TradeGuard — Pipeworx Verticals

Included Packs

🌐

UN Comtrade

Bilateral trade flows by HS code for 200+ countries. Top partners, top commodities

🚢

Census Trade

US imports and exports by HS code, country, and month. Trade balance tracking

🏦

Treasury Fiscal

Customs duty revenue, government receipts, exchange rates, national debt

📈

FRED

Trade balance time series, CPI, import price indices, macro indicators

👷

BLS

Import/export price indices, employment data. No key needed

💱

Exchange

Real-time currency exchange rates

Setup

1

Sign up for Pipeworx

Create a free account at /signup and grab your API key from /account.

2

Connect to Claude

Choose one of these options:

Option A — Persistent MCP config

Add this to your claude_desktop_config.json:

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx-trade": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "mcp-remote",
        "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=trade",
        "--header",
        "Authorization:Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Option B — Session only

Paste this into Claude to use for one conversation:

prompt

Use this MCP server for this conversation:

npx -y mcp-remote "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/mcp?vertical=trade" --header "Authorization:Bearer YOUR_API_KEY"

Then show me the US trade balance with China for the last 5 years and current tariff revenue collections.

3

No API keys needed

All 6 data sources use free public APIs. Just sign up and connect — no external keys required.

All 22 Tools

UN Comtrade 4 tools

comtrade_trade_data Bilateral trade data between two countries by HS code

comtrade_top_partners Top trading partners for a country by trade value

comtrade_top_commodities Top traded commodities between two countries

comtrade_country_codes Reference list of ISO numeric country codes

Census Trade 4 tools

census_imports US imports by HS code, country, and month

census_exports US exports by HS code, country, and month

census_trade_balance US trade balance with a specific country

census_trade_trends Trade trend data over time

Treasury Fiscal 4 tools

treasury_customs_revenue Customs duty revenue collections

treasury_receipts Government receipts by category

treasury_debt National debt outstanding

treasury_exchange_rates Treasury reporting exchange rates

FRED 5 tools

fred_get_series Fetch time series observations

fred_search Search for economic data series

fred_series_info Metadata for a specific series

fred_category Browse data by category

fred_releases Economic data release schedule

BLS 4 tools

bls_get_series Get time series data for BLS series

bls_search Search for series by keyword

bls_latest Most recent data point for a series

bls_popular_series List popular series with descriptions

Exchange 1 tool

get_exchange_rate Foreign exchange rates