The central issue of trade by enterprise characteristics is to disaggregate trade flows according the characteristics of the enterprises engaged in cross-border transactions. The feasibility of doing so largely depends on the possibility of using or developing common identifiers between the trade register and the business register. Countries differ in their ability to perform such a linking, and matching ratios (between business and trade registers) vary across countries, and as a consequence the degree of representativeness of the results also varies across countries.
This dataset on international trade includes import and export statistics on trade classes in terms of size comprising indicators by number of trading enterprises and trade value, sector according to the economic sector in International Standard Industrial Classification Rev. 4 (ISIC). Partner zones both include Extra and Intra EU Trade. Data are presented by size class (0-9, 10-49, 50-249, 250+) with respect to ISIC 2 digit sectors by reporter country, partner zone, indicator and flow.