Foreign Trade Library @ Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

Foreign Trade Library @ Indian Institute of Foreign Trade

 

A-Z Databases

S.No. Database Name Description
1.

Bloomberg
(Available only in IIFT D & IIFT K libraries)

Bloomberg provides financial, economic and government information covering all market sectors. It features company financials, market data spanning more than 20 years, charts, statistics, a communications platform and current news reports. Its trading system enables financial transactions such as stock and options trading.

2. Business Standard It is an online news platform which provides content on Companies, Markets, Personal Finance, Opinion, Analysis, Leisure etc. in addition to the e-paper and newsletters.
Archival Coverage:
2006
3. Cambridge Core - eBooks Cambridge Core provides access to content from Cambridge University Press. The subscription includes access to 71 journals, Cambridge eBooks and Cambridge Textbooks on various subjects such as Law, Economics, Business and Area Studies, etc.
  • Cambridge International Trade and Economic Law Series - 45 titles
  • Cambridge Studies in International & Comparative Law - 160 titles
  • Special Collection on WTO - 50 titles
  • Special Text Book Package for CRIT - 260 titles
4. CEIC
(Registration required)
Global Database: Global database covers more than 6.6 million time series covering 200 economies. Granular country-level information on 18 macroeconomic sectors, such as inflation, exports, tourism and more. It includes detailed methodological references at the indicator, dataset, sector, and country levels. Key series feature for quick reference on key country indicators, such as GDP, GNP, FDI, and CPI. It focused coverage of key country players in 14 different industrial sectors.
World Trend Plus: World Trend Plus enables convenient and in-depth fundamental analysis across countries and regions through a comprehensive set of standardized benchmarks, boosts planning with forecast and sentiment data, offering the latest outlook on the global economic situation and offers insights into investment opportunities through comparisons of countries' competitiveness based on 250+ indicators.
India Premium Database: With over 500,000 time series records on macroeconomic and access to regional data on 28 states, 7 union territories, and 640 districts, across 18 economic topics and 15 industry sectors, the India Premium Database is the definitive go-to-resource for analysts, investors, and strategists, to assess and run analytical models, on the Indian economy.
Daily Database: 32,000+ Time Series (Financial Indicators) across different countries. Categories: Commodity Price and Futures, Deposit Rated, Disease Outbreaks, Futures, Fx Rates, Forward Rates, Government Securities, Interbank Offer Rates, Lending Rates, Monetary Data, Swap Rates.
5. China Trade Monitor
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China Trade Monitor is a news reporting and analysis service that provides in-depth coverage of China-related trade issues that have implications for trade, such as national security, human rights and competition policy/antitrust. The main topics include trade agreements, negotiations, and disputes; trade remedies; domestic legislation; regulation, and litigation; digital trade; investment; intellectual property; environment; labor rights.
6. CMIE Commodities
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Commodities combines real-time spot prices, historical fundamental data and robust forecasts for agricultural crops. Covers data on prices for 200 varieties of 70 commodities from 150 markets. It also contains statistics on area, production, and yield up to district level. It also includes various industries and provides information on indicators like production, prices, inputs, cost of cultivation, foreign trade, forecasts and tidings of various industries.
7. CMIE Consumer Pyramidsdx
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Consumer Pyramidsdx is the largest survey of households of India. It makes estimates of income, expenses, savings, borrowings, investments and ownership of assets of households. It also makes estimates of the age, gender, education, occupation, health and financial inclusion of individuals. CPHS is conducted thrice every year, thus, there are three Waves every year. The sample size of the survey is 2,40,000+ households, and the sample is maintained as a panel surveyed over multiple Waves. Total 600+ list of indicators covered in CPHS. Data coverage starts from 2014.
People of India dx: The People of India database is particularly rich in capturing labour market supply characteristics. It provides information on the employment/unemployment status of every individual over 14 years of age. It covers in detail of the duration of place of work, type of employment and nature of engagement.
Aspirational India dx
: The Aspirational India database offers several kinds of data that throw light on household assets and amenities, household sentiments, their perceptions, and decisions regarding the purchase of assets or to make investments. It covers data on ownership of a dozen assets by households and insights into the standard of living of Indian households.
Income Pyramids dx
: This database presents information on income from wages, pensions, dividends, and interest of individual earning members of households. Each source of income is revealed separately. It offers income received by the household from sources that are usually not attributable to a specific individual of the household. These include private transfers, government transfers, business profits, profits from sale of assets, the imputed income of home-grown agricultural products used for self-consumption, lotteries & gambling.
Consumption Pyramids dx
: Consumption Pyramids delivers a monthly series of household consumption expenditure & snapshots of weekly expenses on select fast-moving expense items. The Consumer Pyramids Household Survey focuses on two questions. First, how much do households spend, in rupee terms, on consumption expenditure & second, what is the broad distribution of this spend. Consumption Pyramids also provides snapshots of weekly expenses on 27 items on which expenses are made with faster frequency.
8. CMIE Economic Outlook
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The database provides an overview of the Indian economy. The data indicators include time-series analysis, macroeconomic performance, tidings, statistics, and forecasts for various socio-economic sectors. These sectors include national accounts, inflation, money and banking, public finance, the external sector, foreign trade, agriculture, energy, infrastructure, industry, investments, the corporate sector, capital markets, consumer sentiments, employment and wages, population, demography and households, tourism, education, health, crime, and elections.
9. CMIE Industry Outlook
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The database provides detailed historical data on various financial and non-financial industries, including mining, manufacturing, utilities, and other service industries. In total, 209 industries are covered. It includes indicators such as the expected creation of new capacities, projected financial performance, price movements of commodities, and future demand-supply balances or gaps.
10. CMIE Prowess
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Prowess is an interactive querying system to find companies from the Prowess database. The Prowess database provides the financial statements of over 1,00,000 Indian companies. It delivers over a hundred tabulations that present neatly laid out tabulations of the data of the companies. These enable time series analysis, ratio analysis, peer comparisons, industry benchmark comparisons along with several handles to analyse the information. It includes all companies traded on the NSE and the BSE, thousands of unlisted public limited companies and hundreds of private limited companies. It provides over 1,500 data-fields per company and additional 1,400 data-fields specifically for Banking and NBFC companies. Prowess provides time-series data from 1989. There are 66 different Query Triggers in the database.

ProwessIQ is an interactive querying system to find companies from the Prowess database. The Prowess database contains financial performance data of about 38,000 Indian companies. It includes all companies traded on the NSE and the BSE, thousands of unlisted public limited companies and hundreds of private limited companies. It provides 3,500 data fields per company ProwessIQ provides time-series data from 1989. There are 61 different Query Triggers in the database.

11. CMIE States of India
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It is a statistical compendium of the 37 states and union territories and 724 districts of India. The statistics cover economic and socio-economic indicators, such as state domestic product, inflation, banking, public finance, agriculture and industry etc. It also provides time-series statistics on area, production, and yield up to district level from 1990-91 onwards.
12. CMIE Tradedx
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Tradedx (Trade Data eXtraction Interface) is a database comprising time-series data on India's foreign trade. India's trade data based on Principal Commodities (PC) and Indian Trade Classification (ITC) is available for the past 26 and 27 years respectively.
India's foreign trade data is based on two types of commodity classifications, Principal Commodities (PC) and Indian Trade Classification (ITC). Data based on both types of commodity classifications are compiled and released by Directorate General of Commercial Intelligence Statistics (DGCI&S), Kolkata. Data based on PC classification is released with a lag of one month. ITC data is released with a lag of two to three months.
PC classification includes major items that are traded by India. It includes around 190 commodities each for exports and imports. ITC-based classification captures India's foreign trade data at a granular level. ITC comprises 2-4-6-8 digit coding structure of commodities. The classification includes more than 20,000 commodities.
13. EBSCO Business Source Ultimate

EBSCO Business Source Ultimate offers an enriched collection of peer-reviewed, full-text journals and other resources. It provides both historical insights and current trends in business, fostering discussions on future developments and changes in the global business landscape.
The database covers a wide range of key subject areas, including accounting, finance, banking, entrepreneurship, management, investment, and more. Along with essential full-text journals, users gain access to case studies, country economic reports, company profiles, and interviews with executives and analysts.
In addition, the database provides valuable non-journal content, such as:

  • Exclusive videos from the Academy of Management
  • Harvard Business Faculty Seminar Videos
  • Standard & Poor's Industry Surveys (CFRA)


The database covers bibliographic and full-text content dating back to 1886 in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, management information systems, production & operations management, accounting, finance, and economics. The content includes journals, magazines, trade publications, case studies, ebooks/book chapters, company profiles - SWOT analysis, industry profiles, market research reports, financial reports, country/territory reports.

14. Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) provides country, industry, management analysis and forecasts on over 200 countries, 9 strategic industries, and a full range of management functions through the following services:
  • ViewsWire - provides daily updated analysis and views on business, economic trends, political and market developments from around the world. It covers over 200 countries with three years of archived information.
  • Country Reports - provides in depth information on issues shaping the country: the political scene, economic policy, domestic economy, sectoral trends, foreign trade and payments. Country Reports covers 200 countries and is updated monthly.
15. Edzter
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Edzter is an online database covering 8,500+ magazines, newspapers and journals from around the world across 40+ categories and 60+ languages.
16. EMIS University-Global
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EMIS covers Company, Industry and Country Intelligence data. It facilitates search company profile information and in-depth analysis of 5 years financial data for private and public companies. Company Screener tool helps to delve into deep company analyses and industry ranking. Industry data can be filtered and analyzed to get latest industry trends across 100 industries, premium industry reports, and industry forecasts. The database also delivers proprietary and multi-source news and research from over 16,000 publications in 15 languages, covering more than 100 countries.
17. EPWRF India Times Series (EPWRFITS)
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The database provides time series data, structured in 29 subject modules; several of these modules have state level data, and data relating to the rural sector. The data has been collated from secondary sources, such as publications of government ministries/departments and Reserve Bank of India. The data series starts generally from the early 1950s, and the time horizon would vary depending upon the data availability.
18. ET Prime
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The Economic Times is an Indian English-language business-focused daily newspaper which offers Business News, Financial news, Stock/Share Market News, Economy News, Loans & Banking News. The platform also covers news on various industries including technology, media, telecom, pharmaceuticals, automobiles, finance, economic trends, and even climate change, etc.
Archival Coverage: 2020
19. Euromonitor Passport Euromonitor Passport is a global market research database which contains data and statistics for countries around the world covering consumer market sizes, market data & forecasts, consumer lifestyles, companies and brands, country risk, infrastructure, and industrial sectors. Ideal for international projects such as new market entry and for searching consumer goods on food, beverage, beauty and personal care, home appliances, pet care, finance, and more.
20. FT.com
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Financial Times brings an international focus to business news with daily coverage, also provides FT articles, in-depth 'Special Reports', company and financial information.
Archival Coverage:
2010
21. Global Trade Alert The Global Trade Alert (GTA) is the repository of policy changes affecting global trade and investment. It documents thousands of state interventions worldwide, covering trade in goods and services, foreign direct investment (FDI), and labor force migration. The database tracks both liberalizing (beneficial) and harmful (discriminatory) measures that alter the relative treatment of domestic versus foreign entities. It is designed to be searchable, allowing users to filter and export data by jurisdiction, affected trading partners, sectors, timelines, and intervention types.
22. HeinOnline HeinOnline is a premier online research platform providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 3,000 law-related periodicals, as well as essential government documents, constitutions, world trials, classic treatises, international resources, case law etc.
23. Indiastat.com Indiastat.com provides secondary level socio-economic statistical information about India and its states on various socio-economic parameters such as demographics, economy, agriculture, environment and forest, education, housing, tourism etc. Data has been classified into 31 categories and subdivided into their various sub-categories.
24. JSTOR JSTOR is a digital library of journals, academic ebooks, monographs, research reports and primary sources. It contains the full-text of more than 2,300 journals, with publication dates from 1665 onwards (for certain titles). Journals are available in more than 60 disciplines in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and mathematics.
In addition, it contains more than 1,00,000 ebooks from 250+ renowned scholarly publishers, more than 50,000 open research reports from 187+ policy institutes, cross-disciplinary collection (Artstor) of over 2 million images from around the world etc.
25. Livemint The Livemint is business news platform which provides daily news, LIVE share market news and updates, financial, economic and banking news from India & across the world.
Archival Coverage: Five Years from current along with Mint Asia edition.
26. Manupatra Manupatra is a database containing Indian legislation, court reports and information and materials of business policy. It provides Supreme Court cases (from 1950 onwards), High Court judgments of all States (dates vary), Judgments from Tribunals and Commissions (dates vary), Central Bare Acts (including amendments from 1878 onwards) and selected judgments from the High Courts, Federal Court and Privy Council (from the period before 1950). It also contains comprehensive coverage on WTO, Cyber / IT Laws / IPR, Forex and Banking, Capital Market, Insurance, Company Cases etc. (each area includes news, reports, legislation, rules and procedures, dispute settlements and other related information).
27. MAXQDA Analytics Pro MAXQDA is a software tool that helps researchers and analysts to manage, analyze, and interpret large amounts of qualitative and mixed-methods data. MAXQDA Standard includes features such as coding, memoing, and data visualization. Additionally, with the software, one can organize your data, create categories, and analyze text, audio, and video files. With MAXQDA Analytics Pro, one can perform advanced statistical tests, such as regression analysis, analysis of variance, and group comparisons. It also includes advanced visualization tools, such as network analysis and multidimensional scaling.
28. Nikkei Asia Nikkei Asia is an online platform providing news and insights focused on the Asian continent although it also covers broader international developments. It provides news and insights on the region's most influential companies, and comprehensive coverage of politics, the economy, markets and trends.
29. Oxford Economics
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Oxford Economics is an independent global economic forecasting firm and advisory company that provides analysis, forecasts, data, and consulting services to governments, corporations, financial institutions, and other organizations covering over 200 countries, over 150 industrial sectors and 8,000 cities and regions. The services include macroeconomic forecasting, sectoral and city-level analysis, custom scenario modeling, economic impact assessments, and risk management.
30. Oxford English Dictionary (OED) The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. It is an unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 3.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.
The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world, from North America to South Africa, from Australia and New Zealand to the Caribbean. It also offers the best in etymological analysis, listings of variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet.
31. Oxford University Press

Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law:

The subscription includes access to journal titles on various subjects like Law, Economics, Political Science, Public Health, Business, Sociology, Literature etc. along with other packages of Oxford University Press.

 

The subscription includes access to 262 journal titles on various subjects like Law, Economics, Political Science, Public Health, Business, Sociology, Literature etc. along with the following packages of Oxford Public International Law (OPIL):

32. ProQuest ABI / INFORM Collection This database comprises ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline. It features thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as The Economist, Sloan Management Review, Wall Street Online and etc., as well as country- and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data. Apart from the above, its international coverage includes:
  • Economist Intelligence Unit country data, country finance, forecast reports and views wire.
  • Oxford country provides, country forecast and economic forecast.
  • Industry reports from Business Monitor Online and First search.
33. S&P Global IHS Markit
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IHS Markit provides comprehensive market intelligence, industry analysis, and economic insights across various sectors. Its key features include Industry and Market Data, Macroeconomic Insights, Supply Chain and Risk Analysis, Financial and Commodity Markets, and Regulatory and Compliance Data.
34. S&P Global Trade Atlas
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Global Trade Atlas (GTA) is a web-based search and analysis tool that provides global trade data in every commodity. It encompasses dependable monthly bilateral trade data for 113 countries and annual data for close to 200 countries, based on official imports and exports statistics. The key features of the database includes Macroeconomic indicator - Monthly impact assessment of Commodity, Industry Sector, Country, etc., Visibility of traded commodities by Quantities, Total Values and Unit Values, Additional Data Fields - Monthly trade flows per - Port, Regional regime, Transport modes, Re-export / Domestics, State, Customs District, Province, US NAICS and more, Currency and Unit conversions and In-depth research across disparate data sources.
35. S&P Panjiva
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Panjiva database provides import and export details on commercial shipments worldwide. Its coverage spans approximately 40% of global merchandise traded by dollar value, over 2 billion shipment records from 20 countries and 13 million company-to-company relationships for a comprehensive view of the global marketplace. The shipment records provide information on physical trade transactions between companies, with information on the goods traded, tariff codes, ports, amounts, values and other trade details.
36. Scopus Scopus is a multidisciplinary, abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature (scientific journals, books, conference proceedings etc.). Scopus contains 2.4+ billion cited references, 94+ million records (including 29.2+ thousand active serial titles and 330+ thousand books), 19.6+ million author profiles, 99.6+ thousand organization profiles, 7+ thousand publishers. The publications per major subject area covers 44% Social Sciences, 33% Physical Sciences, 26% Health Sciences and 19% Life Sciences publications.
37. Statista (+ eCommerceDB) Statista provides access to quantitative facts by market sector, on over 80000 topics including media, business, politics, society, finance, technology and education. Statista offers statistics and survey results in the form of bar charts and tables. Apart from Statistics, Statista also provides data on market forecasts, white paper studies, dossiers, industry reports, digital market outlooks and consumer market outlooks. Industry and Country Reports and other reports can be downloaded in PDF format and charts can be downloaded in PNG, PowerPoint, Excel or PDF formats. Sources of information include market research, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. eCommerce insights include In depth analyses on 42,000+ online stores, marketplaces, and companies worldwide.
38. SUNS - South North Development Monitor
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SUNS is a unique source of information and analyses on international development issues, focusing on North-South and South-South negotiations. It provides unique in-depth coverage of the activities of the Non-Aligned countries, of the Group of 77, and other regional and inter-regional groups of the South and the non-governmental organizations.
It has been a unique source of information, from the Southern perspective, of the processes of negotiations, formal and informal, of GATT and the Uruguay Round, the Mid-Term Review Process, the Brussels Ministerial Session, and since then, the UNCTAD Conferences, and of the entire debates and dialogue on environment/development issues, the Earth Summit and other major UN Conferences, as well as their follow-up.
39. The Economist
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The Economist is a globally renowned weekly publication that provides in-depth analysis and reporting on international news, politics, economics, business, finance, science and technology.
40. The Hindu Group
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Apart from the morning English daily, The Hindu Group, publishes the business newspaper The Hindu BusinessLine (India's leading website for business and financial news, BSE and NSE quotes, stock recommendations, market analysis and research, politics) and Frontline (Indian Fortnightly Magazine which provides in-depth analysis & cover stories on Political News, Economic News, Current Social issues).
41. Trade Law Guide A World Trade Organization (WTO) research database containing WTO and GATT jurisprudence, agreements, and related material. Citators, indexes and other research tools are also provided. TradeLawGuide Law includes many features for researching WTO law, including:
  • WTO and GATT jurisprudence
  • Commentary on WTO jurisprudence
  • Procedural documents from WTO cases
  • Jurisprudence citators showing how WTO/GATT cases have been cited subsequently
  • WTO and pre-WTO agreements and other instruments, with annotations
  • An article citator showing how provisions of WTO agreements/instruments have been cited in WTO jurisprudence (see 'Quick Lookup', or 'Agreements...')
  • Information about pending cases
  • Terms & Phrases, an index to definitions in WTO agreements and jurisprudence
  • Uruguay Round negotiating documents
42. UN Comtrade
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The United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database (UN Comtrade) contains detailed imports and exports statistics reported by statistical authorities of close to 200 countries/areas since 1962 and represents more than 99% of the world's merchandise trade.

43. UN iLibrary
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There are approximately 9000 titles included in the UN iLibrary. Every year around 500 new titles are added to the collection, approximately 70% of which are in English and cover the following topics:

  • Agriculture Rural Development and Forestry

  • Children and Youth

  • Democracy and Governance

  • Disarmament

  • Drugs, Crime and Terrorism

  • Economic and Social Development

  • Environment and Climate Change

  • Human Rights and Refugees

  • Human Settlements and Urban Issues

  • International Law and Justice

  • International Trade and Finance

  • Migration

  • Natural Resources, Water and Energy

  • Peacekeeping and Security

  • Population and Demography

  • Public Health

  • Transportation and Public Safety

  • United Nations

  • Women and Gender Issues

44. VCCEdge
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VCCEdge provides businesses, investors, analysts, and researchers with in-depth insights into the Indian private equity, venture capital, and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) ecosystem. As a leading resource for tracking investment activity in India, it offers access to detailed data, market intelligence, and advanced analytical tools that empower informed decision-making. Explore key trends, analyse market dynamics, and gain competitive intelligence.

45. Volza Grow Global
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Volza is an Export Import Data Provider, offering export import trade data for over 82+ countries. The platform aids in discovering custom data, port data, and shipment data from the global trade database. This cutting-edge platform empowers users to adjust their trade strategies based on market insights, identifying emerging products, markets, optimal pricing ranges, and enabling users to find exporters, and importers contact information.

46. Westlaw Asia

Westlaw Asia is an online database that provides a legal research service through a unique portal to search across multiple countries (Australia, Cambodia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, India, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, New Zealand, Philippines, Singapore, UK) within a single search. It provides a collection of Cases, Laws, Commentaries, Journals, and Current Awareness.

47. World Trade Online
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World Trade Online is a digital news service which includes the Inside U.S. Trade newsletter. The database library comprises of over 1,00,000 valuable trade-related documents including policy papers, WTO decisions, draft and final regulations, court decisions, legislation etc.

48. WorldTradeLaw.net

WorldTradeLaw.net offers a free library of current trade news and resources, as well as a subscription service (the Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) Service), which provides summary and analysis of all WTO reports and arbitrations; a current keyword index; a database of dispute settlement tables and statistics; and a search tool for WTO cases, legal texts, and other documents.

49. WTO iLibrary

WTO iLibrary is the online research depository of the World Trade Organization (WTO) featuring its publications, reports and periodicals. It contains over 1,800 titles published by the WTO or co-published with other international organizations, comprising almost 14,000 chapters; over 30 titles co-published with Cambridge University Press, comprising over 500 chapters; over 300 WTO working papers and comprehensive statistical data on world trade; every dispute settlement report - over 800 reports - issued since the WTO was established.
An intuitive platform housing insightful content across 17 thematic collections:

  • Agriculture and food safety

  • Anti-dumping, subsidies, safeguards

  • Development and building trade capacity

  • Dispute settlement

  • Economic research and trade policy analysis

  • Environment

  • Government procurement

  • Information technology and e-commerce

  • Intellectual property

  • Market access

  • Regional trade agreements

  • Services

  • Technical barriers to trade

  • Trade facilitation and customs valuation

  • Trade finance

  • Trade monitoring

  • WTO accessions