International Trade and Business Resource Guide: International Market Research

Produced by Euromonitor, this database provides very detailed international market research, presented as industry, company, country, and consumer reports. Although difficult to use, users may find detailed reports on specific subsets of industries throughout the world. Three recent examples are reports on the market for fast food in Germany, the retailing of durable goods in Egypt, and products and services in the market for eye care in Taiwan. See the guide "Country Information in Euromonitor's Passport."

A portion of the TradePort website, this section discusses how to classify your product and how to identify and evaluate potential markets.

"Fully searchable market access reports with information on foreign trade policies and regulations." Users may search for a report by country and keyword, or browse an alphabetical listing of 'trade policy review' reports for 124 countries. The dates on the reports range from 1995 to 2009.

Resources include the Country Commercial Guides (free), and "more than 100,000 industry and country-specific market reports, authored by our specialists working in overseas posts." The latter had also been freely available, but now users are required to register and either be a researcher or associated with a U.S.company.

An indexing study done in 2010 by Michigan State University's globalEDGE site, with the goal of "ranking the market potential of 24 countries identified as "Emerging Markets" by The Economist." Archives of earlier studies, 1996-2009, are also available.