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Foreign Agricultural Service

The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is the trade and export agency of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), working to promote U.S. agricultural exports and expand global markets for American agricultural products. FAS runs the Open Data Services at apps.fas.usda.gov, a free, key-gated HTTPS/JSON API publishing three datasets on U.S. and world agricultural trade: ESR (Export Sales Reporting — weekly U.S. export sales by commodity, destination and market year), GATS (the Global Agricultural Trade System — U.S. Census and UN ComTrade import, export and re-export flows, including trade by U.S. customs district), and PSD (Production, Supply and Distribution — world commodity production, supply and use forecasts). The surface is 35 read-only GET operations behind a single API_KEY header, described by a live Swagger 2.0 contract and rendered in Swagger UI.

Foreign Agricultural Service publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: ESR Data API - United States Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data API, GATS Data API - US Census and UN ComTrade Import Export & Re-Export Data API, and PSD Data API - Production, Supply and Distribution Forecast Data of World Agricultural Commodities API. Tagged areas include Agriculture, Federal Government, Trade, Open Data, and Commodities.

Foreign Agricultural Service’s developer surface includes authentication, API reference, signup flow, support, and 22 more developer resources.

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40.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try
2 APIs
AgricultureFederal GovernmentTradeOpen DataCommoditiesExportGovernment

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0
Composite quality — 40.2/100 · developing
Contract Quality 8.7 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 17
Access Clarity 8.9 / 17
Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11
Contract Governance 0.5 / 10
Discoverability 5.6 / 9
Regulatory Posture 4.0 / 15
Agent readiness — 27/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 6 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Government & Public Sector regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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APIs 3

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

Foreign Agricultural Service ESR Data API - United States Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data API

The ESR Data API - United States Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data API from Foreign Agricultural Service — 7 operation(s) for esr data api - united states weekl...

Foreign Agricultural Service GATS Data API - US Census and UN ComTrade Import Export & Re-Export Data API

The GATS Data API - US Census and UN ComTrade Import Export & Re-Export Data API from Foreign Agricultural Service — 19 operation(s) for gats data api - us census and un comtrad...

Foreign Agricultural Service PSD Data API - Production, Supply and Distribution Forecast Data of World Agricultural Commodities API

The PSD Data API - Production, Supply and Distribution Forecast Data of World Agricultural Commodities API from Foreign Agricultural Service — 9 operation(s) for psd data api - ...

Open Collections 5

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA FAS Open Data Services ESR API

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA FAS Open Data Services ESR GATS API

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA FAS Open Data Services ESR PSD API

OPEN COLLECTION

USDA FAS Open Data Services

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Foreign Agricultural Service Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Foreign Agricultural Service Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Foreign Agricultural Service Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Foreign Agricultural Service Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Foreign Agricultural Service Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Foreign Agricultural Service Vulnerability Disclosure

Bugcrowd

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Foreign Agricultural Service Agentic Access

35 operations

35 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance
Conformance
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits
 Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans
Plans
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Website
Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay
 Overlay
Overlay
 Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: foreign-agricultural-service
name: Foreign Agricultural Service
description: 'The Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) is the trade and export agency of the United States Department of Agriculture
  (USDA), working to promote U.S. agricultural exports and expand global markets for American agricultural products. FAS runs
  the Open Data Services at apps.fas.usda.gov, a free, key-gated HTTPS/JSON API publishing three datasets on U.S. and world
  agricultural trade: ESR (Export Sales Reporting — weekly U.S. export sales by commodity, destination and market year), GATS
  (the Global Agricultural Trade System — U.S. Census and UN ComTrade import, export and re-export flows, including trade
  by U.S. customs district), and PSD (Production, Supply and Distribution — world commodity production, supply and use forecasts).
  The surface is 35 read-only GET operations behind a single API_KEY header, described by a live Swagger 2.0 contract and
  rendered in Swagger UI.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  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: '2026-09-10'
position: Consuming
tags:
- Agriculture
- Federal Government
- Trade
- Open Data
- Commodities
- Export
- Government
tags_raw:
- Agriculture
- Federal Government
- Trade
- Open Data
- Commodities
- Exports
- Government
- Federal-Government
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/foreign-agricultural-service/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:foreign-agricultural-service-esr-data-api-united-states-weekly-export-sales-of-agricultural-commodity-data-api
  name: Foreign Agricultural Service ESR Data API - United States Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data API
  description: The ESR Data API - United States Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data API from Foreign Agricultural
    Service — 7 operation(s) for esr data api - united states weekly export sales of agricultural commodity data.
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  baseURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/OpenData
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - ESR Data API - United States Weekly Export Sales of Agricultural Commodity Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/foreign-agricultural-service-esr-data-api-united-states-weekly-export-sales-of-agricultural-commodity-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendata/swagger/ui/index
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:foreign-agricultural-service-gats-data-api-us-census-and-un-comtrade-import-export-re-export-data-api
  name: Foreign Agricultural Service GATS Data API - US Census and UN ComTrade Import Export & Re-Export Data API
  description: The GATS Data API - US Census and UN ComTrade Import Export & Re-Export Data API from Foreign Agricultural
    Service — 19 operation(s) for gats data api - us census and un comtrade import export & re-export data.
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  baseURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/OpenData
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - GATS Data API - US Census and UN ComTrade Import Export & Re-Export Data
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/foreign-agricultural-service-gats-data-api-us-census-and-un-comtrade-import-export-re-export-data-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendata/swagger/ui/index
- aid: foreign-agricultural-service:foreign-agricultural-service-psd-data-api-production-supply-and-distribution-forecast-data-of-world-agricultural-commodities-api
  name: Foreign Agricultural Service PSD Data API - Production, Supply and Distribution Forecast Data of World Agricultural
    Commodities API
  description: The PSD Data API - Production, Supply and Distribution Forecast Data of World Agricultural Commodities API
    from Foreign Agricultural Service — 9 operation(s) for psd data api - production, supply and distribution forecast data
    of world agricultural commodities.
  humanURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  baseURL: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/OpenData
  tags:
  - PSD Data API - Production, Supply and Distribution Forecast Data of World Agricultural Commodities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/foreign-agricultural-service-psd-data-api-production-supply-and-distribution-forecast-data-of-world-agricultural-commodities-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendata/swagger/ui/index
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/foreign-agricultural-service-esr-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/foreign-agricultural-service-gats-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/foreign-agricultural-service-psd-api-overlay.yaml
- 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/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/foreign-agricultural-service-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/foreign-agricultural-service-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/foreign-agricultural-service-mcp.yml
  note: NOT MCPServer. The manifest self-describes as status:candidate — a tool shape derived from the provider's own contract,
    not a server USDA FAS runs. FAS operates no MCP endpoint and ships no stdio package.
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/foreign-agricultural-service-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/foreign-agricultural-service-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/foreign-agricultural-service-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/foreign-agricultural-service-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/foreign-agricultural-service-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/foreign-agricultural-service-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/foreign-agricultural-service-rate-limits.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/foreign-agricultural-service-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.usda.gov/vulnerability-disclosure-policy
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendataweb/home
- type: APIReference
  url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendata/swagger/ui/index
- type: SignUp
  url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendatawebv2/#/signup
- type: Support
  url: https://apps.fas.usda.gov/opendatawebv2/#/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.usda.gov/privacy-policy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-10'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v3

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