# asiaref - Asian Government Reference Data (History)

> asiaref - Asian Government Reference Data (History) is a paid API for AI agents from asiaref.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Returns the full historical time series for a specific government reference data series (policy rate, VAT, minimum wage, or public holidays) for a given Asian country, with citations to official primary sources.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://asiaref.dev/v1/%7Bcountry%7D/%7Bseries%7D/history
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-asian-government-reference-data-history-cb59e2ee
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_o96XpNQMUkAm2wRewSz1_

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability asiaref-asian-government-reference-data-history-cb59e2ee
```

Example prompt: Pull the full policy-rate history for India from asiaref, including the effective dates and the official RBI source citations for each change.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need authoritative, cited historical time-series data for Asian government reference values (policy rates, VAT, minimum wages, public holidays) across India, Japan, South Korea, Philippines, or Singapore, especially when provenance and official source citations are required. Prefer over scraping government websites directly when you need clean JSON with staleness indicators and structured citations for audit or compliance purposes.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid country code returns an error (only in, jp, kr, ph, sg are supported)
- Invalid series name returns an error (only policy-rate, vat-rate, minimum-wage, public-holidays are supported)
- Stale flag set to true if the value has not been recently reconfirmed against the official source
- Payment of 0.001 USDC required per call via x402 protocol; missing or failed payment returns HTTP 402
- Network timeout if asiaref.dev is temporarily unavailable

## How this service works

Authoritative Asian government reference values as clean JSON: central-bank policy rates, VAT rates, national minimum wages and public holidays for India (in), Japan (jp), South Korea (kr), Philippines (ph), Singapore (sg). Every value carries a citation to its official primary source (government gazette or central-bank statement), an effective date, a last-confirmed date and a staleness flag.

## Output

A JSON object containing the historical time series for the requested country/series combination, including each historical value with its unit, effective_from date, last_confirmed date, staleness flag, structured source citation (name and URL to official government or central bank document), country code, series name, notes with context, and a disclaimer about independent-service status.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "properties": {
   "type": "string"
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "unit": "percent",
  "notes": "MPC voted unanimously on 2025-12-05 to cut the repo rate 25bp to 5.25% with immediate effect, retaining a neutral stance. Rate corridor: Standing Deposit Facility 5.00%, Marginal Standing Facility and Bank Rate 5.50%. Held at 5.25% through the February 4-6, April 6-8 and June 3-5, 2026 MPC meetings (June 5, 2026 statement: unchanged, neutral stance; FY27 CPI projection raised to 5.1%). rbi.org.in homepage rate ticker confirmed 5.25% 'as at 1.00pm of July 20, 2026'. Next scheduled review: August 2026.",
  "stale": false,
  "value": 5.25,
  "series": "policy-rate",
  "source": {
   "url": "https://www.rbi.org.in/Scripts/BS_PressReleaseDisplay.aspx?prid=61749",
   "name": "Reserve Bank of India, Monetary Policy Statement 2025-26 — Resolution of the Monetary Policy Committee (58th meeting, December 3-5, 2025), press release of 5 December 2025"
  },
  "country": "IN",
  "disclaimer": "Independent service, not affiliated with any government. Verify against the cited official source before legal or financial use.",
  "effective_from": "2025-12-05",
  "last_confirmed": "2026-07-20"
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-asian-government-reference-data-history-cb59e2ee/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from asiaref.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/asiaref.dev/llms.txt)