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Company contacts now in Trade Map

31 August 2012
ITC News
ITC adds company data from more than 60 countries to Trade Map, improving the ability of companies to identify trading partners across the world.

Users of the International Trade Centre (ITC)’s Trade Map, one of the world’s biggest trade databases, have a new valuable feature at hand. Data on importing and exporting companies from more than 60 countries have been added to the already powerful tool.

Trade Map users are able to identify potential trading partners through detailed company data for nearly all products available in Trade Map. The new feature on company data is easily accessible and allows users to look up important information such as: 

  • Company name
  • City and country
  • List of traded products
  • Number of employees
  • Annual turnover
  • Contact persons
  • Website address
  • Phone numbers 

The inclusion of company data in ITC’s Trade Map comes in response to a user survey of ITC’s Market Analysis Tools, which suggested that adding company data would be an important supplement to the existing trade statistics. The addition of company data has been made possible following an agreement with Kompass International, a comprehensive Business-to-Business worldwide database.

About Trade Map (www.trademap.org)
Trade Map provides users with indicators on export performance, international demand, alternative markets and the role of competitors. It covers 220 countries and territories, 5,300 products of the Harmonized System and now company data from more than 60 countries. Trade data is also available at the tariff-line level for more than 150 countries and on a quarterly basis for more than 90 countries. 

Trade Map is part of a suite of ITC’s Market Analysis Tools. Access is free in least developed and developing countries. The tools – Trade Map, Market Access Map, Investment Map and Standards Map – help improve trade transparency and enable companies and trade support institutions to identify export and import opportunities. Visit ITC’s Market Analysis Tools at www.intracen.org/marketanalysis 

ITC is the joint agency of WTO and the United Nations and is devoted to helping small and medium enterprises in developing countries become more competitive in global markets and thus to speed up sustainable economic development and contribute to the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals.

Contact: Jacquelyn Campo
Senior Officer, Communications & Events
P: +41 22 730 0457 E: campo [at] intracen.org