The US Department of Commerce's Bureau of Economic Analysis has available the Survey of Current Business. The publication provides a mixture of analytic articles and numerical tables on various subjects. It is highlighted by a monthly Business Situation section that discusses topics such as prices, personal income, consumption, exports and imports, and government spending. The periodical also...

The Office of Advocacy of the US Small Business Administration (discussed in the September 25, 1997 Scout Report for Business & Economics) profiles small businesses in all states for 1995-1997 and small businesses in the entire US for 1997 at this site. The profiles are snapshot views that include such topics as the number of businesses, income, minority businesses, turnover, finance, job growth,...

This report, known as the FT900, is published monthly by the Foreign Trade Division of the Bureau of the Census. It includes information about US imports and exports and other foreign trade statistics. The July 1999 issue reports that "total July exports of $79.0 billion and imports of $104.2 billion resulted in a goods and services deficit of $25.2 billion, $0.6 billion more than the deficit of...