get_mirror_estimate
Estimate of one country's trade for a product from the records of the reporting countries that trade with it: for a target such as CN (China), flow "import" sums the reporters' exports to the target (what the target bought from them) and flow "export" sums the reporters' imports from the target, over the same 12 months ending at the latest month every reporter used has published, in US dollars. Use it for a country whose own customs statistics are not available here. Returns the estimate, each reporter's value and share, the previous 12 months and year-over-year change, which reporters were used or had no figure (never counted as 0) and notes. It is an estimate, not a published figure: it covers only the reporting countries listed (the rest of the target's trade is not in it), exports are FOB and imports CIF, goods routed through trading hubs such as Hong Kong are recorded under the hub, and precious metals (HS 71) can differ enormously between the two sides. Available at HS6, HS4 and HS2 only. For the two records of trade between two reporting countries use get_mirror_trade instead.
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": {
"target": "<target>",
"code": "<code>",
"flow": "<flow>"
},
"name": "get_mirror_estimate"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| code | Yes | HS product code with 2, 4 or 6 digits (e.g. "85", "8708" or "850760"; dots are ignored). National codes are rejected. | |
| flow | Yes | Required. The target's direction: "import" (the target's imports, estimated from the reporters' exports to it) or "export" (the target's exports, estimated from the reporters' imports from it). | |
| target | Yes | Required. ISO 3166 alpha-2 code of the country whose trade is estimated (e.g. "CN", "VN", "IN"). It may itself be a reporter; it is then left out of its own reporters. | |
| reporters | No | Optional. Reporting countries to use, one or more of "JP", "US", "GB" or "EU" (a comma-separated list in a query string). Default: every available reporter except the target. |