International Trade Administration API Rules

aid: international-trade-administration:international-trade-administration-rules
name: International Trade Administration API Rules
description: >-
  Operational and governance rules for consuming the International Trade
  Administration Data Services Platform APIs. These rules describe
  authentication, rate limiting, terms of service, and acceptable use
  expectations defined by ITA.
url: >-
  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/international-trade-administration/refs/heads/main/openapi/international-trade-administration-rules.yml
modified: '2026-04-28'
specificationVersion: '0.19'
rules:
  - name: Subscription Key Required
    description: >-
      All requests must include a valid Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key header
      issued through the developer.trade.gov portal.
    type: Authentication
    enforcement: Required
  - name: Terms of Service Acceptance
    description: >-
      Consumers must accept the ITA Data Services Terms of Service prior
      to using the APIs in production.
    type: Legal
    enforcement: Required
    url: https://developer.trade.gov/terms-of-service
  - name: Service Level Agreement
    description: >-
      ITA targets best-effort availability for its data services and
      publishes incident notices through the developer portal.
    type: SLA
    enforcement: Advisory
    url: https://developer.trade.gov/service-level-agreement
  - name: Attribution
    description: >-
      Applications consuming ITA data should attribute the International
      Trade Administration as the source.
    type: Attribution
    enforcement: Recommended
  - name: Acceptable Use
    description: >-
      ITA APIs are made available for lawful trade-promotion and
      compliance purposes. Bulk scraping, redistribution as a competing
      service, or use that violates U.S. export law is prohibited.
    type: Acceptable Use
    enforcement: Required
  - name: Rate Limiting
    description: >-
      Default subscription tiers throttle requests; high-volume consumers
      should request elevated quotas through DataServices@trade.gov.
    type: Rate Limiting
    enforcement: Required
  - name: Data Freshness
    description: >-
      Source list update cadences vary by dataset; the screening list
      sources endpoint exposes per-source last-imported and last-updated
      timestamps.
    type: Data Quality
    enforcement: Advisory
contact:
  - FN: ITA Data Services
    email: DataServices@trade.gov
    url: https://developer.trade.gov