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Build with the evidence.

Connect verified Canada–China trade observations, published economic intelligence and market-access records to your research, software and AI applications.

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FREE ACCESS · READ ONLY · NO API KEY · PUBLIC PREVIEW

01 / MEASURE

Observe trade

Historical movements, product detail and separately labelled statistical bases.

02 / CONNECT

Read intelligence

Source-grounded developments and reviewed Canadian business context.

03 / MONITOR

Track conditions

Market-access measures and publication coverage with explicit dates.

01 / QUICKSTART

One request. Structured evidence.

Use a standard GET request. The response is a published snapshot, with dates, units and source metadata where supported.

TERMINAL / cURL

curl -fsSL https://obor.ca/data/trade_flows.json

JAVASCRIPT / FETCH

const response = await fetch(
  'https://obor.ca/data/trade_flows.json'
);
if (!response.ok) throw new Error('Unavailable');
const trade = await response.json();
console.log(trade.latest_period);
console.log(trade.latest.exports.cad_millions);

TRY IT / LIVE PUBLIC SNAPSHOT

Inspect a JSON response

Request a published file and preview the result. Nothing runs until you select Send.

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{
  "method": "GET",
  "state": "ready"
}

02 / DATA DIRECTORY

Published data, open for inspection.

These 14 JSON files are on OBOR's approved public-file allowlist. Fetch complete files and filter locally; no server-side query parameters or pagination are provided.

TRADE & ECONOMIC MEASUREMENTS6 DATASETS

Trade flows

Balance-of-payments monthly bilateral totals; seasonally adjusted, CAD millions.

/data/trade_flows.json

Trade detail

Customs-basis unadjusted China trade by province and NAPCS merchandise section.

/data/trade_detail.json

Trade history

Verified historical customs observations for comparative trade research.

/data/trade_history.json

Selected HS6 products

Source-observed, editorially selected product records; not a complete HS6 universe.

/data/trade_hs6.json

Economic dashboard

Summarized public measurements used by OBOR's economic research interfaces.

/data/economic_dashboard.json

China indicator history

Source-linked Chinese economic indicators; sparse published observations.

/data/china_indicator_history.json

INTELLIGENCE & CONTEXT5 DATASETS

Published intelligence

Published evidence-backed signals with source chronology and Canadian context.

/data/signals.json

Market-access registry

Reviewed policy conditions with verification, effective and expiry dates.

/data/market_access.json

Trade context

Reviewed thematic links between products, sectors and publications, not causation.

/data/trade_context.json

Economic mechanisms

Explanatory research notes and bounded transmission mechanisms.

/data/knowledge.json

Homepage digest

Compact publication digest for the website's latest intelligence presentation.

/data/home.json

MONITORING & PROVENANCE3 DATASETS

Monitoring Pulse

Latest source-collection coverage and publication-monitoring state.

/data/pulse.json

Pulse history

Historical publication and collection-health snapshots.

/data/pulse-history.json

Source registry

Institutional sources and collection configuration; not a coverage guarantee.

/data/sources.json

03 / INTEGRATION NOTES

Keep the evidence intact.

Data access is free. Published evidence still has methodological and reuse boundaries.

01 / DATE

Read the timestamps

generated_at, latest_period, published_at and verified_on can describe different events. Check source-specific freshness; a newly generated file can include older observations.

02 / BASIS

Compare like with like

Balance-of-payments aggregate trade is seasonally adjusted. Customs detail and HS6 product observations are unadjusted. Do not merge unlike bases or infer individual company exposure.

03 / DELIVERY

Use HTTP GET

Public JSON is served as static files. No accounts, key management, write endpoints, query engine or pagination. Read-only cross-origin requests are permitted; consumers must handle unavailable or failed responses.

04 / CONTRACT

Expect evolving schemas

Some files expose schema_version. This is a public-data preview, without an API versioning guarantee, uptime SLA, backward-compatibility promise or paid support contract.

05 / SOURCE

Retain provenance

Preserve source publisher, URL, measurement unit, period and OBOR attribution. Policy records are bounded; verify shipment and product eligibility from the primary authority.

06 / RIGHTS

Review reuse terms

Free retrieval does not grant blanket redistribution or sublicensing rights over underlying third-party material. Consult original source terms before commercial republication.

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