comtrade-trade-data

What comtrade-trade-data does on Meta Data Mcp

AI agents call comtrade-trade-data to retrieve information from Meta Data Mcp without modifying anything. It is typically the context-gathering step in research, monitoring, and reporting workflows, before the agent takes action elsewhere.

Why comtrade-trade-data is rated Low

This tool retrieves trade statistics from the UN Comtrade database, which is a public open data API. It performs a query operation to fetch historical trade data, characteristic of a Read category tool. No modification, execution of code, deletion, or financial transactions occur. The low severity reflects the public nature of the data and absence of system-level or financial impact.

From the tool's definition Tool name 'comtrade-trade-data' and description 'Query UN Comtrade for bilateral merchandise or services trade' indicate data retrieval from a public database. The verb 'Query' denotes a read-only operation with no side effects.

The rule that runs comtrade-trade-data safely

PolicyLayer is an MCP gateway: it sits between your AI agents and Meta Data Mcp, and checks every tool call against a rule you set before the call runs. Nothing changes on the server itself. For comtrade-trade-data, this is the rule to start with:

{
  "version": "1",
  "default": "deny",
  "tools": {
    "comtrade-trade-data": {}
  }
}

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