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Banco
de España
Though less attractive than its Lusitanian counterpart below,
the Spanish central bank's website also offers a great deal
of information: statistics, working papers, legislation, economic
indicators...
Banco
de Portugal
The Portuguese central bank's website has a tremendous amount
of information, statistics, working papers, legislation, economic
indicators... It is attractively designed, lets you choose
between HTML and Javascript versions, and the English is better
than on the Banco de España's website.
BizEurope
- Spain
This is part of a website claiming to be "Europe's leading
import and export portal and b2b portal," maintained
by a Dutch multimedia publisher called UGA
Media. In fact, its coverage is not limited to Spain,
Portugal
and the rest of Europe, but extends to most of the world.
It is aimed at "professional traders only," and
much of the site is only available to members, but businessmen
and even the idle curious will find quite a lot of free information
as well. I found its extensive link collections especially
interesting. For members, its possibilities include directories
of importers and distributors, company profiles, and buy leads.
The $150 cost of membership is too steep for me, but if you
are interested that probably means it is small change to you.
Business
in Spain
Although this site is actually the product of a web design
company, it is worth rooting around in for its wealth of links.
Camerdata
I believe this site is maintained by the Spanish Association
of Chambers of Commerce, or whatever its name is, and anyway
I am not at all sure. The most useful part of the site is
the company search engine, which I think must be the most
complete directory of Spanish companies available, except
perhaps for the Central Mercantile Registry discussed below.
The search engine is tricky to use until you get the hang
of the way it uses tax categories to classify companies. You
are limited to 10 results per search on the free version,
but if you filter with cunning this can be quite useful, or
you can pay €110 for the full search capacity.
Central
Mercantile Register - Spain
This trade register contains information on all registered
Spanish companies since 1990. I do not know how much information,
though — although so far as I can tell it is not expensive
to use, you have to print out a pdf form and mail it to register
as a user.
The
Euro
The official site. Is there an official website for the yen?
Does the dollar maintain a weblog? Is the pound given to spending
entire nights in a chatroom under a false identity, preferably
something daring and exotic like the ouguiya or the Hryvnia?
In fact, there is much of interest here, especially and unsurprisingly
in the section "Banknotes and Coins."
European
Central Bank
With the introduction of the euro, monetary policy in Europe
has been placed firmly in the hands of the ECB. Its site is
not for the uninitiated, concentrating on exchange rates and
the like, though the section dedicated to TARGET (a pan-European
bank clearing system, so far as this layman can tell) may
be of interest.
Exportugal
Official export directory of Portugal.
ICEX -
the Spanish Foreign Trade Institute
Unfortunately, a Spanish-only page with a tremendous amount
of information. The Instituto Español de Comercio
EXterior, dependent on the Spanish Ministry of the Economy,
is intended to help Spanish exporters and, therefore, foreign
buyers. Its statistics alone make it worth looking at.
IFEMA
The most important trade fairs to be held in Madrid between
now and, at the time of writing, 2006 are listed on this high-tech,
visually impressive site. It has a tendency to slide back
into Spanish, though.
Fira
de Barcelona
The Fira is to Barcelona what IFEMA is to Madrid, especially
important being the Pasarela Gaudi, a fashion show which I
believe attracts even more designers than its Madrid equivalent,
the Pasarela Cibeles (I am not an expert on this and am prepared
to be corrected).
Portugal
in Business
Trade shows, contact listing and associations and financial
institutions, from the Portugal.org people.
Portugal
Offer
This directory looks like a leg-pull to me, though I am not
saying you will not find it useful. It is the baby of one
António Neto da Silva, a "Portuguese entrepreneur
with a vast amount of experience in dealing with foreign trade
and foreign investment," who has held two public positions
related with exporting, both for around a year.
SIMO
- The Madrid Computer Trade Fair
One of the three most important computing and telecommunications
trade fairs in Europe. This site has plenty of information
both for visitors and exhibitors.
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