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Massachusetts

The Massachusetts Business Resource Team is a new service is available in Massachusetts under the Massachusetts Executive Office of Economic Development. The Business Resource Team is here to help businesses identify and access state programs and resources that match current needs. Whether you're expanding, relocating, hiring new employees or looking for working capital, the Massachusetts Business Resource Team can help you. 1-877-BIZ-TEAM

• Berkshire Growth
• Economic Development Council of Western Massachusetts
• How to Start a Business in Massachusetts
• MassDevelopment
• Massachusetts Office of Business Development
• Massachusetts Office of International Trade & Investment
• Massachusetts Port Authority
• Massachusetts Small Business Development Center Network
• Massachusetts State Government
• Procurement Technical Assistance Center
• U.S. Export Assistance Center
• State and Local Government on the Net

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Business Organizations and Trade Associations in Massachusetts

• Alliance for the Commonwealth
• Architects, Boston Society of / American Institute of Architects
• British American Business Council of New England
• Civil Engineers, Boston Society of / American Society of Civil Engineers
• Environmental Business Council of New England
• EnviroDirectory
• Forest Products Association, Massachusetts
• Global Business Alliance of New England (GBANE)
• Greater Boston Manufacturing Partnership
• Greater China Business Council of New England (GCBCNE)
• Hungarian-American Chamber of Commerce of New England
• Interactive Media Council, Massachusetts
• Marine and Oceanographic Technology Network
• Medical Device Industry Council, Massachusetts
• Moroccan American Business Council in Boston
• Organization of Women in International Trade
• Printing Industries of New England
• Software & Internet Council, Massachusetts
• Swedish-American Chamber of Commerce of New England
• Telecommunications Council, Massachusetts
• Turkish American Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Maritime Trade
• U.S.-Africa Business Council
• World Affairs Council
• World Trade Center Boston

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United States Government Sites

• Bureau of Economic Analysis
• Bureau of Export Administration
  • Export Administration Regulations Online
• Bureau of National Affairs
• Business Advisor
• BuyUSA.com: BuyUSA is a collaboration of the U.S. Commercial Service of the U.S. Department of Commerce and IBM Corporation that offers one-stop company-to-company matchmaking and international business counseling to connect suppliers of U.S. products and services with international firms interested in representing or distributing them worldwide.
• Census Bureau
• Central Intelligence Agency
  • CIA World Fact Book
• Export Import Bank
• Federal Times
• Foreign Agriculture Service
  • Procurement Assistance Jumpstation
  • U.S. Trade Internet System: Statistics on U.S. exports, imports, and re-exports of agricultural, fish, forest and textile products.
• International Trade Administration (ITA): Responsibility for non-agricultural export promotion activities, providing a selection of export promotion products and services and coordinating all Federal export promotion efforts.
  • BISNIS: Commercial information on Russia and the NIS.
  • Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center
  • Japan Export Information Center
  • NAFTA Home Page
  • Tourism Industries Network
  • Trade Compliance Center: The U.S. Government's one-stop shop to help American exporters facing foreign trade barriers and to assure that foreign countries comply with their trade commitments.
  • Trade Information from the Office of Trade and Economic Analysis
• Labor Department
• Overseas Private Investment Corporation
• Patent and Trademark
• STAT-USA & NTDB (National Trade Data Bank)
• Trade and Development Agency
• Trade Information Center
• U.S. Agency for International Development: USAID is an independent federal government agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States.
• U.S. Business Advisor - International Trade
• U.S. Customs Service
• U.S. Department of Census
• U.S. Department of Commerce
  • Central and Eastern Europe Business Information Center
  • Foreign Commercial Service for Central and Eastern Europe
  • International Trade & Business Bookstore
  • Market Access & Compliance: MAC's overriding objectives are to obtain market access for American firms and workers and to achieve full compliance by foreign nations with trade agreements they sign with the U.S.
  • E-EXPO USA
• U.S. Department of State: Political and Economic climate around the world.
  • U.S. Embassies and other Diplomatic Missions (also look under "Regional & Country Specific Sites" under respective countries' headings)
  • Office of Defense Trade Controls
  • Russia and the NIS
• U.S. Department of the Treasury - Office of Foreign Assets Control
• U.S. International Trade Commission
• U.S. Securities & Exchange
• U.S. Small Business Administration's Office Of International Trade
  • Export Legal Assistance Network (ELAN)
  • Small Business Knowledge Base:  comprehensive free resource for small business with guides and worksheets.
• U.S. Trade Representative
• U.S. Treasury Department
• Federal Government Information

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World Wide Web URL, Country Codes and Numbers

AFGHANISTAN	.af	4	ALBANIA	.al	8
ALGERIA	.dz	12	AMERICAN SAMOA	.as	16
ANDORRA	.ad	20	ANGOLA	.ao	24
ANGUILLA	.ai	660	ANTARTICA	.aq	10
ANTIGUA/BARBUDA	.ag	28	ARGENTINA	.ar	32
ARMENIA	.am	51	ARUBA	.aw	533
AUSTRALIA	.au	36	AUSTRIA	.at	40
AZERBAIJAN	.az	31	BAHAMAS	.bs	44
BAHRAIN	.bh	48	BANGLADESH	.bd	50
BARBADOS	.bb	52	BELARUS	.by	112
BELGIUM	.be	56	BELIZE	.bz	84
BENIN	.bj	204	BERMUDA	.bm	60
BHUTAN	.bt	64	BOLIVIA	.bo	68
BOSNIA HERCEGOVINA	.ba	---	BOTSWANA	.bw	72
BOUVET ISLAND	.bv	74	BRAZIL	.br	76
BR.INDIAN OCEAN	.io	86	BRUNEI DARUSSALAM	.bn	96
BULGARIA	.bg	100	BURKINA FASO	.bf	854
BURUNDI	.bi	108	BYELORUSSIA	.by	112
CAMBODIA	.kh	116	CAMEROON	.cm	120
CANADA	.ca	124	CAPE VERDE	.cv	132
CAYMAN ISLANDS	.ky	136	CENTRAL AFRICA REP.	.cf	140
CHAD	.td	148	CHILE	.cl	152
CHINA	.cn	156	CHRISTMAS ISLAND	.cx	162
COCOS ISLANDS	.cc	166	COLOMBIA	.co	170
COMOROS	.km	174	CONGO	.cg	178
COOK ISLANDS	.ck	184	COSTA RICA	.cr	188
CROATIA	.hr	---	CUBA	.cu	192
CYPRUS	.cy	196	CZECHOSLOVAKIA	.cs	200
DENMARK	.dk	208	DJIBOUTI	.dj	262
DOMINICA	.dm	212	DOMINICAN REPUBLIC	.do	214
EAST TIMOR	.tp	626	ECUADOR	.ec	218
EGYPT	.eg	818	EL SALVADOR	.sv	222
EQUATORIAL GUINEA	.gq		ESTONIA	.ee	233
ETHIOPIA	.et	230
FALKLAND ISLANDS	.fk	238	FAROE ISLANDS	.fo	234
FIJI	.fj	242	FINLAND	.fi	246
FRANCE	.fr	250	FRENCH GUIANA	.gf	254
FRENCH POLYNESIA	.pf	258	FRENCH SOUTH TER.	.tf	260
GABON	.ga	266	GAMBIA	.gm	270
GEORGIA	.ge	268	GERMANY	.de	276
GHANA	.gh	288	GIBRALTAR	.gi	292
GREECE	.gr	300	GREENLAND	.gl	304
GRENADA	.gd	308	GUADELOUPE	.gp	312
GUAM	.gu	316	GUATEMALA	.gt	320
GUINEA	.gn	324	GUINEA-BISSAU	.gw	624
GUYANA	.gy	328	HAITI	.ht	332
HEARD/MCDONALD IS.	.hm	334
HONDURAS	.hn	340	HONG KONG	.hk	344
HUNGARY	.hu	348	ICELAND	.is	352
INDIA	.in	356	INDONESIA	.id	360
IRAN	.ir	368	IRAQ	.iq	368
IRELAND	.ie	372	ISRAEL	.il	376
ITALY	.it	380	IVORY COAST	.ci	384
JAMAICA	.jm	388	JAPAN	.jp	392
JORDAN	.jo	400	KAZAKHSTAN	.kz	398
KENYA	.ke	404	KIRIBATI	.ki	296
KUWAIT	.kw	414	KYRGYZSTAN	.kg	417
LAOS	.la	418	LATVIA	.lv	428
LEBANON	.lb	422	LESOTHO	.ls	426
LIBERIA	.lr	430	LIBYA	.ly	434
LICHTENSTEIN	.li	438	LITHUANIA	.lt	440
LUXEMBOURG	.lu	442	MACAU	.mo	446
MADAGASCAR	.mg	450	MALAWI	.mw	454
MALAYSIA	.my	458	MALDIVES	.mv	462
MALI	.ml	466	MALTA	.mt	470
MARSHALL ISLANDS	.mh	584	MARTINIQUE	.mq	474
MAURITANIA	.mr	478	MAURITIUS	.mu	480
MEXICO	.mx	484	MICRONESIA	.fm	583
MOLDOVA REPUBLIC	.md	498	MONACO	.me	492
MONGOLIA	.mn	496	MONTSERRAT	.ms	500
MOROCCO	.ma	504	MOZAMBIQUE	.mz	508
MYANMAR	.mm	104	NAMBIA	.na	516
NAURU	.nr	520	NEPAL	.np	524
NETHERLANDS	.nl	528	NETHERLANDS ANTILLES	.an	532
NEW ZEALAND	.nz	554	NICARAGUA	.ni	558
NIGER	.ne	562	NIGERIA	.ng	566
NIUE	.nu	570	NORFOLK ISLAND	.nf	574
NORTH KOREA	.np	408	NORTH MARIANA ISLANDS	.mp	580
NORWAY	.no	578	OMAN	.om	512
PAKISTAN	.pk	586	PALAU.pw	585
PANAMA	.pa	590	PAPUA NEW GUINEA	.pg	598
PARAGUAY	.py	600	PERU	.pe	604
PHILIPPINES	.ph	608	PITCAIRN	.pn	612
POLAND	.pl	616	PORTUGAL	.pt	620
PUERTO RICO	.pr	630	QATAR	.qa	634
REUNION	.re	638	ROMANIA	.ro	642
RUSSIA	.ru	643	RWANDA	.rw	646
SAINT KITTS/NEVIS	.kn	659	SAINT LUCIA	.le	662
ST. VINC/GRENAD	.vc	670	SAMOA	.ws	882
SAN MARINO	.sm	674	SAO TOME/PRINCIPE	.st	678
SAUDI ARABIA	.sa	682	SENEGAL	.sn	686
SEYCHELLES	.sc	690	SIERRA LEONE	.sl	694
SINGAPORE	.sg	702	SLOVENIA	.si	---
SOLOMON ISLANDS	.sb	90	SOMALIA	.so	706
SOUTH AFRICA	.za	710	SOUTH KOREA	.kr	410
SPAIN	.es	724	SRI LANKA	.lk	144
SAINT HELENA	.sh	654	ST. PIERRE/MIQUELON	.pm	666
SUDAN	.sd	736	SURINAME	.sr	740
SVALBARD/JAN MAYEN	.sj	744	SYRIA	.sy	760
TAIWAN	.tw	158	TAJIKISTAN	.tj	762
TANZANIA	.tz	834	THAILAND	.th	764
TOGO	.tg	768	TOKELAU	.tz	834
TONGA	.to	776	TRINIDAD/TOBAGO	.tt	780
TUNISIA	.tn	788	TURKEY	.tr	792
TURKMENISTAN	.tm	795	TURKS/CAICOS ISLANDS	.tc	796
TUVALU	.tv	798	UGANDA	.ug	800
UKRAINE	.ua	804	UNITED ARAB EMIRATES	.ae	784
UNITED KINGDOM	.uk	826	UNITED STATES	.us	840
U.S. MINOR ISLANDS	.um	581	URUGUAY	.uy	858
UZBEKISTAN	.uz	860	VANUATU	.vu	548
VATICAN CITY	.va	336	VENEZUELA	.ve	862
VIETNAM	.vn	704	VIRGIN ISLANDS (BR)	.vg	92
VIRGIN ISLANDS (US)	.vi	850	WALLIS/FUTUNA ISLANDS	.wf	876
WESTERN SAHARA	.eh	732	YEMEN	.ye	887
YUGOSLAVIA	.yu	890	ZAIRE	.zr	180
ZAMBIA	.zm	894	ZIMBABWE	.zw	716

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