Export Promotion: Status of Commerce’s Worldwide Automated Commercial Information Management System

Citation
General Accounting Office, Export Promotion: Status of Commerce’s Worldwide Automated Commercial Information Management System (GAO/NSIAD-89-100) (Jan. 23, 1989) (http://www.gao.gov/products/NSIAD-89-100 full-text]).

Overview
The U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service, a major component of ITA, collects, analyzes, and distributes commercial information to the U.S. business community and government trade policymakers to help U.S. firms establish themselves in the export marketplace. US&FCS' Commercial Information Management System is ITA'S third attempt to develop a comprehensive, automated trade information data base. This report summarizes the status of that system's development and instrumentation.