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Trade news API

Imports, exports, tariffs and trade agreements. Pass topic=WB_698_TRADE to filter.

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What this covers

Bilateral and multilateral agreements, tariff changes, customs policy and trade flows. Coverage clusters heavily around negotiation rounds and announcement dates rather than being continuous.

Querying it

Almost always worth pairing with two country filters rather than one — trade stories involve at least two markets, and each side reports it differently. The reporting from the smaller economy is usually more detailed because it matters more there.

GET /stories?topic=WB_698_TRADE&mode=hybrid&from=2026-07-24&limit=20

What catches people out

Querying from one side only. A tariff decision reported as a minor adjustment in the larger market is frequently front-page coverage in the smaller one, with far more specifics. Running the same query against both markets is the whole technique.

Who publishes on it

Trade ministries and multilateral bodies generate the announcements; specialist trade press and the business sections of national papers carry the analysis. Smaller economies report agreements in far more depth than larger counterparties, which is where the useful specifics live.

What it is best for

Best for tracking negotiations, tariff changes and their reception in each affected market. Weakest for measuring actual trade flows, which appear in statistical releases rather than in news and reach coverage only when they surprise someone.

Monitoring it over time

Negotiations generate long quiet stretches punctuated by intense rounds, so continuous monitoring wastes most of its requests. Poll around scheduled rounds and deadlines instead, and keep a standing query on the smaller counterparty, which reports substantive detail continuously while the larger one covers only the milestones.

Signals that pair with it

Topic filtering answers what an article is about. Signals answer how strongly it reads that way and in what register, so combining them is usually sharper than either alone.

GET /search?topic=WB_698_TRADE&signal=signal_trade&signal_min=0.25

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Recent coverage

From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.

Who covers it

themarketsdaily.com · dailypolitical.com · tickerreport.com · haberler.com · finanznachrichten.de · finanzen.net · sina.com.cn · boerse-social.com · yahoo.com · finanzen.ch · baidu.com · udaipurkiran.com

Counts are provisional pending a snapshot against the API.