About the Website--
Worldtradelibrary.com is intended to provide students, professors, journalists and media representatives, elected officials, business executives, and the public-at-large a reliable, comprehensive, and accessible source of information and analysis about pressing trade and investment debates of the day. The materials cataloged are drawn from leading international economic research institutions and universities in the United States and around the world. We also include official U.S. government statements, reports, testimony, and notices about trade, investment, and international economic policy issues.

To search the catalog, click on "Library Database" navigation button at left, or click here.

About the Sponsor --
The Women in International Trade (WIIT) Chritable Trust Currently manages Worldtradelibrary.com. In 2005, the Consumers for World Trade Education Fund (CWT Ed Fund) created Worldtradelibrary.com to enhance public literacy about the dynamics, complexities, and overall benefits of a liberal environment for international trade, foreign direct investment, and international economic policy. In January 2009, the WIIT Charitable Trust assumed ownership of the electronic trade library when the CWT Ed Fund transferred its assets to the WIIT Trust. The two organizations decided to join forces in order to maximize efforts to pursue their shared missions of promoting public knowledge and understanding about international trade. For further information about the WIIT Trust, click here.

Criteria for Content--
The WIIT Trust selects materials for the library that are:

• analytically rigorous;
• comprehensive and balanced, recognizing the costs and needs for worker training and skill development but also the enhanced efficiency, productivity, innovation, and consumer welfare that results from a liberal trading system;
• relevant to current policy debates; and
• accessible to broad audiences.
  

The Trust updates and renews the material on a regular basis to ensure its timeliness. It uses the above criteria to determine whether articles submitted by academia and the public should be cataloged. If you would like to submit an article for consideration, please click here.