UN body responsible for trade and development issues
Information products include:
(a) WWW server includes info on organisation, the International Trade Centre (see separate entry), the Trade Point Development Centre (see separate entry), standing committees and working groups, Special Committee on Preferences. Also includes a publications list (and a publications list with abstracts entitled Reference Service) and full text of some publications from UNCTAD meetings.
(b) Comtrade: international trade statistics (see separate entry). Import and export statistics at 3 digit SITC rev 3 country level can be downloaded inn tabular format from the Gopher service (years vary but mostly 1991 to date)
(c) Trains: export promotion database (see separate entry)
(d) TrainForTrade: training programme to develop human resources for trade promotion