Let us begin answering this question by looking at some trade statistics and posing two more questions: How many golf clubs do US firms export each year? How many of these currently go to Argentina?
If you click on the “Statistics Sources” button on the menu bar to the left of this screen, you will jump to the IBRC statistics resources page. The first resource listed is a reference to the U.S. Import and Export History Database at Kerr State University in Oregon. Click on the link here and you will jump to their web site, the result of an initiative with the Small Business Administration. One of the choices on their menu page is “Go to Imports / Exports”. Click on this and you will be presented with a choice of information options on either imports or exports for the period 1993 – 1997. Choose the specific commodity information section under the exports section. This page will now offer you the option of typing in a key word or finding a broad category of exported products or services. If you type in the words “golf clubs” in the search box, you will be presented with a highlighted sub category entitled “Toys, Games & Sports Equipment” If you click on this you will leap (not neces
