Usitc Edis MCP server

@pipeworx/usitc-edis — USITC investigation docket (Section 337 / Title VII)

The case docket for US International Trade Commission investigations: Section 337 (unfair import / patent) cases and Title VII (antidumping/countervailing- duty, "Import Injury") cases, via IDS (Investigations Database System, ids.usitc.gov) — search/list across all ~4,400 investigations, full detail for one. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1681+ live data sources.

What's NOT here: filed documents (EDIS)

This pack does not serve EDIS (Electronic Document Information System, edis.usitc.gov) — the documents filed in an investigation and their attachments. EDIS's WAF returns a 403 (disguised as its generic "under maintenance" HTML page) to any User-Agent that isn't a recognized generic HTTP-client signature, even when a valid API key is sent — verified live 2026-09-24. An earlier version of this pack cleared that block by prefixing its User-Agent with curl/8.7.1 , impersonating a different client. Bruce ruled against that (2026-09-25), reversing an earlier case ruling that had allowed it, so the edis_* tools were removed along with the token/curl plumbing that only existed to serve them.

Filed documents at EDIS await a USITC allowlist of our honest User-Agent (pipeworx-usitc-edis/1.0 (+https://pipeworx.io)). Re-adding an EDIS path here needs either that allowlisting or some other non-impersonating route past the WAF — not a re-add of the curl prefix.

Tools

Auth

Everything in this pack is keyless, verified live 2026-09-24. IDS (advanced-search, investigation/{id}, lookup/investigation-types) all answer real data with no credential at all. The only header requirement is a browser-shaped Origin/Referer (not a credential, just what a same-origin page sends); a plain User-Agent alone was rejected.

Data sources

search/list, paginated.

• https://ids.usitc.gov/idata/api/v1/advanced-search (POST) — investigation

investigation detail.

• https://ids.usitc.gov/idata/api/v1/investigation/{id} (GET) — full

the 4 top-level type categories.

• https://ids.usitc.gov/idata/api/v1/lookup/investigation-types (GET) —

Traps for the next builder

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.