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ONS Trade Data API MCP Server

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ONS Trade Data API — MCP Server

An MCP (Model Context Protocol) server that exposes UK trade data from:

Modeled on your previous ons-baby-names-api-mcp server: Python + FastMCP, deployable to Vercel, with a streamable HTTP MCP endpoint at /mcp.

Tools

Tool

Description

health

Check MCP server and upstream API connectivity

get_schema

Dataset metadata (version, last_updated, total_records)

get_time_periods

List available dates

get_countries

Country code lookup

get_commodities

Commodity metadata lookup

get_country_index

Available commodities and periods for a country

fetch_raw

Direct raw JSON fetch from /data/... path

get_trade_file

Fetch one static trade file with optional filtering

query_trade

Generic grouped aggregation query over a trade file

Related MCP server: mcp-comtrade

MCP endpoint

After deployment, connect an MCP client to:

https://ons-trade-data-api-mcp.vercel.app/mcp

Environment variable

Variable

Default

Description

TRADE_API_BASE_URL

https://ons-trade-data-api.netlify.app

Upstream trade API base URL

Deploy to Vercel

  1. Push this repo to GitHub

  2. Import it in Vercel

  3. Deploy (no custom build needed)

Local development

python -m venv .venv
source .venv/bin/activate
pip install -r requirements.txt
python app.py

Server runs locally at:

http://localhost:8000/mcp

This server cannot be deployed

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