Violation Tracker
Produced by the Corporate Research Project, Violation Tracker tracks the biggest corporate regulatory violators and criminal offenders in the U.S., UK, and globally. Violations cover banking, consumer protection, false claims, environmental, wage & hour, safety, discrimination, price-fixing, and other cases resolved by federal regulatory agencies, parts of the Justice Department, state attorneys general, and selected state and local regulatory agencies. Cases originate from over 450 agencies, for both civil and criminal matters, as well as specific categories of class action lawsuits.
Basic and Advanced search features allow for granular retrieval of information. The Company Summaries feature lets you view the penalty total for a company, the top five offense groups and primary offense types, as well as individual penalty records. In October 2024, Violation Tracker Global was introduced, which covers 45 countries on penalties from over 700 regulatory agencies and other government bodies. The UK Tracker covers England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
USA Trade Online
USA Trade Online is produced by the U.S. Census Bureau and provides exports and imports data on more than 17,000 commodities and allows users to create customized reports. Data can be filtered based on several categories, including commodity type, measure of value ($value, quantity, or unit value), country, state, district, port, and time. Additional filtering can be done by geographic region, trade agreement, and international organization. Trade statistics are provided using the Harmonized System up to the 10-digit level and the NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) commodity classification codes up to the 6-digit level.
Data are updated each month with the release of the latest U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services Report. So, the release of April 2025 data will be on June 5, 2025 and May 2025 data will be July 3, 2025. Available data can be found here.
TheGlobalEconomy.com
This site is an all-in-one shop for accessing selected global indicators covering key socio-economic categories. Users can “compare countries over time, look at global, continental, and regional rankings, and track how a given indicator evolves over time in a country.” To get an idea of the comprehensive nature of this site, there are over 500 indicators for over 200 countries available for access, with sources that include central banks, national statistical institutes, and multiple international organizations. Its growth has been organic as it started in 2012 as an extension of the Global Economy class taught by Neven Valev developed at Atlanta’s Georgia State University. The feature that lets you compare countries is best for historical data. Examples of categories of economic indicators:
- GDP and economic growth
- Business cycle indicators
- Consumption and investment
- Money
- Labor market
- International trade and investment
- Government
- Governance and business environment (including corruption)
- Political System
- Infrastructure and transport characteristics
- Energy and environment
- Agriculture sector
- Banking system
- Innovation measures
- Economic freedom indexes
- Inequality and poverty
- Globalization indexes
- Minerals
- Fragile state index
Tariff Trackers
These are sites that have recently introduced open access tariff trackers.
Supply Chain Dive – This publication is tracking where each tariff currently stands, “threatened or realized” and is updating content as new developments occur. In the table provided, you can filter by sector or country for the most impactful ones.
Project44 – Project44, a high-velocity supply chain platform provider, makes available a page with up-to-date overviews of “recent tariff changes and their impact on global trade.” It tracks only tariffs that have had concrete dates announced.
Reed Smith – At this site, Reed Smith’s International Trade and National Security team “tracks the latest threatened and implemented U.S. tariffs, as well as counter-tariffs from other countries around the world,” with commentary by Reed Smith lawyers.
Atlantic Council – This think tank is monitoring the evolution of tariffs since the beginning of the second Trump administration. The Tariff calendar allows you to click on a date to see the announcement or policy. (Atlantic Council is independently rated right-center on bias scale.)
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