International Travel 

Getting a Passport or Visa -- American Passport Enterprise -- A nationally recognized, non-government, US passport service. We work with the US Passport Agency and foreign consulates to secure US passports and visas in as little as 24 hours.

US Department of State

• Passport Services and Information – U.S. Department of State -- Provides information and services to American citizens about how to obtain, replace or change a passport.
• Visa Services – U.S. Department of State -- Learn about different types of U.S. visas, the application process, and to better understand the requirements you need to meet in order to receive your visa.
• Travel Warnings and Consular Information – U.S. State Department -- What Are Travel Warnings, Consular Information Sheets & Public Announcements?
• Traveling Abroad – Deals with issues of health, safety, emergencies, registration with embassys, etc.
• Living Abroad -- Links access information about living, studying, and teaching abroad.
• Other Information – Links to other sites of information.

World Calendar and Time Zones – Timeanddate.com -- Site has all the official holidays and celebrations for most countries in the world. Provides calculators to figure time zone differences.

Embassy & Consulate Resources -- Embassy World -- Directory of world's embassies and consulates.

Fair Guide – The Exhibitors Fair Guide -- Use this guide to find fairs and exhibits to display and sell your products.

Business Travel Abroad – UNZCO.com -- It is highly recommended that company officials visit the countries to examine the markets where they are considering selling their products before any transaction occurs.

Translation

Free and Professional Translation – Free2Professional Translation – Provides a variety of translation services.

World Lingo – Translation, Globalization, Location – A variety of multilingual products and services.

Free Text Translation – AltaVista.com – Enter up to 150 words and have it translated.

Translation Experts – Translation tools for purchase.

Language Tools – Google -- Search the Web in a Foreign Language.

Exchange Rates

Understanding Exchange Rates: A Weakening U.S. Dollar--Good, Bad, or Indifferent for Florida Farmers and Agribusinesses? – University of Florida Extension -- The weakening U.S. dollar is very much talked about, but should farmers in general and those in Florida in particular really care?

Foreign Exchange Rates Daily Update -- Federal Reserve Board -- The weekly release is posted on Monday.  Daily updates of the weekly release are posted Tuesday through Friday on this site.

Agricultural Exchange Rate Data Set -- Economic Research Service USDA –-Monthly historic exchange rates.

Foreign Exchange -- Federal Reserve Bank of New York - Monitors and analyzes global financial market developments and manages the U.S. foreign currency reserves.

Trade-weighted Exchange Rates - Agricultural Issues Center, University of California. The University of California Agricultural Issues Center (AIC) calculated exchange rate indices for important "California" commodities that are weighted by a particular commodity's pattern of imports and exports.

Exchange Rate Calculators

Exchanges Rate Conversion – Oanda.com -- A multi-lingual Currency Converter with up to date exchange rates provided from leading market data contributors and is filtered for validity.

Currency Calculator – x-rates.com – A calculator to compare the value of one currency to another.

On-line Currency Converter – Science made simple – Converts the value to one currency to another.

Metric Conversions

Metric and Other Conversions -- Online Conversion -- Convert just about anything to anything else.  Over 5,000 units, and 50,000 conversions.

Online Metric Converter – Sciencemadesimple.net – Online conversion of a wide range of measurements.

Ag Calculator – Chicago Board of Trade – Bushel to metric ton conversions.

Conversion Factors for Trade and Commerce – National Institute of Standards and Technology – A comprehensive listing of conversions.

The Everyday Metric System – A listing of common metric conversations -- U.S. Metric Association.

Metric Symbols – U.S. Metric Association -- Commonly-used metric system units, symbols, and prefixes.

Area Calculator - Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts square inches to square centimeters, square feet to square meters, square yards to square meters, square miles to square kilometers, square acres to square hectares and vice-versa.

Capacity Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Aberta Government -- Converts gallons to liters and vice-versa.

Length Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts inches to centimeters, feet to meters, yards to meters, miles to kilometers and vice-versa.

Mass Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts ounces to grams, pounds to kilograms and vice-versa.

Volume Calculator – Ropin’ the Web, Alberta Government -- Converts cubic inches to cubic centimeters, cubic yards to cubic meters, cubic feet to cubic meters and vice-versa.