# SiteCheck Trade & Energy – EAR99/ECCN eCFR Text Search

> SiteCheck Trade & Energy – EAR99/ECCN eCFR Text Search is a paid API for AI agents from api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).

Searches the US Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR) text on eCFR for a given term (e.g. EAR99 or an ECCN like 5A992) and returns matching regulatory sections with excerpts, part numbers, and section headings.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.tradeenergy-api.workers.dev/api/logistics/export-license-ear99?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-29
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/sitecheck-trade-energy-ear99-eccn-ecfr-text-search-e8347961
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_gq3i_Ytspw4nBpYtlNRZr

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 sitecheck-trade-energy-ear99-eccn-ecfr-text-search-e8347961
```

Example prompt: Search the US Export Administration Regulations for the term '5A992' and show me the matching CFR sections with excerpts — up to 5 results.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need to find and cite the actual regulatory text in the US Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR) that references a specific ECCN or EAR99 designation. It is ideal for compliance research, citation gathering, and understanding which CFR sections apply to a classification term. It does NOT make classification decisions or determine license requirements — use it strictly for regulatory text discovery and citation.

## Known failure modes

- Query term shorter than 3 or longer than 80 characters returns a validation error
- No matching sections found returns an empty hits array
- eCFR upstream service unavailable causes a failed or timeout response
- Limit parameter out of range (less than 1 or greater than 10) returns an error
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC results in HTTP 402 rejection

## How this service works

Searches the US Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR) text on eCFR for a term such as EAR99 or an ECCN, returning matching sections with a short excerpt, the part and the section. It shows regulatory text hits only; it does not decide the ECCN or licence requirement for a product.

## Output

A JSON object containing the search query, a list of regulatory hits each with CFR title, part number, section number, section heading, a short text excerpt, and the effective date of that version, plus the total number of hits found and a timestamp of when the check was run. The source URL (eCFR) is also returned.

## 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"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "q"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "q": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Search term, 3 to 80 characters, e.g. EAR99 or 5A992"
      },
      "limit": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "1 to 10, default 5"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "hits": [
   {
    "part": "740",
    "title": "15",
    "excerpt": "microphones, speakers, and headphones designated EAR99 or classified under Export Control Classification…designated EAR99; (3) Graphics accelerators and graphics coprocessors designated EAR99; (4)…classified under ECCN 5A992.c or designated EAR99; (5) Printers, including multifunctional",
    "section": "740.19",
    "effectiveFrom": "2022-09-16",
    "sectionHeading": "Consumer Communications Devices (CCD)."
   },
   {
    "part": "740",
    "title": "15",
    "excerpt": "only. (1) Consumer computers designated EAR99 or classified under Export Control Classification…classified under ECCN 5A992 or designated EAR99; (3) Input/output control units (other than…designated EAR99; (4) Graphics accelerators and graphics coprocessors designated EAR99; (5)",
    "section": "740.19",
    "effectiveFrom": "2017-11-09",
    "sectionHeading": "Consumer Communications Devices (CCD)."
   }
  ],
  "query": "EAR99",
  "source": "https://www.ecfr.gov/",
  "checkedAt": "2026-10-23T09:38:00.129Z",
  "totalHits": 674
 }
}
```

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