# Gaps — Tariffs & RCEP SEA (`tariffs_rcep`)

**As of:** 22 September 2026 (BST)

## Intentional empties / caveats

| Gap | Detail |
|-----|--------|
| **TLS binding coverage** | WDI `TM.TAX.MRCH.BC.ZS` empty for Timor-Leste across pull window — cell left empty. |
| **WDI binding coverage 2022 = 0** | IDN, KHM, MYS, THA show `0` in 2022 while prior years are ~76–100%. Treated as **data artifact**; scoreboard uses last **non-zero** year (2021) with note. Timeseries retains the suspect 2022 zeros with SUSPECT flag. |
| **Tariff vintage** | Latest WDI applied/MFN means are **2022** for AMS-10 and **2021** for TLS — badge years; not 2025/26 live customs schedules. |
| **RCEP preferential rates** | **Out of scope for this pack.** Companion **delivered** 2026-10-02 as `topics/rcep_preference_margins/` (APEC Day-1 duty-free shares + sparse util + ERIA margin bands). This pack still locks **legal EIF + applied/MFN only**. Dual story: applied MFN ≠ preferential access. |
| **Duty-free import share** | No clean SEA-11 WDI series locked without invention — omitted rather than guessed. |
| **TLS & RCEP** | Timor-Leste is **not** an RCEP Party — `rcep_party=N`, `rcep_in_force=N`, empty EIF date. |
| **Myanmar political caveat** | RCEP EIF 4 Mar 2022 locked from MTI SG; applied tariffs still published in WDI 2022 — conflict/data-quality caveat for interpretation, not for inventing blanks. |
| **ASEAN portal scrape** | Direct `asean.org` HTML fetch blocked (Sucuri JS challenge). EIF dates locked via MTI Singapore primary page extract + ASEAN Secretariat press titles cited in secondary reports (VietnamPlus / ASEAN press headlines for ID/PH). |
| **Site mirror path** | Mirror target is `/workspace/projects/asean-in-data/data/packs/tariffs_rcep/` (not bare `/projects/...`). |

## Not gaps (do not invent)

- Singapore near-zero applied tariffs are real, not missing.
- Applied < MFN for many AMS is expected (preferences already in “applied” means) — do **not** narrate as “RCEP cut already in the MFN column”.
- Empty preferential-rate columns are intentional — see out-of-scope above.