The Trade Events API provides data on events for U.S. businesses interested in selling their products and services overseas. These events include industry conferences, webinars, lectures, and trade missions organized by ITA and other trade agencies including:
The output format for this API is JSON. This data set is updated hourly. Test the API using the demo search app. Be sure to sign up for an API key to get access to the API.
Exporting can be very lucrative but also very complicated – especially for new businesses. Businesses can get tremendous value from meeting with trade specialists and learning about new opportunities for their business.
ITA and the trade agencies add new events all the time, so this is a great resource for dynamic content. Use these events to augment information you have about a particular country, industry, or topic. For example, ThinkGlobal.com uses them as a way to attract customers to their mobile app.
This endpoint will search across all four trade event sources. To search a subset, see sources below.
Searches for a match within the registration_title, description, event_name, industries, city, venues.city, venues.state, venues.country, contacts.first_name, contacts.last_name, and contacts.person_title fields.
https://api.govwizely.com/v1/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&q={term}
Example
Returns trade events for specific controlled industry names. This method allows you to search for multiple industries (plural) separated by commas.
https://api.govwizely.com/v1/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&industries={terms}
Example
Returns trade events for a specific country based on ISO alpha-2 country codes. This method allows you to search for multiple countries (plural) separated by commas but will only return one country (singular) per event.
https://api.govwizely.com/v1/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&countries={country code}
Example
Searches only the events specified by the Source Abbreviation.
https://api.govwizely.com/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&sources={event source}
Example
Source Abbreviations are as follows:
Returns events based on their start date. Dates are filtered by comparing them against an inclusive range, which must be entered with the following format: YYYY-mm-dd TO YYYY-mm-dd. Searching on a single date can be done by entering the same value for the start and end of the range.
https://api.govwizely.com/v1/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&start_date={YYYY-mm-dd TO YYYY-mm-dd}
Example
Returns events based on their end date. Dates are filtered by comparing them against an inclusive range, which must be entered with the following format: YYYY-mm-dd TO YYYY-mm-dd. Searching on a single date can be done by entering the same value for the start and end of the range.
https://api.govwizely.com/v1/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&end_date={YYYY-mm-dd TO YYYY-mm-dd}
Example
The size parameter allows you to configure the number of results to be returned up to a maximum of 100. The offset parameter defines the offset from the first result you want to fetch. Unless specified the API returns 10 results at a time.
https://api.govwizely.com/v1/trade_events/search?api_key={your key}&size={1 to 100}&offset={1 to n}
Example
Recency information about each source queried is given in sources_used in the following fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| source | The name of the issuing agency. |
| source_last_updated | The most recent date and time the data changed. |
| last_imported | The most recent date and time the data was imported. |
The source_last_updated field reflects the most recent date and time we noticed that the issuing agency had updated the data. We check for updates and import lists hourly.
The search_performed_at field displays the date and time of the current search in UTC.
State Department (DL)
International Trade Administration (ITA)
Small Business Administration (SBA)
U.S. Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)
Each event source returns a unique set of fields. Not every source provides all fields.
| Field | Description | Source |
|---|---|---|
| id | Unique identifier for event. | DL, ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| event_name | Name given for the event. | DL, ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| event_type | The type of the event (ITA Values). | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| start_date | Start date of the event. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| start_time | The start time of the event. | SBA, USTDA |
| end_date | The date the event will end. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| end_time | The end time of the event. | SBA, USTDA |
| time_zone | The time zone of the event’s location. | SBA |
| cost | Cost of the event. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| cost_currency | The currency of the cost value. | USTDA |
| registration_link | URL for the event’s registration page. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| registration_title | Title of the registration URL. | ITA, USTDA |
| description | Text describing the event. | DL, ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| industries | Industry categories assigned to the event. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| ita_industries | The ITA industries associated with the assigned industries. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| url | Link to the event’s web page. | DL, ITA, USTDA |
| venues | Venues array. Fields in italics. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| address | Street address of the venue. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| city | City of the venue. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| country | Country of the venue. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| state | State of the venue. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| venue | Name of the venue. | ITA, SBA, USTDA |
| contacts | Contacts array. Fields in italics. | ITA, SBA |
| Contact’s email address. | ITA, SBA | |
| first_name | Contact’s first name. | ITA, SBA |
| last_name | Contact’s last name. | ITA, SBA |
| person_title | Contact’s company title. | ITA, SBA |
| phone | Contact’s phone number. | ITA, SBA |
| post | Contact’s location. | ITA, SBA |
| first_name | The event contact’s first name. | USTDA |
| last_name | The event contact’s last name. | USTDA |
| post | The event contact’s location. | USTDA |
| person_title | The event contact’s title. | USTDA |
| phone | The event contact’s phone number. | USTDA |
| The event contact’s email address. | USTDA | |
| source | Agency providing the event information. | DL, ITA, SBA |
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