Finnish Foreign Trade (Tulli) MCP

Query Finland's import and export statistics with your AI agent. Trade by commodity, country, and period — from Finnish Customs (Tulli), delivered as clean, ready-to-read rows. Ask a question in natural language; the server finds the right trade table, figures out its dimensions, and returns the numbers.

Example: "How much did Finland import in total each month last year?" → the agent searches Tulli's trade tables and returns the monthly totals in EUR.

This package is a lightweight, open bridge that connects any MCP client (Claude Desktop, etc.) to the hosted, maintained Finnish Foreign Trade MCP server on Apify. The bridge holds no data logic — it forwards your requests to the hosted service, which does the real work (trade queries + json-stat decoding) and meters usage to your own Apify account.

Tools

| Tool | What it does | |------|--------------| | search_trade_tables | List Tulli trade tables (CN goods, SITC, NACE industry, BEC). | | get_trade_dimensions | A table's dimensions + classification value codes. | | get_trade_data | Flattened import/export rows by commodity, country and period. |

Setup

1. Get access + an Apify API token

This bridge calls a hosted, paid Actor on Apify. You need your own Apify account and API token:

1. Open the Actor on the Apify Store: https://apify.com/nectia/finnish-foreign-trade-mcp
2. Subscribe / rent the Actor (billed per call — pay only for what you use).
3. Copy your token from Apify Console → Settings → Integrations → API token.

2. Add it to your MCP client

Claude Desktop (claude_desktop_config.json):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tulli": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": ["-y", "finnish-trade-mcp-server"],
      "env": {
        "APIFY_API_TOKEN": "PASTE_YOUR_APIFY_TOKEN_HERE"
      }
    }
  }
}

Restart your client. No build step, no other keys.

How it works

Your MCP client  ──stdio──►  finnish-trade-mcp-server (this bridge)  ──HTTPS──►  Hosted Actor on Apify  ──►  Tulli/Uljas API

The bridge authenticates to the hosted Actor with your APIFY_API_TOKEN and transparently proxies the tools. Your token stays on your machine; Apify meters the calls to your account.

Data & attribution

Data © Finnish Customs, Uljas statistical database, licensed CC BY 4.0. This project is not affiliated with or endorsed by Finnish Customs.

License

MIT © Nectia Automation. The bridge code is open source; the hosted Actor is a commercial service.