# thebotwire.com Distribution & Global Trade News Feed

> thebotwire.com Distribution & Global Trade News Feed is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches the latest wholesale distribution, global trade, distributor M&A, tariff, and channel economics news from curated industry sources

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/distribution/latest
- 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/thebotwire-com-distribution-global-trade-news-feed-373cda46
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rZwZRLPvh-27yG9zTYu0z

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 thebotwire-com-distribution-global-trade-news-feed-373cda46
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest wholesale distribution and global trade news from thebotwire — give me up to 20 articles from the last 24 hours, filtered to MDM, covering any distributor M&A deals or tariff updates.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need specialized B2B distribution industry intelligence — wholesale channel news, tariff updates, distributor M&A, and channel economics — as opposed to general business or logistics news. Prefer this over generic news APIs when the user's context is industrial distribution, manufacturer channel strategy, or trade compliance. The curated sources (MDM, Global Trade Magazine) provide trade-vertical depth that general news aggregators lack.

## Known failure modes

- No results for overly narrow query or freshness window — returns empty array
- Invalid 'src' enum value causes 400 validation error
- 'since' parameter with unrecognized format (e.g. '1week' instead of '7d') causes parsing failure
- Upstream source unavailable — may return partial results or 503
- Limit out of range (above 50 or below 1) causes 400 error

## How this service works

Wholesale distribution and global trade , distributor M&A, tariffs, channel economics. Industrial distributors, manufacturers' channel teams, and trade-compliance agents

## Output

A list of news articles (up to 50) from curated wholesale distribution and global trade sources (MDM and/or Global Trade Magazine), each containing headline, source, publication date, summary or body text, and a URL — ordered by recency and optionally filtered by source or search terms.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-com-distribution-global-trade-news-feed-373cda46/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)