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The primary path is the IMF's own DataMapper API — the current edition, verbatim edition label passed through unrewritten. If that path is unavailable, StatCite falls back to the newest edition DBnomics has ingested, which can lag the IMF's release calendar; every response cites the resolved vintage, and a fallback that crosses editions is disclosed (verify_stat demotes such cases to cannot_verify rather than judging a claim against a superseded vintage). 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StatCite only routes providers through DBnomics whose own terms permit it (currently IMF).", "license_verified_on": "2026-07-25", "attribution_required": "Cite the underlying provider (StatCite citations do this automatically)", "url": "https://db.nomics.world", "terms_url": "https://docs.db.nomics.world/" }, { "id": "fred", "name": "Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis — FRED (permanently disabled)", "coverage": "Not served. The FRED Services Terms of Use, clauses (p) and (q), prohibit use in connection with training or running AI/ML/LLM systems and prohibit storing, caching or archiving FRED content, which conflicts with how this service serves data — there is no compliant way to offer it here.", "access": "Disabled — the six US-only registry keys and the fred/ series id are recognized but always decline", "license": "FRED Services Terms of Use, clauses (p) and (q) — see https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/", "license_verdict": "refused", "license_note": "Clauses (p)/(q) prohibit AI/ML/LLM-connected use and prohibit storing/caching/archiving content. StatCite is an AI-agent-facing service that edge-caches responses, so serving FRED is not compliant even with an operator key.", "license_verified_on": "2026-07-26", "attribution_required": "Not applicable — no FRED content is served.", "url": "https://fred.stlouisfed.org", "terms_url": "https://fred.stlouisfed.org/legal/" }, { "id": "un_comtrade", "name": "UN Comtrade (trade statistics) — not served", "coverage": "Not served. Detailed bilateral trade statistics exist here, but re-dissemination is licence-gated in a way StatCite cannot satisfy at zero cost.", "access": "Not integrated; evaluated and declined", "license": "UN Comtrade policy on use and re-dissemination", "license_verdict": "refused", "license_note": "The policy states \"To re-disseminate UN Comtrade data, a user must be an active premium subscriber\" and prices \"for-profit data extraction and/or streaming application[s]\" under a licensing fee. StatCite has paid surfaces (the Apify actor), so even free-tier ingestion would sit on the for-profit side of that line.", "license_verified_on": "2026-08-08", "attribution_required": "Not applicable — no UN Comtrade content is served.", "url": "https://comtradeplus.un.org", "terms_url": "https://uncomtrade.org/docs/policy-on-use-and-re-dissemination/" }, { "id": "eccb", "name": "Eastern Caribbean Central Bank statistics — not served", "coverage": "Not served. ECCU monetary and financial statistics are published by the ECCB, but its website terms do not permit the redistribution this service would perform.", "access": "Not integrated; evaluated and declined", "license": "ECCB website terms of use", "license_verdict": "refused", "license_note": "The ECCB's website terms (linked from its site footer; deep URLs on the site change) restrict reproduction/redistribution of site content without permission; serving its statistics through a caching public API is redistribution. Declined unless and until written permission exists.", "license_verified_on": "2026-07-31", "attribution_required": "Not applicable — no ECCB content is served.", "url": "https://www.eccb-centralbank.org", "terms_url": "https://www.eccb-centralbank.org" }, { "id": "cbb", "name": "Central Bank of Barbados statistics — not served", "coverage": "Not served. The Central Bank of Barbados publishes monetary and financial statistics, but its website terms do not permit the redistribution this service would perform.", "access": "Not integrated; evaluated and declined", "license": "Central Bank of Barbados website terms of use", "license_verdict": "refused", "license_note": "The Bank's website terms (linked from its site footer; deep URLs on the site change) restrict reproduction/redistribution of site content without permission; serving its statistics through a caching public API is redistribution. 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