PIERS Trade Profiles (January 21, 2009)
Is your firm advising clients on how to expand their global presence? Do you need benchmark information for how much importing/exporting is done in a particular industry? Does your firm advise clients on intellectual property infringement or counterfeiting? Do you need underlying data to be used in resolving a client's trade dispute? Does your firm's international trade practice need guidance on trade trends and forecasts?
If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, then you should be taking advantage of PIERS Trade Profiles on lexis.com®. PIERS provides the most timely, accurate, comprehensive information available on waterborne trade through U.S. ports and key points of entry in Latin America and Asia. The data is gathered directly from the manifest and bills of lading filed with U.S. Custom and Border Protection. Data is collected from over 90,000 bills of lading every day. In addition, the profiles also include D&B® D-U-N-S® Number, SIC, number of employees and sales volumes. What's more, PIERS databases offer historical data back to the 1950s, trade finance data, and Asia and Latin American trade data. PIERS economists and researchers supply expert data analysis and interpretation to support decision-making, while detailed and customizable datasets yield solutions for cross-border marketing, supply chain management and competitive intelligence. A roster of over 6,000 private industry, trade association, and domestic and foreign government clients, representing more than 40 countries, relies on PIERS to translate trade data into meaningful intelligence that guides their global business strategies.
The PIERS Trade Profiles database can be found online on lexis.com at:
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