30 March 2004

ITDU to sponsor trade data conference

The following article is excerpted from the 29 March 2004 edition of “The Journal of Commerce”.

The International Trade Data Users will hold a conference, "International Trade Information in a Changing Environment" on May 4 in Washington….

The event is organized in cooperation with the Census Bureau's foreign trade division. ITDU is a non-profit organization comprising international trade data users and providers. The conference is being revived after a five-year hiatus.

Among the events on the agenda will be a review of recent changes by the Census Bureau and the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection in data collection procedures. A discussion of future changes regarding detailed vessel manifest information provided by customs is also featured.

Various government agencies, including the Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division, Army Corps of Engineers, STAT-USA and Statistics Canada, will demonstrate the latest tools to access data, including on non-U.S trades.

The Port Import-Export Reporting Service (PIERS), a sister company to The Journal of Commerce, will demonstrate their detailed waterborne manifest data on non-U.S. trades, including South Korea. The program will also feature a demonstration of trade information displayed in geospatial format using GIS software, a new way to analyze trade flows.

For further information about the event, contact Alvis Pauga , at 201-337-0533; e-mail: [email protected], or www.itdu.org.