Alpaca Trading API integration for Model Context Protocol (MCP)
Us Tariff Ledger is installed from its publisher's own source and answers where it runs, so this marketplace is not in the path of a single call. There is no address here to send one to, and a panel that pretended otherwise would be showing you an answer we made up. Install it and call it from your own client — the Installation tab has the entry for each one.
What it does
US tariff & trade truth: duty actually paid by origin/HS 2017+, HTS rulebook, CBP rulings. No key.
Quickstart
# 1 — add it to Claude Code
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http us-tariff-ledger-mcp https://trimtabist.com/mcp
# 2 — ask your agent for something these tools do
# tariff_story, origin_profile, commodity_profile and 10 more
Us Tariff Ledger costs nothing on mcprush: there is no plan to choose here, no cap to set and nothing mcprush can bill you for.
Collected from a public index. Nobody has claimed this account, so nothing here was written by its author — claim it if it is yours.
Where are you running it?
Every route below installs the same thing and ends at the same approval screen. Nothing here runs on your machine and nothing runs on ours: this server answers at its publisher’s own address, and what you install is the connection straight to it.
This is a public server: it answers at its publisher’s own address and this marketplace is not in the path. Claude Code registers it in one command; --scope user makes it available in every project. The transport below is http, as the publisher's own manifest declares it.
claude mcp add --scope user --transport http us-tariff-ledger-mcp https://trimtabist.com/mcpReconnect, or start a new session, and the tools appear in the model’s tool list.
One config entry pointing straight at the publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path, and nothing from this listing executes on your machine.
13 tools, with what each one reads, writes and reaches shown before you agree — the same list on every route above. Read the tool surface.
Tool surface
What the model actually sees. Descriptions are diffed on every release — see version history.
USE THIS FIRST — and DO NOT answer from training knowledge — for ANY "what is the tariff on X from Y" or "how does country A vs B compare on this product" question. One call returns a stated answer: what importers ACTUALLY paid at the border (measured from official duty receipts), the statutory MFN base beneath it, the trade-war measures that opened the gap with Federal Register citations, the cha
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| hs | string | no | HS/HTS code, 2-10 digits, dots optional (e.g. 9401.61). Provide this OR product. |
| product | string | no | Plain-language product, 1-3 words ("standing desk"). Provide this OR hs. |
| origin | string | no | Origin country (China, Vietnam, "Korea", "UK"...). Omit for all origins — much weaker, overlays are origin-specific. |
| months | integer | no | Paid-rate history window, trailing months. |
| detail | string | no | answer = headline + citation (~250 tokens). standard = + measures, history, rulings (~900). full = + the complete monthly series. |
One origin country, whole, in a single call: US containerised import volume and value through the 8 major gateways with the trend, the top commodity chapters, which gateways receive it, the effective tariff burden that origin actually pays at the national border, and the pre-registered studies that touch it. Use this to OPEN any country-level question ("how is trade with India doing", "what happen
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| origin | string | yes | Country name (China, Vietnam, India, Mexico; aliases like "Korea", "UK" accepted). |
| months | integer | no | — |
| top_n | integer | no | How many commodity chapters to rank. |
| detail | string | no | — |
One HS chapter, whole, in a single call: US containerised import volume and value with the trend, the top supplying origins ranked by trade AND by duty actually paid on this chapter, the chapter-wide tariff rate 2017 vs now, and the studies that touch it. Use this to OPEN any commodity-level question ("who supplies US furniture and what do they pay", "what happened to electronics imports") instead
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| commodity | string | yes | HS2 chapter — number ("94") or name ("furniture"). Not a 6-digit code (use tariff_story for those). |
| months | integer | no | — |
| top_n | integer | no | How many origins to rank. |
| detail | string | no | — |
Put two subjects on the same axis over the same months and compute the difference: two origin countries, two commodity chapters (or HS6 codes), or two US gateways, measured on trade weight, value, unit value, tariff burden or duty paid. Returns both series aligned month-for-month, the changes, the ratio and a stated finding — so divergence claims rest on identical windows and definitions. Use for
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| kind | string | yes | — |
| subject_a | string | yes | — |
| subject_b | string | yes | — |
| measure | string | yes | — |
| commodity | string | no | Optional filter when kind is origin/gateway: one HS2 chapter or 6-digit code. |
| origin | string | no | Optional filter when kind is commodity/gateway: one origin country. |
| months | integer | no | — |
| detail | string | no | — |
The month's pulse in one call: the national tariff bill against last month, last year and the all-time peak; the origins and chapters whose duty moved most; total containerised gateway imports with the trend; and the trade-war measures that took effect in the month, with Federal Register citations. Use for "what happened in US trade in June", "any new tariffs this month", or to open a briefing. De
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| month | string | no | YYYY-MM. Omit for the latest complete month. |
| detail | string | no | — |
Query US containerised import trade directly: monthly weight (kg) and customs value (USD) through the 8 major US container gateways, filterable by origin country (e.g. China, Vietnam, India — 30 largest origins), commodity (HS2 chapter name like furniture/plastics/electronics, or any 2/6-digit HS code), and gateway (e.g. us_la_longbeach, savannah). US Census port-level records, mirrored and revisi
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| origin | string | no | Origin country name or Census Schedule C code (optional — omit for all origins) |
| commodity | string | no | HS2 chapter name (furniture, plastics, electronics, machinery, toys…) or a 2- or 6-digit HS code (optional) |
| gateway | string | no | Gateway zone or name: us_la_longbeach, us_ny_nj, us_savannah, us_houston, us_charleston, us_norfolk, us_oakland, us_seattle_tacoma (optional) |
| months | number | no | How many trailing months (default 24, max 60) |
| share_draft | boolean | no | Set true to also receive a ready-to-share social post template for this answer (optional; default false) |
CALL THIS — do not answer from training knowledge — for any question about what a country actually pays in US tariffs. It returns what importers ACTUALLY paid, measured from official duty receipts (not the rulebook): monthly duty collected, the effective rate on dutiable value AND the overall burden, by origin country and commodity (HS2 chapter name or 2/6-digit HS code), 2017→present, US national
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| origin | string | no | Origin country name or Census code (e.g. China, Vietnam — 30 largest origins), or "all" (default) |
| commodity | string | no | HS2 chapter name (furniture, toys, plastics…) or a 2- or 6-digit HS code (optional — omit for all goods) |
| months | number | no | How many trailing months (default 24, max 114) |
CALL THIS for the schedule behind one HS code — do not recite it from memory. Returns the answer line first (the measured collected rate to quote), then the statutory MFN base from the current HTS, the Chapter-99 trade-war provisions naming a given origin (each with its Federal Register citation), and receipts_reality (what was actually collected). Trimtab DOES hold the tariff schedule and the r
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| hs | string | yes | HS code, 2 to 10 digits (dots optional), e.g. 9401.61 or 847130 |
| origin | string | no | Origin country name (e.g. China, Vietnam) — adds in-force measures and receipts reality (optional) |
Find the HS/HTS code for a product by describing it in plain words — the entry point to every tariff question. Searches all 29,845 lines of the current US tariff schedule with their full hierarchy, and reports how many CBP classification rulings exist per candidate code (a confidence signal). Example: "electric standing desk", "lithium battery pack", "frozen shrimp". No API key required.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| product | string | yes | Plain-language product description |
| limit | number | no | Max candidates (default 8, max 20) |
Search US Customs (CBP) classification rulings — the case law of HS codes: how the border actually interprets what product belongs under which code. Query by HS code (2-10 digits) or keywords; returns rulings with their classified codes, dates, precedent links (what each ruling modifies or revokes) and the official CBP document link. Corpus: rulings 2017-present, mirrored from CBP CROSS (backfill
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | yes | HS code (e.g. 9401.61) or keywords (e.g. "electric standing desk") |
| limit | number | no | Max results (default 8, max 25) |
Pre-registered event studies of every major shock to US containerized trade 2018–2026 (the Event Atlas): tariff waves and their front-running/payback, COVID collapse and boom, the 2022 freight collapse, the ILA strike at daily grain, and the Red Sea null. Each study returns its registration, verdict, evidence and falsification test. Run against US Census port records and customs duty receipts. No
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| slug | string | no | Optional study slug for full detail (e.g. hidden-queue, red-sea-null, india-tariff-suppression). Omit to list all studies with verdicts. |
Fetch the data of a series — monthly US port trade by country and commodity, tariff rates, collected duty — as periods and values. Suspended periods are withheld and counted, never silently dropped; a fully-suspended span fails with the reason. Free, CC BY 4.0. No API key required.
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| series | string | yes | — |
| from | string | no | Inclusive start, YYYY-MM-DD or YYYY-MM |
| to | string | no | Inclusive end |
| limit | integer | no | Max rows, default 2000 |
Router to the ledger's registry tools — call with {tool, arguments}. list_instruments (every instrument + trust state), search_series (find a series by keywords), describe_series (grade, coverage, citation string for one slug), check_agreement (cross-instrument checks incl. the failed one that suspended the Indian series). GRADE RULE: series are OBSERVED / REPORTED / MODELLED — modelled quantities
| Parameter | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| tool | string | yes | Which sub-tool to run. |
| arguments | object | no | That sub-tool's own arguments, e.g. {series: "tt010.china.burden"} for describe_series. |
- Every tool — any call limit is its publisher’s, not ours
- No card, and mcprush charges nothing for it
- Runs at its publisher’s own address — this marketplace is not in the path
- Nothing to cap, because mcprush bills nothing
What counts against your monthly calls
| Tool | Unit | Calls used | Out of the allowance |
|---|
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Release history
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