Country
Reporter and partner availability differ by source. Broad global scope does not imply equal depth for every market.
Coverage atlas
Coverage is a coordinate, not a headline number
A result exists at the intersection of a country, product, year and trade flow. Current product coverage is grounded in OECD BIMTS; loaded and prepared sources do not automatically extend this boundary.
Current analytical foundation● OECD BIMTS
Geography200+ markets
Products5,300+ HS6 codes
History1995–2024
Observations312M+ trade records
Snapshot scope is not uniform availability. Coverage still varies by reporter, partner, product and year.
Four-axis atlas
Locate the observation before interpreting it
Country dashboards can be broader than HS6 analysis. Corridor and opportunity workflows require sufficiently complete observations across more than one axis.
Product
HS revision, code depth and national reporting affect which products can be compared across borders.
Year
Current OECD BIMTS history begins as early as 1995 and runs through 2024, but actual availability varies by reporter, product and series.
Flow
Imports, exports and bilateral corridors depend on the selected reporter, partner, product and period.
Reading the cells
Absence has more than one meaning
These states should remain distinct in exports, calculations and AI explanations.
- Reported value
- A source supplied a value for the selected observation.
- Reported zero
- The source explicitly reports zero; this is not the same as no record.
- Missing
- No usable observation is present. Do not infer zero trade.
- Source-marked suppression
- A value is identified as withheld where the publisher supplies that state; otherwise it may be indistinguishable from missing data.
Comparability checkpoint
Revision boundaries can change the map
HS reclassification, revised national submissions, re-export treatment and asynchronous release schedules can interrupt a long-run comparison. Review the source, reporting year and product revision before treating two cells as equivalent.
Next: inspect how metrics handle these states.
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