# China Customs & Trade Data API

> China Customs & Trade Data API is a paid API for AI agents from agentdatum.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns official monthly China customs data including exports YoY, imports YoY, and trade balance figures

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agentdatum.com/api/v1/china/customs
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/china-customs-trade-data-api-28896d93
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_miD79gpSFNy7Pby3JOrw8

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-customs-trade-data-api-28896d93
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest official China customs data — I need exports YoY, imports YoY, and the trade balance for my macro research report.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official, authoritative monthly China customs statistics (exports YoY, imports YoY, trade balance) in a single lightweight GET call. Prefer this over scraping Chinese government websites or using broad economic data aggregators when you specifically need China trade flow metrics and want structured, machine-readable output at low per-call cost.

## Known failure modes

- Data not yet released for the current month if requested before official publication
- HTTP 402 Payment Required if x402 payment header is missing or invalid
- Rate limiting or authentication errors if the payment token is malformed
- Endpoint may return stale data if upstream customs data source has not refreshed

## How this service works

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## Output

Returns official monthly Chinese customs statistics including year-over-year export growth rate, year-over-year import growth rate, and the trade balance figure, sourced from China's official customs authority.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {}
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "exports_yoy_pct": 6.2,
  "imports_yoy_pct": 3.1,
  "trade_balance_usd": 82.5
 }
}
```

## More

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