International Business: Supply Chain Management Resources

The Canadian Importers Database provides summary reports and lists of companies importing goods into Canada.

Covers industrial, engineering and construction products. Has a products and suppliers directory.

An industrial search engine that provides a guide for sourcing & quoting more than 10,000 types of machinery, parts, supplies & services.

Offers coverage of products and services in 60 countries including millions of B2B and commercial companies worldwide.

Offers searchable purchasing guides or directories for the north American industrial sector.

MHEDA is the Material Handling Equipment Distributors Association dedicated to serving all segments of the material handling business community.

A free platform for discovery of over 700,000 Commercial and Industrial Suppliers. Suppliers can be searched by product or service, company name, brand name, or UNSPSC commodity code.

Information including blogs, links to associations, and websites representing some of the best companies and individuals working in the logistics industry.

An inter-governmental organisation within the OECD system. Provides publications, statistics, and updates.

Features logistics news, directories by industry sectors, tools and links to websites on various modes of transport.

Offers information on different sectors in the digital supply chain including logistics.

Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Country-specific information around communication styles, display of emotion, dress, punctuality & formality, preferred managerial qualities, hierarchy and decision-making, religion, class, ethnicity, gender, relationship-building, workplace

Information about living and working in the EU. Additional information about doing business in the EU available.

A database of user contributed data about cities and countries worldwide.

Sponsored by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), UNdata is a new internet based data service.

Gini index measures the extent to which the distribution of income (or, in some cases, consumption expenditure) among individuals or households within an economy deviates from a perfectly equal distribution.

WTO has numerous data available including trade profiles and tariff information.

Re3data is a global registry of research data repositories that covers research data repositories from different academic disciplines. It includes repositories that enable permanent storage of and access to data sets to researchers, funding bodies, publishers, and scholarly institutions. re3data promotes a culture of sharing, increased access and better visibility of research data.

International Standard Industrial Classification of All Economic Activities

Canadian-based site hosted by Statistics Canada
Search via a clickable hierarchy, with sector identifier and text

U.S. based site; search via keyword entry

The United Nations Standard Products and Services Code® (UNSPSC®) provides an open, global multi-sector standard for classification of products and services.

Classification/coding schemes by country.

The Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System is generally referred to as "Harmonized System" or simply "HS"
It comprises about 5,000 commodity groups.