Doing Business With FAS
Search Engines and Databases

• AgExporter Online Magazine: See FAS Worldwide Online Magazine.
  
  
• Attaché Reports: Search and view nonclassified reports from agricultural attachés. Search by country, date, commodity, or combinations of variables. Sign up for email alerts when new reports become available.
  
  
• Bulk, Intermediate, and Consumer Oriented (BICO) Foods and Beverages Reports: Search by commodity and country for bulk, intermediate, and consumer-oriented agricultural product data by calendar or fiscal year.
  
  
• Buyer Alerts: Search advertisements published in the Buyer Alert newsletter during the past two months.
  
  
• FAS Field Offices: Locate contact information for FAS field offices by country, staff, or geographic area.
  
  
• FAS News Releases: Search for news releases from FAS covering a variety of events associated with agricultural trade.
  
• FAS Subjects Database: Find telephone, telefax, and email contact information for FAS staff by subject area. For example, a search on "almonds" gives information on FAS’s almond marketing programs as well as almond production and trade reports.  Users can also search by program description.
  
• FAS Worldwide Online Magazine: Search for articles from issues of FAS Worldwide magazine by countries, commodities, trade agreements, keywords, and/or programs. Search results can be limited to specific issues of FAS Worldwide.
   
• FAIRS Report: Search by country to find technical requirements (i.e. food laws, labeling, import procedures, etc.) before exporting food and agricultural products.
  
  
• Foreign Agricultural Trade of the United States (FATUS): Search for U.S. agricultural exports and imports, by commodity, with all countries and regions of the world. Data is available in MS Excel format, and is broken down by state, calendar year, and other measures.
  
  
• Hot Country Pages: Search the latest attaché reports that have been released about specific countries. Countries are only listed if there has been a report issued about them in the past two weeks.
  
  
• PSD Online: Search current and historical official USDA data on production, supply, and distribution of agricultural commodities for the United States and key producing and consuming countries. Select from a menu of pre-defined tables categorized by commodity or commodity group, or create custom queries for specific commodities, attributes, and/or countries.
  
  
• Trade Show Database: Find out about upcoming trade shows to promote products, as well as links to how to participate in shows. USDA-sponsored shows and others are included.

• Trade Leads Service Database: US suppliers can sign up to receive email alerts from FAS about trade leads that can lead to sales. 
  
  
• USDA Directory: Search for Washington-based USDA staff e-mail addresses, telephone numbers, and mailing addresses.
  
  
• U.S. Suppliers: Learn how to contact qualified U.S. suppliers of food, farm, seafood, and forest products.
  
  
• U.S. Trade Database: Access various databases with complete information on U.S. exports, imports, and re-exports of agricultural, fish, forest, and textile products with the world. Search using a variety of criteria, including BICO, FAS, FATUS, HS-2, HS-4, HS-6 and HS-10.
  
  
• WTO Tariff Schedules: Search Uruguay Round Agreement tariff schedules by country or chapter.

FAS also provides the following online information, registration, and application services to help users do business with us: