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Monthly iron ore reference price in USD per dry metric ton (World Bank series PIORECRUSDM, via FRED). Not the Platts 62% Fe CFR Qingdao spot benchmark; the route name is kept for the owner. Latest value plus up to 24 months of history.

Monthly world reference prices for copper, aluminium and zinc from FRED (World Bank series, USD). These are not LME cash-settlement prices; the name is kept for the route. Latest value plus up to 24 months of history.

Daily Henry Hub natural gas spot price in USD per MMBtu, from FRED (EIA series). Latest value plus up to 60 trading days of history. Pipeline storage and LNG netback are not included in this source.

Monthly nickel reference price in USD per metric ton (World Bank series PNICKUSDM, via FRED). Not the LME Class 1 cash settlement or LME warehouse stocks; the route name is kept for the owner. Latest value plus up to 24 months of history.

NOAA Climate Prediction Center Oceanic Nino Index (ONI): 3-month running anomaly of sea surface temperature in the Nino 3.4 region, by season, plus a label (El Nino at +0.5 or higher, La Nina at -0.5 or lower, otherwise neutral). Official NOAA CPC threshold; the file is updated monthly.

Live spot price of gold (XAU) or silver (XAG) in USD per troy ounce from gold-api.com (aggregated free spot feed, no key). This is a spot quote with a timestamp, not the LBMA London AM/PM fixing and not vault holdings; the route name is kept for the owner.

US producer price index for wood pulp (BLS series WPU0911, via FRED), monthly index value. This is a price index, not the RISI Northern Bleached Softwood Kraft (NBSK) benchmark; the route name is kept for the owner. Latest value plus up to 24 months of history.

NLR (formerly NREL) PVWatts v8 estimate for a grid-connected PV system at a latitude and longitude: annual AC energy (kWh), capacity factor, annual solar radiation, and monthly AC energy. Uses the NSRDB typical-year weather file; this is an estimate, not a yield guarantee.

Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) CO2 allowance auctions: auction number and date, quantity offered, Cost Containment Reserve sold, quantity sold, clearing price (USD per allowance) and total proceeds, latest first, from RGGI's public auction results table. Quarterly auctions only; secondary-market prices are not included.

IMF Special Drawing Rights (SDR) valuation for the latest IMF business day: the five basket currencies (US dollar, euro, Chinese yuan, Japanese yen, UK pound) with the currency amount under Rule O-1, market exchange rate, US-dollar equivalent and % change; plus the SDR value in US dollars (SDR1 = US$) and the US dollar in SDR (US$1 = SDR).

SEC EDGAR full-text search: 10-K annual reports (or another form) whose text contains a phrase such as 'climate risk' or 'scope 1 emissions'. Returns the total hit count and the latest matching filings (company, CIK, form, file date). Shows which companies mention the phrase; it does not extract emission numbers.

US producer price index for steel mill products (BLS series WPU1017, via FRED), monthly index value. This is a price index, not hot-rolled coil or rebar futures or spot benchmarks; the route name is kept for the owner.

US producer price index for lumber and wood products (BLS series WPU081, via FRED), monthly index value. This is a price index, not CME Random Length framing lumber futures or spot quotes; the route name is kept for the owner.

Monthly uranium reference price in USD per pound U3O8 (World Bank series PURANUSDM, via FRED). Not the UxC or TradeTech spot or long-term quotes; the route name is kept for the owner. Latest value plus up to 24 months of history.

US electric grid monitor from EIA's Hourly Electric Grid Monitor (Form EIA-930, official Open Data API): hourly demand, day-ahead demand forecast, net generation and net interchange for a balancing authority or region (CISO, ERCO, PJM, MISO, NYIS, ISNE, SWPP, US48…), plus the generation mix by fuel (gas, coal, nuclear, wind, solar, hydro…) for the latest reported hour. Times are UTC; values in MWh

USDA WASDE (World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates) figures for one commodity and region from the official monthly report-data CSV: attribute (e.g. Production, Ending Stocks), market year, value and unit. Defaults to the latest month available; the CSV is about 1 MB, so each call downloads one month.

Verified Carbon Standard (VCS) projects from Verra's public registry, by name, country, status, proponent or methodology: VCS ID, name, status, location and coordinates, sectoral scope, methodology, proponents, validation/verification body, estimated annual reductions (tCO2e), size class, project and crediting dates, registration date, description and registry link, plus total count.

WRI Aqueduct 4.0 country water-risk indicators (default weighting): baseline water stress, baseline water depletion, interannual and seasonal variability and drought risk where published, each with score (0-5), category label and country rank, from the Aqueduct 4.0 country baseline on Resource Watch. Sub-national (basin) values are not included.

World Bank funded projects by country from the World Bank Projects API: project name, status, total amount (USD), approval year and project page. Project list only; contract-award notices are not in this source.

Applied import tariffs from the World Bank WITS / UNCTAD TRAINS database for one importing country and one HS 6-digit product: yearly simple-average rate (%), tariff type (MFN or preferential), min and max line rates and number of tariff lines, from WITS's public SDMX API. Partner defaults to the world (MFN). Non-tariff measures are not included.

Air cargo unit load device (ULD) specs: LD and pallet types with their IATA codes (AKE, AKH, PMC base P6P, etc.), internal volume (m³ and ft³), height, depth and base/overall width (mm and inches), nominal width, contour and the aircraft they fit, from the ULD table on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Search by LD name or IATA prefix. Tare weights and maximum gross loads vary by manufacturer and are not

Air waybill (AWB) check and carrier lookup: validates the 11-digit AWB (3-digit airline prefix + 8-digit serial with the IATA mod-7 check digit), names the issuing airline and its IATA code from the public track-trace.com carrier list, and returns the airline cargo site and a tracking link. It does not read the shipment status itself (airlines publish it only on their own sites).

Airport record by IATA (3-letter) or ICAO (4-letter) code from OurAirports open data: name, type, coordinates, elevation, country, municipality, scheduled-service flag. No runway or frequency data.

ATA Carnet country check from the International Chamber of Commerce: whether a country runs the ATA Carnet system (duty-free temporary admission for samples, professional equipment and exhibition goods) and its national issuing and guaranteeing association with phone and website, as listed on ICC's 'ATA Carnet in your country' page. Individual carnet numbers cannot be verified publicly; the associ

US Customs ACE system status from CBP's Cargo Systems Messaging Service (CSMS): latest messages for ACE/ABI with number, date, title, link and a type (outage, delay, resolved, maintenance window, quota bulletin, HTS update, information), plus whether an unresolved outage or delay appears in the latest messages. Data is CBP's public CSMS feed; CBP does not publish a live uptime meter.

China's applied import tariff for a 6-digit HS code from the World Bank WITS tariff database (UNCTAD TRAINS, as reported by China): MFN simple average, minimum and maximum duty rate across the national tariff lines, number of lines and the year. HS-6 level, not the 8/10-digit China customs line; VAT, consumption tax and retaliatory surcharges are not included. Another reporting country can be chos

Freight CO2e emissions for a shipment: tonnes × distance (km) × the UK Government (DESNZ) 2025 greenhouse-gas conversion factor for the chosen mode — van, HGV, refrigerated HGV, air freight (with or without radiative forcing), rail, tankers or cargo ships by vessel type and size. Returns kg CO2e per matching factor. Uses DESNZ factors (aligned with the GHG Protocol), not the GLEC tool itself.

Shipping container number check: validates an ISO 6346 container number (owner code, category, serial, check digit, computed locally), names the owner of the prefix (e.g. MSKU = Maersk) with country and website from the public prefixlist.com register, and returns links to the owner's and track-trace.com's tracking pages. It does not read the container's live milestones (carriers publish them on th

EU VAT rates (standard and reduced) for one member state on a given date, from the open ibericode/vat-rates dataset on GitHub, a community compilation (not the official EU TEDB). Does not cover IOSS registration or de minimis rules.

Check a US customs broker against U.S. Customs and Border Protection's official Permitted Customs Broker Listing: filer code, broker name, city, state, work phone and e-mail where CBP lists them. Search by name, by 3-character filer code, or list a state. A broker missing from the list holds no national permit on CBP's page; individual licence numbers are not published there.

United States import duty lookup from the USITC Harmonized Tariff Schedule: HTS codes matching a code prefix or keyword with general, special and column-2 rates, units, and the duty amount for a customs value in USD when the general rate is ad valorem. US tariff only; no VAT, no other countries.

Daily vessel transits through the Bosporus Strait chokepoint, counted by ship type with capacity, from IMF PortWatch (ArcGIS, AIS-derived). Covers the Bosporus only, not the Dardanelles, and gives no waiting times.

Dark-fleet signals from Global Fishing Watch: AIS gap events (a vessel switching its transponder off, with off/on positions, gap hours and distance) or at-sea encounters between two vessels (possible ship-to-ship transfers, with both vessels, duration and median distance), filtered by flag and vessel type over the last 1 to 30 days, newest first. Coverage is GFW's (mostly fishing, carrier, bunker

Vessel displacement and deadweight estimate from hull dimensions: volume = length × beam × draught × block coefficient; displacement = volume × water density (sea 1.025, fresh 1.000 t/m³); deadweight = displacement − lightship weight (if given). Also returns the cargo capacity left after fuel, stores and ballast you enter. A design-stage estimate from standard formulas, not a vessel's official DWT

Container demurrage or detention calculator: from the start date (discharge or gate-out), end date (gate-out or empty return), free days and the carrier's tiered daily rates you supply (e.g. 1-4:75,5-8:150,9+:250), returns chargeable days, the day-by-day tier split and the total per container and for all containers. Counts calendar days, start day included unless you say otherwise. Carrier tariffs

Inland container depots and dry ports by country from the UN/LOCODE code list: locations flagged as multimodal (function 6) that are not seaports, with their rail and road functions, subdivision, status and coordinates. Optionally include multimodal seaports or filter by name. Data is the UN/LOCODE list as mirrored on DataHub (ODC-PDDL); it marks facilities, it does not report operators or capacit

US truck freight demand and capacity proxies from FRED (monthly): Cass Freight Index shipments and expenditures, the implied freight cost per shipment (expenditures / shipments), and ATA truck tonnage, each with month-over-month and year-over-year change. National, monthly data; it is not a lane-level tender rejection or load-board feed.

EU import measures (TARIC) for a goods code from a given origin country into an EU member state, from the European Commission's Access2Markets tariff service: third-country duty, tariff preferences, anti-dumping/countervailing duties with additional codes, suspensions, supplementary units, conditions and footnotes, with start/end dates and regulation IDs. Customs duties only (no VAT); check TARIC

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.

FIATA member freight forwarders by country from FIATA's public members directory: national associations and individual member companies with postal address, phone, e-mail, website and named managers. Filter by part of the company name. FIATA membership is not a government licence; it lists members of the international federation only.

Pending US Foreign-Trade Zone Board applications with open public comment periods, from the trade.gov FTZ Board page: docket number, zone and applicant, activity, location and comment closing date. This is a snapshot of open dockets only; it is not the full zone directory or subzone privileges.

VLSFO bunker fuel prices (USD per metric ton) by port and regional average from the public Ship & Bunker prices page: price, change, daily high, low and spread. Indicative public assessments, not a firm offer; ex-wharf prices exclude freight and taxes. Only the VLSFO grade is extracted.

Current piracy and armed-robbery broadcasts from the ICC International Maritime Bureau (IMB) Piracy Reporting Centre: broadcast time (UTC), IMB identifier, category (attack, attempted attack, suspicious activity, warning...), location (e.g. Gulf of Aden, Singapore Straits) and the full narration, plus the cancel time when the message states one. Filter by location or category words.

Daily vessel transits through the Panama Canal chokepoint, counted by ship type (container, dry bulk, general cargo, Ro-Ro, tanker) with capacity, from IMF PortWatch (ArcGIS, AIS-derived). Covers transit counts only, not booking slots or draft restrictions; the latest date lags real time by several days.

Whether an import into an EU member state falls under EU plant health control (phytosanitary certificate under Reg. (EU) 2016/2031 and 2019/2072 Annex XI/XII) and which other sanitary/phytosanitary and technical requirements apply, for a 10-digit CN/TARIC code and origin country, from the European Commission's Access2Markets service, with the national plant health authority and laws. EU imports on

Weekly port congestion figures for one port from Portcast's public port page: median waiting time (days), average vessels waiting per day, congestion category and week-on-week change. Free public page data (not the paid API), and only for ports Portcast publishes; the slug is the port name in lowercase, e.g. ako or long-beach.

International postal tracking number check (UPU S10 format, e.g. RR123456785GB): validates the 8-digit serial with the S10 check digit, decodes the service type from the first letter (EMS, registered, parcel, insured...), names the origin postal country from the last two letters, and returns tracking links (origin post and multi-carrier trackers). It does not read the item's live scan history.

Port state control detentions published by the Tokyo MOU (Asia-Pacific) for a month: IMO number, ship name, flag, build date, tonnage, type, class society, recognised organisations, company, place and dates of detention and release, and every detainable deficiency (code, area, item, RO responsibility). Filter by flag (2-letter code), IMO number or port.

US Class I rail traffic: carloads or intermodal units per period from FRED (series RAILFRTCARLOADSD11 / RAILFRTINTERMODALD11, AAR data), latest values and recent history. National totals only: there is no corridor-by-corridor status in this source.

Current water level (W, cm) and discharge (Q, m3/s) for one German federal waterway gauge from PEGELONLINE (WSV), with the reading timestamp. Default station is KAUB (Middle Rhine, a key barge bottleneck). Barging capacity is not calculated; this is gauge data only.