# asiaref - Asian Government Reference Data Series

> asiaref - Asian Government Reference Data Series 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 a single government reference data series (e.g. policy rate, VAT, minimum wage, public holidays, CPI, corporate tax, income tax) for a specific Asian country.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://asiaref.dev/v1/:country/:series
- 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-series-ee6d0a15
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hILttKkj_rOog-6TZCjnC

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-series-ee6d0a15
```

Example prompt: What is the current VAT rate in Indonesia? Pull it from asiaref using the 'vat' series for country code 'id'.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, structured government reference data for a specific Asian country and series type — especially useful for financial modeling, compliance checks, or regional business analysis requiring official rates like VAT, corporate tax, or central bank policy rates across Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, or Vietnam.

## Known failure modes

- Unsupported country code returns error (only bd, id, in, jp, kr, my, ph, sg, th, vn supported)
- Unsupported series identifier returns error (only policy-rate, vat, minimum-wage, public-holidays, cpi, corporate-tax, income-tax supported)
- Stale flag set to true if data is past expected update cycle — caller should treat value with caution
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC micropayment not completed
- Network timeout or upstream source unavailability

## How this service works

Government reference data series

## Output

A JSON object containing the series value (numeric rate or array of holiday objects), effective date, last confirmed date, unit, source attribution, staleness flag, and optional breakdown of composite rate components for the requested country and series.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "pathParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "country",
      "series"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "series": {
       "enum": [
        "policy-rate",
        "vat",
        "vat-registration-threshold",
        "minimum-wage",
        "public-holidays",
        "cpi",
        "corporate-tax",
        "withholding-tax",
        "statutory-interest",
        "income-tax",
        "social-contributions",
        "fx-reference"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Reference series id"
      },
      "country": {
       "enum": [
        "ae",
        "bd",
        "bh",
        "cn",
        "hk",
        "id",
        "il",
        "in",
        "iq",
        "jo",
        "jp",
        "kr",
        "kw",
        "kz",
        "lk",
        "my",
        "np",
        "om",
        "ph",
        "pk",
        "qa",
        "sa",
        "sg",
        "th",
        "tr",
        "tw",
        "uz",
        "vn"
       ],
       "type": "string",
       "description": "ISO country code"
      }
     }
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {},
     "additionalProperties": false
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/asiaref-asian-government-reference-data-series-ee6d0a15/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)