Foreign Agricultural Service

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is a branch of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that works to promote U.S. agricultural exports and expand global markets for American agricultural products.

Foreign Agricultural Service publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: ESR API, GATS API, and PSD API. Tagged areas include Agriculture and Federal Government.

Foreign Agricultural Service’s developer surface includes authentication and 4 more developer resources.

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32.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

4 APIs

AgricultureFederal Government

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scored 2026-07-28 · rubric v0.6

Composite quality — 32.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 12.5 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20

Commercial Clarity 7.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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APIs 4

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

USDA FAS Open Data API

The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Open Data API provides programmatic access to U.S. agricultural trade data, including the Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS), Export S...

Foreign Agricultural Service ESR API

U.S. Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data

Foreign Agricultural Service GATS API

Global Agricultural Trade System

Foreign Agricultural Service PSD API

Production, Supply and Distribution

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

USDA FAS Open Data Services

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Foreign Agricultural Service Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Foreign Agricultural Service Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: foreign-agricultural-service
name: Foreign Agricultural Service
description: The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is a branch of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) that
  works to promote U.S. agricultural exports and expand global markets for American agricultural products.
type: Index
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/foreign-agricultural-service.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-12-25'
modified: '2026-04-28'
position: Consumer
tags:
- Agriculture
- Federal Government
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/foreign-agricultural-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.19'
apis:
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:fas-open-data
  name: USDA FAS Open Data API
  tags:
  - Agriculture
  - Trade
  - Federal Government
  - Open Data
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  properties:
  - url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
    type: Documentation
  description: The USDA Foreign Agricultural Service Open Data API provides programmatic access to U.S. agricultural trade
    data, including the Global Agricultural Trade System (GATS), Export Sales Reporting (ESR), and Production, Supply and
    Distribution (PSD) Online datasets.
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:foreign-agricultural-service-esr-api
  name: Foreign Agricultural Service ESR API
  description: U.S. Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  tags:
  - ESR
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/foreign-agricultural-service-esr-api-openapi.yml
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:foreign-agricultural-service-gats-api
  name: Foreign Agricultural Service GATS API
  description: Global Agricultural Trade System
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  tags:
  - GATS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/foreign-agricultural-service-gats-api-openapi.yml
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:foreign-agricultural-service-psd-api
  name: Foreign Agricultural Service PSD API
  description: Production, Supply and Distribution
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  tags:
  - PSD
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/foreign-agricultural-service-psd-api-openapi.yml
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/foreign-agricultural-service-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/foreign-agricultural-service-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/foreign-agricultural-service-authentication.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usda-foreign-agricultural-service
- type: Website
  url: https://www.fas.usda.gov/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com