# Foreign Agricultural Service

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/foreign-agricultural-service/  
**Website:** https://www.fas.usda.gov/  
**APIs profiled:** 4

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.

## Kin Score — 24.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 24.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 55.6 |
| Contract Quality | 49.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 7.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 11.9 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 22.2 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 34.7 (agent-ready)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | na |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | na |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | na |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (4)

- **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

## Agentic access (1)

- **Foreign Agricultural Service Agentic Access** — 35 operations

## Security (2)

- **Foreign Agricultural Service Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Foreign Agricultural Service Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Foreign Agricultural Service Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Agriculture, Federal-Government

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/foreign-agricultural-service/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.