Bhutan electricity export do not show up

[gagarine]

Bhutan has hydroelectric plants and export electricity (mainly to India).

Src: https://www.mof.gov.bt/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/BTS2016.pdf

Yet electricity do not show up at all on https://oec.world/en/visualize/tree_map/hs92/export/btn/all/show/2017/

[gagarine]

So I clearly have another kind of result from http://atlas.cid.harvard.edu/explore?country=35&product=undefined&year=2017&productClass=HS&target=Product&partner=undefined&startYear=undefined

[alexandersimoes]

I'm not sure the source of their data but we are using trade data from the BACI database of CEPII. I just redownloaded the latest files from their source and here is what they claim the top 20 exports for Bhutan were in 2017:

hs6	t	i	j	v	q	hs6_name
720221	32272	1024	8080	118322.101764943	105491.02800000002	Ferro-silicon, >55% silicon
284910	2017	64	699	12424.453981999999	19113.44	Calcium carbide
284920	2017	64	699	10314.950679000001	18341.0	Silicon carbide
251810	2017	64	699	9535.284371200001	1770656.0	Dolomite not calcined
252010	2017	64	524	5110.6950495	110961.0	Gypsum, anhydride
720719	2017	64	699	3540.7354232000002	9782.62	Semi-finished product, iron or non-alloy steel <0.25%C, nes
090830	2017	64	699	3444.92	496.543	Cardamoms
220210	2017	64	699	2948.9111183	9463.493	Beverage waters, sweetened or flavoured
270119	2017	64	524	2154.5037829999997	19467.3	Coal except anthracite or bituminous, not agglomerate
392010	2017	64	699	2037.0770000000002	960.6669999999999	Sheet/film not cellular/reinf polymers of ethylene
251830	2017	64	699	1879.9816782999999	392106.0	Agglomerated dolomite (including tarred dolomite)
392099	2017	64	699	1784.386	758.319	Sheet/film not cellular/reinf plastics nes
200980	2017	64	699	1571.3189824	1923.865	Single fruit, veg juice nes, not fermented or spirite
441010	2017	64	699	1338.5211053	1162.9189999999999	Particle board of wood
720229	12102	384	2570	1252.0823022119998	2664.79	Ferro-silicon, <55% silicon
391810	2017	64	251	1157.4562353000001	5.185	Floor, wall, ceiling cover, roll, tile, vinyl chlorid
740819	2017	64	699	1152.138	183.94799999999998	Wire of refined copper < 6mm wide
720299	6051	192	2134	968.750078586	713.87	Ferro-alloys, nes
680221	2017	64	699	931.52084021	1485.0870000000002	Cut or sawn slabs of marble, travertine or alabaster
220720	2017	64	699	908.13660274	1400.0	Ethyl alcohol and other spirits, denatured

Here is a link to find out more about their cleaning methodology: http://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/presentation.asp?id=1.

[gagarine]

Thanks for this data export. I contacted cepil by email but they didn't give me access to those data. So it was a bit hard for me to know where was the problem.

I believe the data in COMTRADE are correct but the one in CEPIL seem wrong. Why? Because tools that use COMTRADE data directly seem to report electricity export correctly.

I understand CEPIL they compare export/import from different country to try to catch error in reporting. Yet India and Bhutan report both import and export respectively of electricity from each other. I aks them to look into the problem, not sure they will do it.

[gagarine]

Or perhaps CEPIL is only about physical product exchange?

[gagarine]

#253 is related.
My conclusion is that CEPIL only account for physical good. In my opinion, this is very misleading about the reality of the economy of a country.