alexandersimoes
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10 years ago Thanks for your comments, I have just looked into this issue you mention about canada's exports being incorrent and it seems this is due to a discrepency between the BACI cleaned dataset we are using and the raw comtrade data (closer to what is reported by countries). I'm not sure if you're familiar with the issues and discrepencies that can arise when using export datasets but I would suggest giving this paper a read - http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/fr/publications/wp/abstract.asp?NoDoc=2726, as this organization is the source of the data we are using.
Just to be sure the issue wasn't on our end I revisited the raw BACI data and found petroleum completely lacking from the top exports (as your mentioned) for 2012! In fact it is the 20th product, take a look below to see the top 20 exports by value:
| hs4 | val_usd | name |
|---|---|---|
| 8703 | 47632275183.732254 | Cars |
| 8802 | 7322189599.078005 | Planes Helicopters and/or Spacecraft |
| 2701 | 6766734993.451672 | Coal Briquettes |
| 3104 | 6519906299.203524 | Potassic Fertilizers |
| 1001 | 6317661362.084509 | Wheat |
| 7601 | 5570989188.4639845 | Raw Aluminium |
| 1205 | 5190981929.15665 | Rapeseed |
| 3004 | 5162262035.540839 | Packaged Medicaments |
| 2601 | 4569647193.567511 | Iron Ore |
| 4703 | 4390976471.110193 | Sulfate Chemical Woodpulp |
| 3901 | 4022054689.275655 | Ethylene Polymers |
| 7108 | 3730861085.933786 | Gold |
| 1514 | 3398593051.0063996 | Rapeseed Oil |
| 8411 | 3231886350.0235434 | Gas Turbines |
| 2603 | 3107533150.159405 | Copper Ore |
| 0203 | 2828447043.5027623 | Pig Meat |
| 8803 | 2758516000.644594 | Aircraft Parts |
| 8407 | 2740172896.059031 | Spark-Ignition Engines |
| 7501 | 2563312388.97497 | Nickel Mattes |
| 2710 | 2514531074.55837 | Refined Petroleum |
We are looking to add the raw comtrade export data to the platform in the future, so hopefully this should resolve many of the data issues you and others have found.
Hello,
I just wanted to point out that the data on the Canada profile are incorrect (http://atlas.media.mit.edu/profile/country/can/).
Specifically, there appear to be a lot of products missing on the export side and the breakdown does not match official data from the Canadian government's trade databases. Notably, oil exports, the most important good export, are missing in the breakdown. You can confirm this through the following site: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/tdo-dcd.nsf/eng/home
On another note, I suggest you provide a generic e-mail address that people can use to send comments as well. I almost did not submit this comment because I didn't feel like creating a log in.
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