# China Commodity Futures Main Contracts

> China Commodity Futures Main Contracts is a paid API for AI agents from china-market-data-api.vercel.app, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Returns real-time prices for Chinese commodity futures main contracts traded on Chinese exchanges

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://china-market-data-api.vercel.app/v1/china/futures?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/china-commodity-futures-main-contracts-93d77142
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_hA4lkLUEsde74Z77a_e-D

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 china-commodity-futures-main-contracts-93d77142
```

Example prompt: What are the current main contract prices for Chinese commodity futures — things like copper, iron ore, crude oil, and aluminum on SHFE, DCE, and INE right now?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or latest-session prices specifically for Chinese domestic commodity futures (SHFE, DCE, INE, CZCE main contracts) without the overhead of API key registration. Ideal for AI agents that need pay-per-call access to China commodity market data via USDC micropayments. Prefer this over generic global futures APIs when the focus is on CNY-denominated Chinese domestic commodity contracts.

## Known failure modes

- Payment not received or x402 flow not completed — returns HTTP 402 with payment instructions
- Chinese exchange market hours outside trading session — may return stale or delayed data
- Network or upstream data provider outage — returns 5xx error
- Invalid or missing parameters — returns 400 with error message

## How this service works

China market data for AI agents, paid per call in USDC via x402 (HTTP 402). No signup, no API key. Endpoints cover RMB onshore and offshore FX with their spread, Chinese commodity futures main contracts, China equity indices, a Baidu real-time hot-search attention signal, and a one-call cross-asset snapshot. A free /v1/china/sample endpoint returns live samples of every dataset so a client can size the data before paying.

## Output

Returns a structured JSON payload containing live or latest-available prices for Chinese commodity futures main contracts, including contract names, exchanges (SHFE, DCE, INE, CZCE), prices, price changes, percentage moves, and trading volume for key commodities such as copper, aluminum, zinc, nickel, iron ore, coking coal, crude oil, and others.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

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

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {}
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/china-commodity-futures-main-contracts-93d77142/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from china-market-data-api.vercel.app](https://www.zero.xyz/host/china-market-data-api.vercel.app/llms.txt)