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Bureau of Industry and Security
The mission of the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is to advance U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic interests. BIS's activities include regulating the export of sensitive goods and technologies in an effective and efficient manner; enforcing export control, antiboycott, and public safety laws; cooperating with and assisting other countries on export control and strategic trade issues; assisting U.S. industry to comply with international arms control agreements; and monitoring the viability of the U.S. defense industrial base and seeking to ensure that it is capable of satisfying U.S. national and homeland security needs..

Cargo Tracking
General Cargo Tracking site; not affiliated specifically with Phoenix shipments.

CarnetsOnline.com
Provided by Roanoke Trade, a Carnet is a type of temporary international Customs document that allows for many types of imports into another country.

Environmental Protection Agency
The mission of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment — air, water, and land — upon which life depends.

Export Import Bank of the United States
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank) is an independent U.S. Government agency that helps finance the overseas sales of U.S. goods and services.

Federal Trade Commission
The Federal Trade Commission enforces a variety of federal antitrust and consumer protection laws. The Commission seeks to ensure that the nation's markets function competitively, and are vigorous, efficient, and free of undue restrictions.

Food and Drug Administration
FDA ensures that the food we eat is safe and wholesome, that the cosmetics we use won't harm us, and that medicines, medical devices, and radiation-emitting consumer products such as microwave ovens are safe and effective. FDA also oversees feed and drugs for pets and farm animals.

International Trade Administration
The International Trade Administration is dedicated to helping U.S. businesses compete in the global market place.

Journal of Commerce
Read the latest industry news articles and search their database by various topics.

Overseas Private Investment Corporation
The Overseas Private Investment Corporation is an independent U.S. Government agency that assists U.S. companies investing in some 140 emerging economies around the world.

Oceanschedules.com
Search over 5,000,000 voyage options across many global and regional carriers.

TradeAgreements.gov is an interagency effort by the United States Government to provide the public with the latest information on America's trade agreements.

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USA Zip Code Directory
Get geographic & demographic info related to a ZIP, city or phone.

U.S. Agency for International Development
USAID is an independent federal government agency that conducts foreign assistance and humanitarian aid to advance the political and economic interests of the United States.

U.S. Customs Service
The mission of the United States Customs Services is to ensure that all goods and persons entering and exiting the United States do so in accordance with all United States laws and regulations.

U.S. Department of Agriculture
USDA serves all Americans, the farmer as well as everyone who eats, wears clothes, lives in a house, or visits a rural area or a national forest. USDA assists America's farmers and ranchers; but also is responsible for the safety of meat, poultry, and egg products, helps ensure open markets for U.S. agricultural products, and much more.

U.S. Department of Commerce
The Department of Commerce promotes job creation, economic growth, sustainable development, and improved living standards for all Americans, by working in partnership with business, universities, communities, and workers to: (1) Build for the future and promote U.S. competitiveness in the global marketplace, by strengthening and safeguarding the nation's economic infrastructure; (2) Keep America competitive with cutting-edge science and technology and an unrivaled information base; and, (3) Provide effective management and stewardship of our nation's resources and assets to ensure sustainable economic opportunities.

U.S. Department of Energy
The Department of Energy is a leading science and technology agency whose research supports our nation's energy security, national security, environmental quality, and contributes to a better quality of life for all Americans.

U.S. Department of Labor
The U.S. Department of Labor is charged with preparing the American workforce for new and better jobs, and ensuring the adequacy of America's workplaces.

U.S. Department of State
U.S. diplomacy is an instrument of power, essential for maintaining effective international relationships, and a principal means through which the United States defends its interests, responds to crises, and achieves its international goals. The Department of State is the lead institution for the conduct of American diplomacy, a mission based on the role of the Secretary of State as the President's principal foreign policy adviser.

U.S. Department of Transportation
The Department serves as the focal point in the Federal Government for the coordinated national Transportation Policy. It is responsible for transportation safety improvements and enforcement, international transportation agreements and the continuity of transportation services in the public interest.

U.S. Department of the Treasury
The basic functions of the Department of the Treasury include:
Managing Federal finances; Collecting taxes, duties and monies paid to and due to the United States and pays all bills of the United States; Producing all postage stamps, currency and coinage; Managing Government accounts and the public debt; Supervising national banks and thrift institutions; Advising on domestic and international financial, monetary, economic, trade and tax policy; Enforcing Federal finance and tax laws; Investigating and prosecutes tax evaders, counterfeiters, forgers, smugglers, illicit spirits distillers, and gun law violators; Protecting the President, Vice President, their families, candidates for those offices, foreign missions resident in Washington and visiting foreign dignitaries.

U. S. Fish & Wildlife Service
The principal agency to conserve, protect, and enhance fish, wildlife, plants, and their habitats for the continuing benefit of you, the American public. They enforce Federal wildlife protection laws, such as the Endangered Species Act.

U. S. Import Duty Rates
This page contains the chapter-by-chapter listing of the Harmonized Tariff Schedule and general notes.

U.S. Small Business Administration
The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) was created by Congress in 1953 to help America's entrepreneurs form successful small enterprises. Today, SBA's program offices in every state offer financing, training and advocacy for small firms.

U.S. International Trade Commission
The USITC is an independent, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides objective trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement.

U.S. Trade Development Agency
The U.S. Trade and Development Agency assists in the creation of
jobs for Americans by helping U.S. companies pursue overseas business opportunities.

U.S. Trade Representative
The Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) is responsible for developing and coordinating U.S. international trade, commodity, and direct investment policy, and leading or directing negotiations with other countries on such matters.