Trade news API
Imports, exports, tariffs and trade agreements. Pass topic=WB_698_TRADE to filter.
What does the trade topic actually cover?
Bilateral and multilateral agreements, tariff changes, customs policy and trade flows. Coverage clusters heavily around negotiation rounds and announcement dates rather than being continuous.
How do I filter news to trade?
Pass topic=WB_698_TRADE on /search or /stories. 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=20What catches people out with trade coverage?
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.
In the sample, 595 outlets carry trade coverage at about 2
articles each. The busiest is themarketsdaily.com at roughly 5%,
and themarketsdaily.com, dailypolitical.com, tickerreport.com account for about 12% between them.
Flat enough that volume here translates fairly directly into independent reporting rather than one newsroom publishing repeatedly.
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. Customs, standards and non-tariff measures are the part that changes what actually crosses a border, and they are reported in logistics and compliance trade press rather than in the coverage of negotiations. A rule change on documentation or certification can matter more to a shipper than a tariff schedule, and it arrives with no announcement and no general coverage whatsoever.
Which signals pair with trade?
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.
trade— Imports, exports, tariffseconomy— General economic activityfinancial_negative— Pessimistic financial framing
GET /search?topic=WB_698_TRADE&signal=trade&signal_min=0.25Recent coverage
From the index on 2026-07-31, in the language each was published in.
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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.