- Type
- not stated
- Format
- Tabular (relational online database with member query/download export; also delivered as monthly bespoke reports and quarterly PDF market updates)
- Volume
- Order of 100M+ monthly country-commodity trade cells (131 countries x thousands of 6/8/10-digit HS codes x monthly observations; 78 countries with history from the 1980s), plus a 44-year physical archive of the underlying statistics
- Users
- ~300-1,500 named institutional TES seats (inferred: subscription-only member login, 7-person staff, serving metals, steel, financial and business sectors globally)
- History
- 45 years
- Update frequency
- not stated
- Growth
- Mature but actively maintained — current-year (2026) monthly EU trade updates and quarterly market commentary still being published; business model unchanged for decades
- Launched
- 1979 (self-dated 'leading supplier of global trade data since 1979'; organisation originated as British Steel Corporation's statistics department before the 1988 privatisation)
- Delivery
- not stated
- Entity mapping
- not stated
- Sample
- not stated
- Point-in-time
- not stated
- Licence
- not stated