Not necessarily. Rather to make it difficult for you to actually challenge their decision that trade is good.

Likewise with everything else the government does. They don't like you to have good hard data that proves they are doing a lousy job of things. They go to great lengths to make it difficult for you to get that data.

Good data is out there, but it has to be 'distilled' from the Government sources by serious experts in their fields - who have only a small audience for the 'good data'.