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WebGuide Belgium

The following WebGuide, compiled by the Ypsilanti U. S. Export Assistance Center, is meant to provide an overview into the many sources of information which must be considered in making a business decision.  Your feedback is appreciated to keep this as comprehensive a document as possible.  For a copy of the Country Commercial Guide, prepared annually by the US Commercial Service, Belgium, please click here.

 

Airlines

A-Z Airfreight Directory - Belgium Airlines

http://www.azfreight.com/

British Airways

http://www.british-airways.com/ 

China Airlines In Europe

http://www.china-airlines.com/

Welcome to El-Al

http://www.elal.co.il/ 

Lufthansa

http://www.lufthansa.com/ 

Northwest Airlines WorldWeb - WorldWeb Reservations

http://www.nwa.com/travel/reser/ 

Sabena.com

http://www.sabena.com/ 

Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) - airline tickets, airfares and travel reservations

http://www.scandinavian.net/ 

Thai Airways International

http://www.thaiair.com/ 

Trabel's Airlines in Belgium

http://www.trabel.com/

Virgin Express

http://www.virgin-express.com/ 

United Airlines - Belgium

http://www.unitedairlines.be/

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Banks

In addition to the following links, the following guide may be of help: Questions for Your Banker.  It has links to several directories of worldwide banks.

ABN AMRO Bank N.V. Hoofdkantoor, Regentlaan/Bd. du Régent, 53, 1000 Brussel/Bruxelles
Tel.: +32 (0)2 546 04 60, Fax: +32 (0)2 546 04 00, HR Brussel : 505873, BTW : BE 434 676 301, SWIFT : ABNABEBR

http://www.abnamro.be/ 

Artesia Bank / Belgium

http://home.gbank.be/

AXA BANK BELGIUM 

http://www.axa.be/ 

BACOB Bank

http://www.abnamro.be/ 

BBL

http://www.bacob.be/ 

CERA Bank (Belgium)

http://www.bnb.be/ 

G-Bank Space

http://www.codoh.com/

Generale Bank

http://www.diamond-key.com/

IfBG-Universität Göttingen-Currencies and Currency Exchange

http://www.europarl.eu.int/

National Bank of Belgium

http://www.nbb.be/pub/index.htm  

Triodos Bank

http://www.uitgaan.nl/ 

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Business with Belgium

Doing business with Belgium

http://www.worldbiz.com/

Infobel.com : Belgium

http://www.infobel.be/ 

Advalvas - Belgium largest site guide, search engine and Online Services

http://www.advalvas.be/ 

How to do business in Belgium

http://www.worldbiz.com/

DNS Belgium WebSite - StartPage

http://www.dns.be/ 

Doing business with Belgium

http://www.predeparture.com/

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Belgium's Economic Outlook

OECD's Economic Outlook http://www.oecd.org/
Ernst & Young, Belgium http://www.ey.com/

UCL/IRES Economic Analysis Service : Outlook

http://www.econ.ucl.ac.be/

PricewaterhouseCoopers

http://www.pwcglobal.com/
Belgium and the IMF http://www.imf.org/external/

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Belgium's Government

Yahoo! Belgian Government

http://au.yahoo.com/

Belgian Federal Government Online

http://belgium.fgov.be/ 

Social security in Belgium

http://socialsecurity.fgov.be/ 

USA: Embassy of Belgium in Washington, D.C.

http://www.diplobel.us/ 

Federal Office for Scientific, Technical and Cultural Affairs

http://www.belspo.be/ 

Federal Department of the Environment - climate change

http://www.environment.fgov.be/

Federal Parliament of Belgium

http://www.fed-parl.be/ 

Government of Belgium

http://www.internationalist.com/ 

Belgium Law Government

http://www.lawresearch.com/

Prime Minister of Belgium

http://www.premier.fgov.be/ 

Province of Antwerp

http://www.provant.be/ 

United Nations: Permanent Mission of Belgium

http://www.un.int/belgium/ 

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Chambers of Commerce

New American Chamber of Commerce in Belgium (Amcham Belgium)

http://www.amcham.be/ 

Iran and Belgium Chamber of Commerce and Industry

http://www.ibcci.com/ 

Belgian-American Chamber of Commerce

http://www.belcham.org/ 
Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry of Belgium http://www.fccib.be/

Arab-Belgium-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce

http://www.ablcc.be/trade.htm 

Chambre de Commerce et d Industrie de Charleroi

http://www.ccic.be/ 

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Directories and Databases

ABC Belgie, ABC Belgique, ABC Belgium: directory of Belgian companies

http://www.abc-d.be/index.cgi?lang=e  

Belgium Yellow Pages

http://www.advalvas.be  

Belgium Yellow Pages

http://www.easyads.co.za/

Infobel.com : Belgium

http://www.infobel.be/ 
Kompass has served business and industry for over 50 years.  It originated in Switzerland and is now present in close to 70 countries on all continents.  http://www.kompass.com/ 

Made in Belgium, The Foreign Trade and The Investment Guide to Belgium - Belgium Business Directory, Belgium Business

http://www.madeinbelgium.be/ 
WLW - The European business directory with products and services from over 410,000 companies in 15 countries and 11 languages, categorized according to 43,000 headings.  http://www.wlw.de/

Webwatch Directory

http://www.webwatch.be/ 

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Financing Agencies

European Investment Bank

http://www.eib.org/

Yahoo! Belgium > Business and Economy

http://www.yahoo.com/

Financing Programs: Belgium

http://www.inem.org/

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General Country Information

Belgian overview http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/

Country information on Belgium

http://www.cia.gov/

Overview of the Belgian government

http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/
Fodors is known for being the best site for travel offering hotel, restaurant reviews and their series of mini-guides to specific destinations. http://www.fodors.com

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Intellectual Property Rights

EU Patent Office http://www.european-patent-office.org/
Belgian Patent Office http://www.european-patent-office.org/
European Trademark Office http://oami.eu.int/en/default.htm 

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Market Research

FEBELMAR, Belgian Market Research Federation

http://www.febelmar.be/ 

GFK Belgium

http://www.gfk.be/ 

Export.gov - portal to US Commercial Service market research about Belgium

http://www.export.gov/marketresearch.html 

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Michigan Exports

Item 2002 2003 2004 2005
Total 461653806 424398018 429092930 442776760
325 Chemical Manufactures 258924131 225935075 172009807 196775810
333 Machinery Manufactures 25886985 27652732 46114485 76129467
336 Transportation Equipment 103959180 91494049 119955267 67763272
334 Computers & Electronic Prod. 15604730 11981036 16909712 24866629
332 Fabricated Metal Products 14155680 22432229 24730296 23761608
326 Plastic & Rubber Products 19046175 13332241 14026826 19032922
339 Misc. Manufactures 10613543 8650058 8645492 11235851
327 Non-Metallic Mineral Mfgs. 2381974 5300402 5088126 6426486
335 Elec. Eq.; Appliances & Parts 3286721 4550528 3845430 4988469
331 Primary Metal Manufactures 1068544 2004522 6270510 3741575
321 Wood Products 755847 1813401 2724261 1442893
311 Processed Foods 2863450 3165453 1676086 1321781
324 Petroleum & Coal Products 31203 835069 1464666 1272900
910 Waste & Scrap 153078 371212 1239154 956866
322 Paper Products 764014 1215277 878374 800883
313 Fabric Mill Products 165173 327666 347645 694319
323 Printing & Related Products 275227 1047908 484425 669438
212 Mining 22457 340820 338841 322494
990 Spec. Classification Provisions 392971 590199 272583 275060
111 Crop Production 256609 224956 244792 111926
337 Furniture & Related Products 90177 556523 159408 88930
113 Forestry & Logging 97929 348868 0 43133
316 Leather & Related Products 59141 83041 1412212 26633
314 Non-Apparel Textile Products 759259 11920 42506 17915
920 Used Merchandise 10500 8400 112500 9500
511 Publishing Industries 0 0 0 0
315 Apparel Manufactures 29108 109891 99526 0
312 Beverage & Tobacco Products 0 14542 0 0
211 Oil & Gas Extraction 0 0 0 0

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Miscellaneous

Colleges and Universities University of Ghent, RUG-ELIS, Sint-Pietersnieuwstraat 41, B-9000 Gent, Belgium.  Head of the department: Prof. J. Van Campenhout, Tel. (secr.):32-9/ 264 33 66, Fax (secr.):32-9/ 264 35 94 http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/
Colleges and Universities Universiteit Hasselt http://www.uhasselt.be/ 
Colleges and Universities University of Namur, Computer Science Department, Rue Grandgagnage, 21, B - 5000 - Namur, Tel. +32 81 72 49 64, Fax. +32 81 72 49 67  http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/
Colleges and Universities Université Libre de Bruxelles, Computer Science Department, Boulevard du Triomphe - CP212, 1050 Brussels, Belgium.  tel: +32 2 650 56 14, fax: +32 2 650 56 09, EMail: deptinfo@ulb.ac.be  http://www.ulb.ac.be/di/ 
Search Engines AdValvas http://www.advalvas.be 
Search Engines Clickx! http://www.clickx.be 
Search Engines ilse media b.v. http://www.ilse.be 
Search Engines IN-bvba http://www.in.be 
Search Engines Lycos, Belgium http://www.lycos.be 
Search Engines MSN, Belgium http://www.msn.be 
Search Engines WebWatch

http://www.webwatch.be 
US Subsidiaries 3COM http://www.3com.be/ 
US Subsidiaries Adobe, Belgium http://www.adobe.be/ 
US Subsidiaries Apple Belgium http://www.apple.com/be/ 
US Subsidiaries Cisco Systems http://www.cisco.com/be/ 
US Subsidiaries Computer Associates Belgium, Boulevard de la Woluwe 34, Bte 13 /, Woluwedal 34, bus 13, B-1200 Bruxelles / Brussel, Phone: 02 773.28.11, Fax: 02 762.73.59, email: infos.belux@ca.com  http://www.cai.com/
US Subsidiaries Computer Sciences Corporation, Hippokrateslaan 14, 1932 Sint-Stevens-Woluwe, Belgium
+32 (0)2 714 71 11 		 http://be.country.csc.com/
US Subsidiaries EDS Belgium, Mechelen Business Tower, Blarenberglaan 2, 2800 Mechelen, Tel. +32 15 78 37 11,  Fax +32 15 78 37 50 http://www.eds.be/
US Subsidiaries H-P http://welcome.hp.com/
US Subsidiaries IBM Belgium SA/NV, Square Victoria Regina 1, B-1210 Brussels, Belgium, Tel: (32) 2 225 3333, Fax: (32) 2 225 2473, E-mail: blueline@be.ibm.com  http://www-5.ibm.com/be/ 
US Subsidiaries Ingram Micro, Belgium http://be.ingrammicro.com/ 
US Subsidiaries Intel, Belgium http://www.intel.com/
US Subsidiaries Lucent Technologies, Belgium http://www.lucent.be/ 
US Subsidiaries Microsoft N.V., Belgium & Luxembourg, Avenue Culliganlaan 1, Madison Building, 1831 Diegem, Belgium, Phone: 32(0)2 704.30.00, Fax: 32(0)2 704.35.35, Microsoft Information Center: 32(0)2 503.31.13, Fax: 32(0)2 513.71.81  http://www.microsoft.com/
US Subsidiaries Oracle, Belgium http://www.oracle.com/be/ 
US Subsidiaries Sun Microsystems Belgium & Luxembourg http://www.sun.be/ 
US Subsidiaries Xerox, Belgium http://www.xerox.be/ 

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Newspapers

De Financieel Ekonomische Tijd (Antwerp) http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/  
De Standaard (Brussels) http://www.standaard.be/ 
De Gazet van Deinze http://www.degazet.be/ 
Doc en Stoc http://www.info.cci-brest.fr/ 
ECU-Euro quarterly journal published by Ecu-Activities, Belgium. Provides coverage of the European Monetary Union, with recent documentation and statistics http://www.ecu-activities.be/ 
EUobserver Independent online EU news. (Brussels) http://www.euobserver.com/ 
Expatica.com Local and international news for expatriates living in, working in or moving abroad to Belgium. http://www.expatica.com 
Gazet van Antwerpen http://www.gva.be/ 
Het Belang van Limburg (Brussels) http://www.hbvl.be/ 
Het Volk http://www.hetvolk.be/ 
La Nouvelle Gazette http://www.lanouvellegazette.be/ 
Le Soir en ligne http://www.lesoir.be/ 
Liege Online Newsletter about the economy, tourism and cultural activities of Liege. http://www.liegeonline.be/en/ 
Tijdne http://www.tijd.be/nieuws/

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Transportation

In addition to the following links, the following guide may be of help: Questions for Your Forwarder.  It has links to several directories of worldwide freight forwarders and logistics companies.

Ahlers International

http://www.ahlers.be/ 

Astros Logistics

http://www.astrosweb.com 

Belgian Railways

http://www.b-rail.be/ 

Belgium - Port of Antwerp

http://www.portofantwerp.be/ 

Belgium - Port of Oostende

http://www.portofoostende.be 

Belgium - Port of Zeebrugge

http://www.zeebruggeport.be 

Belgium Transportation 2000 - Flags, Maps, Economy, Geography ...

http://www.photius.com/

Brussels Airport Official Website

http://www.brusselsairport.be/ 

How to reach Belgium? - Transportation possibilities

http://www.trabel.com/

Yahoo! Regional > Countries > Belgium > Business and Economy ...

http://dir.yahoo.com/

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Travel and Tourism

Belgian Tourist Office- Official Home Page

http://www.visitbelgium.com/ 
Marc Haulot, Publisher, Brusselstourism.com,  Rue du Rouge Gorge, 8-12, 1170 Bruxelles, Tel: 02/672.82.22. E-mail: marc.haulot@brusselstourism.com  http://www.brusselstourism.com 

Belgium travel and tourism information, travelogues, travel stories, trip reports

http://www.travel-library.com/

Belgium Travel Directory - Tourism

http://www.tuttinsieme.it/ 

Belgium Travel Network

http://www.trabel.com/ 

Lonely Planet World Guide | Destination Belgium | Introduction

http://www.lonelyplanet.com/

Provincie Antwerpen

http://www.provant.be 

Provincie Oost-Vlaanderen

http://www.oost-vlaanderen.be/ 

The Belgium tourist infoboard

http://www.wu-wien.ac.at/

The World Travel Guide Online - Belgium

http://www.wtg-online.com/d

Tourism

http://www.ecs.net/

Tourism Information Indexpage (English)

http://www.euregio.net/

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US Government

US Commercial Service, Brussels http://www.buyusa.gov/belgium/en/ 
US Dept. of State's Background Notes http://www.state.gov/
US Dept. of State's Consular Information Sheet http://travel.state.gov/l 
US Embassy, Brussels http://brussels.usembassy.gov/ 
CIA Factbook http://www.odci.gov/

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Weather 

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Date Updated: March 27, 2007

 
 

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