get_item_summary
One-call overview of a product (HS2/4/6 or national code) of one reporter for the usual questions: a one-line summary (ai_context_summary, in US dollars), latest month, the last 12 months against the previous 12 and 3 years earlier, top 20 partners plus "other", the fastest growing and declining partners, calendar-year totals, partner concentration, new markets, the seasonal peak and trough months (or seasonality_unavailable_reason) and an anomaly signal, with notes on gaps and non-comparable periods. Precomputed monthly; use it right after search_items (or first, when you know the code) instead of several separate calls (e.g. semiconductor manufacturing machines 848620 for export, pharmaceuticals chapter 30 for import). get_item_summary is about one product; get_catalog is about the whole service (coverage, latest month, your limits), so call get_catalog for those and this tool for a product. For other months, a single partner country or details use get_series, get_partners, get_ranking, get_new_markets, get_seasonality. value_basis says on which basis the reporter's own values are (for example the US import value is the customs value without freight and insurance); compare_countries restates imports on a CIF basis, so its totals can differ by about 1-2% from this answer. Customs trade statistics of several reporting countries (Japan JP, United States US, United Kingdom GB, European Union (27 member states) EU) from their official customs data, monthly, by HS product code and partner country. value fields are in the reporter's currency (currency: JPY, USD, GBP or EUR) and _usd fields in US dollars; ratios and shares are fractions precomputed from the full dataset; every answer carries reporter, currency, data_through (latest published month), the reporter's attribution, and notes. Maximum 200 rows per answer. Numbers in answers are rounded once, at the end: amounts (value, _usd, v12 ...) to 2 decimals, quantity and kg to 3, unit prices (unit_price) to 4 significant digits below 100 and 2 decimals from 100 up (never rounded to 0), and ratios, shares and growth rates (yoy, mom*, share*, hhi*, chg3y) to 6; whole numbers and null are left as they are. A null quantity, kg or unit price comes with a *_unavailable_reason (mixed_units, weight_only, no_quantity_in_source, no_weight_in_source, source_gap, withheld; get_catalog lists them in null_reasons), and a missing seasonality with seasonality_unavailable_reason. The national level (JP 9-digit, US 10-digit, GB 8-digit codes) differs between reporters and between import and export; EU has no national level (HS6 only); HS6, HS4 and HS2 are shared. Import and export are separate datasets, so reporter and flow are always required for product figures. Rankings (limit) are limited to the top 20 without an API key (more is refused with out_of_scope) and to 100 with a free API key. Start with get_catalog (coverage, your access limits, which tool to use) or, when you already know the code, get_item_summary for a one-call overview of a product.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"reporter": "<reporter>",
"flow": "<flow>",
"code": "<code>"
},
"name": "get_item_summary"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | Yes | HS product code with 2, 4 or 6 digits, or the reporter's national code (JP 9 digits, US 10, GB 8; a reporter without a national level, such as EU, has HS6 as its finest level); dots are ignored (e.g. "85", "8507", "850760" or "8507.60"). National codes differ between reporters and between import and export; find codes with search_items. On a build that serves HS6 and above a national code without a series answers fine_digits_not_served: retry with its 6-digit parent. | |
| flow | Yes | Required. "import" (goods entering the reporting country) or "export" (goods leaving it); there is no combined view: "both" does not exist. For a comparison across countries use compare_countries, for exports minus imports use get_balance. | |
| reporter | Yes | Required. The reporting country whose customs statistics are read: "JP" (Japan), "US" (United States), "GB" (United Kingdom) or "EU" (European Union (27 member states)). Partners are the other countries. |