29 October 2010
Welcome to our new website.
There are several new features as we continue to try to accomplish our two primary goals at WorldCity: provide a connected community for the 1,100-plus multinationals in our Who's Here database, all of them with offices in the Greater Miami area, and provide a rich and deep resource for import-export trade data across the nation and world.
Second, and the biggest enhancement to our website, you can now get the latest import-export trade data for the Top 20 Customs districts and the United States' Top 20 trade partners.
That includes, for each of the Customs districts, the Top 10 exports and the Top 10 imports, the Top 10 countries that specific Customs district trades with and, in many cases, a story written specifically for that market. The same is true for the Top 20 countries. WIth each, we list the Top 10 U.S. Customs districs trading with them as well as the top U.S. exports to their nations and the Top 10 imports they send to the United States.
As part of this, you will find a World Trade Map with each of these Customs districts, which allows you to click on any country to determine the specific overall ranking, total trade, total exports, total imports and trade balance with that country. Similarly, for each of the Top 20 U.S. trade partners, there is a U.S. map, and you can click on the Top Customs districts to determine the same: overall rank, total trade, exports, imports, trade balance.
That data, which is being updated monthly, is year-to-date "movement of goods" data, as supplied by U.S. Census.
In the coming weeks, we will be more than doubling the number of Customs districts available, adding all of them, and 10 times the countries, again adding all of them.
In addition, we will be opening a special section within a matter of days where subscribers to our data service can research specific trade flows. Perhaps you would like to know the volume of computers being shipped to Brazil from the United States. You can determine not only the value but where they are leaving, ranked by Customs district.
Or perhaps you want to know the top U.S. Customs districts trading with India. Maybe you are curious what the leading U.S. exports are to China. All this is coming as well.
Finally, we will be soon adding video to the site, in a newscast format, providing you a quick update on trade flows.
If you are part of the $3 trillion U.S. import-export business, or would like to be, this will be incredibly helpful, insightful and, we hope, habit-forming.
Our digital trade data content will sit as a bridge between the annual print TradeNumbers publications we produce. Over the years, we have produced a wide range of them, including Miami TradeNumbers, U.S. TradeNumbers, Los Angeles TradeNumbers, China TradeNumbers, Perishables TradeNumbers, New Orleans TradeNumbers, New York TradeNumbers, Boston TradeNumbers, Georgia TradeNumbers, Houston TradeNumbers, Seattle TradeNumbers, South Korea TradeNumbers and Americas TradeNumbers.
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