# Teuerung HICP Food Inflation by Category and Country

> Teuerung HICP Food Inflation by Category and Country is a paid API for AI agents from teuerung.halowerk.com, paid per call via x402, $0.002/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-21).

Returns monthly Eurostat HICP food inflation data for a specified COICOP category and EU/EFTA/candidate country over a configurable number of months.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://teuerung.halowerk.com/v1/food-inflation?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.002/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-21
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/teuerung-hicp-food-inflation-by-category-and-country-89e60e9f
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ZxvI5xnjUEyjvsY3_V-2P

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 teuerung-hicp-food-inflation-by-category-and-country-89e60e9f -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Pull the Eurostat HICP food inflation data for Germany (DE), category CP01 (food and non-alcoholic beverages), over the last 24 months so I can see how food prices have moved.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need official, commercially reusable Eurostat HICP food inflation data for a specific food category and a single EU/EFTA/candidate country over a configurable monthly window. It is ideal for time-series analysis of a single category-country pair rather than cross-country comparison or dashboard summaries. Prefer it over general economic data APIs when COICOP-level granularity and Eurostat provenance are required.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or unsupported geo code returns an error (country not in Eurostat dataset)
- Unsupported COICOP category code or keyword returns no data
- Months value outside 3–60 range is rejected by schema validation
- Eurostat data not yet published for the requested period returns empty observations
- Network or upstream Eurostat availability issues cause timeouts

## How this service works

Food HICP inflation for one category and reporting country. Example: category CP01, geo DE. Reference periods and source coverage remain visible. Commercially reusable EU, EFTA and candidate-country observations only where Eurostat publishes data.

## Output

Returns a time series of monthly HICP food inflation observations for the requested category and country, including index values or rate changes, reference periods, and source coverage notes. Data is commercially reusable and sourced from Eurostat for EU, EFTA, and official candidate countries.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "geo": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "DE",
   "maxLength": 9,
   "minLength": 2,
   "description": "Reporting country with published data: EU, EFTA or official candidate; for example DE or AT."
  },
  "months": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 24,
   "maximum": 60,
   "minimum": 3
  },
  "category": {
   "type": "string",
   "maxLength": 60,
   "minLength": 2,
   "description": "COICOP 2018 code (CP01, CP011, CP0111, CP011131) or English keyword (bread, milk, vegetables, coffee)."
  }
 }
}
```

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