The Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI) is a broad programme to promote economic development through private sector initiative in the Central American and Caribbean countries. Subjects dealt with are preferential trade opportunities, customs procedures, U.S. regulatory requirements.

A research guide locating reliable sources on industry, markets, countries, products, and regulations for doing business internationally. The reference volume includes primary, secondary, and reference sources, periodicals, indexes, government documents and computerized sources available through February 1996. The 800 sources are annotated and provide, when appropriate, locator numbers for government documents and order numbers for book purchases. The guide does not list journal articles or dissertations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR