Report Types

ATIM Merchandise Trade Reports can be produced from two complementary analytical perspectives:

• Product-Centric Analysis; and
• Country-Centric Analysis.

Together, these report structures support market analysis, sector review, trade-development planning, market & sector evaluation, and international trade intelligence.

Product-Centric Reports

Product-centric reports analyse international trade activity relating to specific product sectors and product classifications.

1. World Product Trade Report
Example: HS85 – Electrical Machinery and Equipment

What it does:

• Provides a global overview of a specific HS2 product sector.
• Includes market rankings, growth benchmarks, trade concentration, and product-sector analysis.

Typical Uses:

• Identify markets with the strongest demand for a specific product sector.
• Compare markets for further investigation and trade-development activity.

2. Country Product Trade Report:
Example: HS85 – Electrical Machinery and Equipment: Philippines in the Global Context

What it does:

• Examines a country's participation within a specific product sector.
• Compares national performance against global benchmarks and trade patterns.

Typical Uses:

• Assess how a country's product-sector performance compares internationally.
• Identify markets that appear responsive to products from that country.
• Support sector-focused trade missions and trade-promotion initiatives.

3. Bilateral Product Trade Report.
Example: HS85 – Electrical Machinery and Equipment: Philippines – Vietnam

What it does:

• Examines trade activity between two countries within a specific product sector.
• Identifies bilateral trade patterns, growth trends, and potential areas for further investigation.

Typical Uses:

• Assess the potential for expanding bilateral trade in a specific product sector.
• Support bilateral trade events, missions, and sector-focused initiatives.

Country-Centric Reports

Country-centric reports analyse the overall international trade structure of individual countries and trading relationships.

1. World Market Trade Report

Example: World Market Trade Report

What it does:

• Provides a global overview of international trade activity and market performance.
• Includes market rankings, growth benchmarks, and comparative trade analysis.

Typical Uses:

• Identify countries demonstrating strong international trade performance.
• Support market prioritisation and international trade-development planning.

2. Country Trade Report:
Example: Philippines and the World Merchandise Market

What it does:

• Examines a country's international trade activity in a global context.
• Identifies principal markets, product sectors, and trade relationships.

Typical Uses:

• Compare a country's international trade performance across all major product sectors.
• Identify product sectors that may merit additional investigation or support.

3. Bilateral Trade Report:
Example: Philippines – Vietnam Bilateral Merchandise Report

What it does:

• Examines the overall trade relationship between two countries.
• Identifies areas of trade concentration, growth, and potential for further investigation.

Typical Uses:

• Identify product sectors with potential for expanded bilateral trade.
• Support bilateral trade-development, investment, and commercial engagement initiatives.

Additional Report Structures

The ATIM framework also supports analysis involving regional trade blocs, economic groupings, and customised combinations of countries, sectors, product categories, and trade corridors.

All ATIM reports are supported by downloadable Global Trade Flow Tables, classification resources, methodology notes, and related analytical materials.

These resources provide access to the underlying rankings, trade-flow data, concentration measures, growth indicators, and supporting references used throughout ATIM reports.

Resources are organised into four categories:

• Introduction
• Global Data
• Country Data
• Product & Sector Data

The ATIM Resource Library provides access to these supporting materials.

The Next Tab, Using ATIM Trade Reports, explains how individual ATIM reports can be used together to support progressively more detailed market, sector, and bilateral trade analysis.

Using ATIM Trade Reports

ATIM reports are designed to support progressive investigation and analysis.

Rather than relying on a single report type, organisations can move from broad international analysis to increasingly focused market, sector, and bilateral review.

ATIM provides two complementary analytical perspectives:

• Product-Centric Analysis begins with a product sector and identifies the markets, countries, and trade relationships associated with it.
• Country-Centric Analysis begins with a country and identifies the product sectors, markets, and trade relationships associated with it.

Together, these two perspectives create six complementary report types that can be used individually or combined to support progressively more detailed trade analysis.

Product-Centric Analysis

Product-centric analysis typically begins with a World Product Trade Report.

This report identifies the principal international markets, growth benchmarks, trade concentration patterns, and product-sector activity associated with a specific HS2 product sector.

Where particular countries appear relevant, additional Country Product Trade Reports can provide more detailed analysis of national participation within the selected product sector.

Where specific trading relationships merit further investigation, Bilateral Product Trade Reports can be used to examine trade activity between two countries within the selected product sector.

World Product Trade Report

→ Country Product Trade Report

→ Bilateral Product Trade Report

Typical progression:

→ Identify markets of interest

→ Assess a country's participation within the sector

→ Examine bilateral opportunities between specific trading partners

Country-Centric Analysis

Country-centric analysis typically begins with a World Market Trade Report.

This report provides comparative analysis across reporting countries and identifies countries demonstrating notable international trade activity and growth.

Where particular countries appear relevant, additional Country Trade Reports can provide more detailed analysis of markets, product sectors, and trade relationships.

Where specific trading relationships merit further investigation, Bilateral Trade Reports can be used to identify product sectors that may benefit from additional trade-development activity.

World Market Trade Report

→ Country Trade Report

→ Bilateral Trade Report

Typical progression:

→ Identify countries of interest

→ Review national trade performance and sector activity

→ Examine bilateral trade relationships and product-sector opportunities

Typical Applications

ATIM Trade Reports can support:

• market-selection activities;
• sector-prioritisation exercises;
• trade-mission planning;
• trade-event development;
• trade-corridor identification;
• exporter and buyer targeting;
• member and client engagement;
• trade-development programme design; and
• international market-development initiatives.

Progressive Analysis

By combining different report types, organisations can move progressively from broad international analysis to increasingly focused market, sector, and bilateral review.

The result is a structured trade-intelligence process that supports prioritisation, investigation, and trade-development planning.

The Next Tab, Personalisation, explains how ATIM Trade Reports can be combined with institution-specific information to support more targeted analysis, planning, and engagement.

Personalisation

ATIM Trade Reports provide structured international trade intelligence derived from international trade datasets covering 228 countries and territories and 97 HS2 product sectors.

These reports can be used as standalone analytical resources or enhanced with institution-specific information.

From Macro Intelligence to Institutional Intelligence

ATIM Trade Reports provide macro-level trade intelligence relating to markets, sectors, countries, bilateral relationships, trade corridors, and trade blocs.

Combined with organisation-specific datasets, this intelligence can support more targeted analysis, planning, and engagement.

Examples include:

• bank payment-flow analysis;
• Google Search Console data;
• Multilingual Microsite visibility and demand signals;
• member or client activity;
• sector-specific engagement information;
• trade-event participation data; and
• institution-specific priorities and objectives.

Examples of Personalisation

Telcos may combine ATIM Trade Reports with customer-engagement and digital-service adoption information, plus visibility signals to support SME growth and market-development activities.

Banks may combine ATIM Trade Reports with payment-flow analysis to identify active trade corridors, under-served markets, emerging trade patterns, and client-development priorities.

Chambers of commerce and trade associations may combine ATIM Trade Reports with member information to identify relevant markets, sectors, and areas for further investigation.

Export-promotion organisations may combine ATIM Trade Reports with programme objectives and sector priorities to support market-selection and trade-development activities.

ATIM Trade Reports can be enhanced using institution-specific information to support more targeted analysis, planning, and engagement.

Examples include:

• payment-flow intelligence;
• Microsite and Multilingual Microsite visibility signals;
• Google Search Console data;
• member and client datasets;
• event and engagement data; and
• other institutional information sources.

Examples of Institution-Specific Data Sources include:

• BICDetective payment-flow intelligence;
• Google Search Console data;
• Microsite and Multilingual Microsite visibility and demand signals;
• member and client datasets;
• event and engagement data; and
• other institutional information sources.

More Targeted Trade Development

Combining international trade intelligence with institution-specific information supports more focused trade-development planning.

The result is a more focused understanding of markets, sectors, trade corridors, and priorities that are directly relevant to the organisation and its stakeholders.

The Next Tab, Institutional Applications, explains how different types of organisations can apply ATIM Trade Reports to support trade-development activities, engagement programmes, and organisational priorities.

Institutional Applications

ATIM Trade Reports are designed to support organisations involved in international trade development.

Telcos

Telecommunications providers can use ATIM Trade Reports to:

• support SME growth and internationalisation;
• support digital capability development;
• identify markets and sectors relevant to SME customers;
• strengthen corporate client relationships; and
• increase the value of business-service offerings.

Banks

Banks can use ATIM Trade Reports to:

• identify active and emerging trade corridors;
• support SME internationalisation;
• identify client-development initiatives;
• support trade-finance, FX, and payment activities; and
• strengthen trade-related client engagement.

Chambers of Commerce and Trade Associations

Chambers of commerce and trade associations can use ATIM Trade Reports to:

• identify markets and sectors relevant to members;
• support trade missions and trade events;
• strengthen international partner engagement;
• support export-development initiatives; and
• prioritise trade-development activities.

Export-Promotion Organisations

Export-promotion organisations can use ATIM Trade Reports to:

• support market-selection activities;
• identify priority sectors and markets;
• guide programme development;
• support trade-development planning; and
• improve resource allocation.

From Intelligence to Action

Trade intelligence is most valuable when it supports practical action.

ATIM Trade Reports help identify markets, sectors, countries, and trade relationships that may merit further investigation.

Protegra helps convert trade intelligence into practical trade-development activity.

Together, they support a more coordinated approach to international trade development.

The Next Tab, Analytical Approach, explains how ATIM Trade Reports support structured investigation and informed decision-making.

Analytical Approach

ATIM Trade Reports are designed as components of a broader trade-intelligence framework rather than as isolated analytical outputs.

The objective is not simply to present international trade statistics, but to support structured investigation, prioritisation, and trade-development planning.

Structured Analysis

ATIM applies a consistent analytical framework across countries, product sectors, bilateral relationships, trade corridors, and trade blocs.

This enables reports to be compared, combined, and expanded using a common methodology and reporting structure.

The result is a flexible trade-intelligence capability that supports progressively more detailed analysis as priorities emerge.

Evidence-Based Intelligence

ATIM does not attempt to predict outcomes or prescribe actions.

Instead, it provides structured intelligence that supports investigation, comparison, prioritisation, and informed decision-making.

The framework enables organisations to evaluate markets, sectors, countries, and trade relationships using a consistent analytical methodology.

This supports evidence-based trade-development planning, programme design, market selection, sector targeting, and trade-corridor development.

From Intelligence to Action

ATIM reports are designed to identify markets, sectors, countries, and trade relationships that may merit further investigation.

Rather than attempting to provide all possible answers within a single report, the framework supports a structured process of review, prioritisation, and follow-up analysis.

Trade Reports represent one component of a broader intelligence capability that supports market discovery, decision support, and trade-development planning.

Connected Resources

ATIM reports form part of a broader trade-intelligence and trade-development framework.

Where additional investigation is required, ExportersAlmanac provides country, sector, institutional, and international trade reference resources.

Protegra helps convert trade intelligence into practical trade-development activity.

Together, these components support informed decision-making and coordinated trade-development action.

The Next Tab, Methodology, explains the analytical framework, and reporting principles used to produce ATIM Trade Reports.

Methodology

ATIM Trade Reports use a structured analytical framework to support consistent international trade analysis.

Scope

ATIM Trade Reports currently focus on international trade in physical goods and product sectors classified using Harmonized System (HS) product codes.

Reports can be produced for more than 230 countries and territories and 97 HS2 product sectors.

Service-sector trade is not currently included within the analytical framework.

Analytical Framework

ATIM applies a consistent analytical framework across all report types.

This enables countries, sectors, bilateral relationships, trade corridors, and trade blocs to be analysed using comparable structures, metrics, and reporting principles.

Report Structures

ATIM Trade Reports can be used independently or combined to support progressively more detailed market, sector, country, and bilateral analysis.

Reporting Principles

ATIM Trade Reports are intended to support investigation, prioritisation, and trade-development planning.

The reports identify markets, sectors, countries, and trade relationships that may merit further investigation.

They are designed to support informed decision-making and should not be interpreted as commercial, financial, legal, investment, or professional advice.

ATIM Trade Reports represent one component of a broader trade-intelligence and trade-development framework.

Together with ATIM, ExportersAlmanac, and Protegra, they support structured investigation, informed decision-making, and coordinated trade-development activity.

If you would like to discuss how ATIM Trade Reports could support your organisation, please contact us at ATIM@tradetech.cloud.