Listing of EU/EC and other sources of general information, and in the windowpane at the left by country, in this list only the current 17 Eurozone countries. 
 

• Wikipedia on Incoterms and the site of the International Chamber of Commerce ICC on Incoterms

 

• EUROPE.EU, the official website of the EU
• What the EU does for Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's)
• The European Small Business Portal, in all languages of the EU
• The European Commission on Trade, dedicated to trade and export from the EU perspective
• Export Credit Agencies (ECAs) websites of the EC
• The EU's Market Access Database, your guide to cracking world markets
• TDI Trade Defence Instruments, a site of the European Community to take a stand against unfair trade practices like dumping and subsidizing.
• The Swiss Import Promotion Program offers an interesting document about export to Europe. It contains a lot of information about the European countries, demographic and social characteristics, logistics, communication and many other aspects.
• Trading Economics with simple access to current economic data.
• The European Voice, another perspective on Europe

 

• New Februari 19, 2012 click here for downloading of The General Report on the Activities of the European Union 2011

Other (unsponsored) links to useful websites

• Research Project Maastricht of the young and prestigious Maastricht University where (in principle) Dutch companies can join in a Country/Market research in 2013 with this time Brazil as exportmarket to investigate

 

• Wikipedia on market research and on GDP per country to compare countries
• Greenbook, a guide for buyers of market research with descriptions of market research companies.
• Free Management Library, with topics on market research and other subjects.
• Tradeport (Californian repository of free information on trade) and their tutorial on export
• Trade credit insurance as described in Wikipedia
• Business Link the UK's government initiative. This links to their pages about international trade and has a structured approach and case stories. IOE, the Institute of Export offering training
• Strong & Herd export services with interesting articles about export
• Dutch Rabobank's page offering country-fact sheets 
• Google's help with Global Advertizer
• Currency conversion with XE or with OANDA
• A site from South Africa, useful for the links to info about African countries
• China Business Handbook from the U.S. Department of Commerce.
• Baker and McKenzie on export developments, review from end 2011