as well as the technical efficiencies of the majority of the individual industries has increased over time. The findings also clearly suggest that trade liberalisation, proxied by export orientation and capital deepening, has had significant impact on the reduction of the overall technical inefficiency. Similarly, the scale of operation and the proportion of non-production labour in total employment appear as important determinants of technical inefficiency. The evidence also indicates that both export-promoting and import-substituting industries have experienced rises in technical efficiencies over time. Besides, the results are suggestive of neutral technical change, although (at the 5 per cent level of significance) the empirical results indicate that there was no technical change in the manufacturing industries. Finally, the joint test based on the likelihood ratio (LR) test rejects the Cobb-Douglas production technology as description of the database given the specification of the translog production technology.

Implications of seasonal climate forecasts on world wheat trade: a stochastic, dynamic analysis

Improvements in seasonal climate forecasts have potential economic implications for international agriculture. A stochastic, dynamic simulation model of the international wheat economy is developed to estimate the potential effects of seasonal climate forecasts for various countries' wheat production, exports and world trade. Previous studies have generally ignored the stochastic and dynamic aspects of the effects associated with the use of climate forecasts. This study shows the importance of these aspects. In particular with free trade, the use of seasonal forecasts results in increased producer surplus across all exporting countries. In fact, producers appear to capture a large share of the economic surplus created by using the forecasts. Further, the stochastic dimensions suggest that while the expected long-run benefits of seasonal forecasts are positive, considerable year-to-year variation in the distribution of benefits between producers and consumers should be expected. The possibility exists for an economic measure to increase or decrease over a 20-year horizon, depending on the particular sequence of years.