Code Matching

Access code and classification cross-mapping resources that connect products, services, sectors, and industries.

The Challenge

Trade, industry, and commercial datasets use many different and often unaligned classification systems.

For example:

• merchandise trade is commonly classified using HS codes;
• services trade is commonly classified using BPM6 categories;
• industries are commonly classified using ISIC codes;
• commercial, institutional, and business datasets frequently use additional sectoral or national classification systems.

As a result:

• product opportunities identified through trade analysis do not directly identify the corresponding industry sectors;
• service opportunities identified through trade analysis do not directly identify the corresponding service industries;
• industry classifications cannot be used directly to identify specific product or service opportunities; and
• opportunities identified through trade analysis cannot easily be linked to the relevant sectors, organisations, companies, institutions, or market participants.

The Solution

Code Matching resources help connect product, service, and industry classifications.

These resources support the practical use of ATIM reports by helping users move from identified merchandise or service opportunities to the industries, sectors, organisations, companies, institutions, and trade networks associated with them.

Available Resources:

Merchandise Trade Classification Resources:

• HS → ISIC Reference Table
• ISIC → HS Reference Table

Services Trade Classification Resources:

• BPM6 → ISIC Reference Table
• ISIC → BPM6 Reference Table

Integrated Classification Resources:

• ATIM Code Dashboard
• Illustrative classification cross-mapping examples

The ATIM Code Dashboard provides interactive cross-mapping between classification systems used in merchandise trade, services trade, and industry analysis.

The example below illustrates an ISIC → HS mapping. Similar cross-mapping resources are available for HS ↔ ISIC and BPM6 ↔ ISIC classification systems.

The Next Tab, Market Discovery, illustrates how ATIM can be used to identify countries, markets, sectors, and opportunities for further investigation and trade-development activity.

Market Discovery

The Challenges

Organisations supporting international trade expansion need to identify relevant countries, markets, and opportunities for their clients, members, products, or services.

1. The first challenge is where to start.
2. The second is how to create a focused shortlist quickly and efficiently.

The Solution

Users define the criteria that are important to them. Market Discovery then generates a shortlist of countries that satisfy those requirements.

The Result

Market Discovery generates a prioritised shortlist of countries that satisfy the selected criteria.

This shortlist can then be used to generate ATIM merchandise trade reports, services trade reports, and related trade-intelligence outputs.

The Next Tab, Report Generation, illustrates how ATIM merchandise and services reports can be generated for selected countries and sectors.

Report Generation

The Challenge

Organisations require reliable trade intelligence to support decision-making, market selection, client engagement, and trade-development activities.

Generating consistent trade analysis across countries, products, services, sectors, trade corridors, and trade blocs can be complex, expensive, and difficult to scale.

The Solution

Users select the required report parameters and generate the relevant ATIM merchandise or services trade reports.

Reports are generated in minutes, included within the subscription, and produced using standardised report structures designed to be easy to use and easy to understand.

The Result

ATIM Trade Reports provide structured trade intelligence that supports practical next steps, including trade-development activity.

Together, Reference Tools, Market Discovery, and Report Generation provide a structured pathway from data and reference resources to trade intelligence and informed decision-making.

The resulting ATIM Trade Reports help organisations move from trade data to informed decisions, opportunity prioritisation, and practical trade-development activity.

Organisations seeking to strengthen market analysis, prioritisation, and trade-development planning are invited to explore how ATIM Trade Reports could support their objectives.