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The Trade Policy panel (internal id trade-policy) is the dashboard’s go-to surface for live trade-policy context — what’s getting restricted, where tariffs are moving, how flows are shifting, what barriers exist, and how US customs revenue is tracking as a real-time signal of tariff pass-through.

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What the panel shows

Six tabs across one data-dense panel (defaultRowSpan: 2): TabId is the union 'restrictions' | 'tariffs' | 'flows' | 'barriers' | 'revenue' | 'comtrade' (src/components/TradePolicyPanel.ts:17). Panel id is trade-policy; canonical component is src/components/TradePolicyPanel.ts. Title resolves from i18n (panels.tradePolicy).

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How you reach it

  • Cmd+K: type trade, tariff, or customs.
  • Availability by variant: registered and enabled by default in the full/geopolitical (priority: 1), finance (priority: 1), and commodity (priority: 1) variants. Not present in the tech or happy variants. Source: 'trade-policy' entries in FULL_PANELS, FINANCE_PANELS, COMMODITY_PANELS of src/config/panels.ts.

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Data sources

Six response shapes from @/services/trade, each backed by a generated sebuf REST RPC in TradeService. The panel shell is free; tariff trends and Comtrade calls use premiumFetch because those two paths are premium transport paths, while restrictions, flows, barriers, and customs revenue use the public client. Customs revenue also checks the bootstrap cache key customsRevenue before falling back to the RPC. The revenue tab’s US-Treasury feed is particularly sensitive — see the changelog entry for “US Treasury customs revenue in Trade Policy panel” (#1663).

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Refresh cadence

Per-tab fetches on mount and on tab switch; no polling. Upstream seeders run on varying cadences per dataset (tariffs daily, Comtrade monthly).

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Tier & gating

Panel shell is free. No premium flag in variant registrations. The generated REST service is mixed: restrictions, flows, barriers, and customs revenue are public; get-tariff-trends and list-comtrade-flows are premium RPC paths and degrade to empty data without an entitled session or API key.

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API reference

  • Trade service — full schemas and query parameters for the six tab-backing RPCs.