How to Use the UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP in Windsurf

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Connect UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP to Windsurf

Create your Vinkius account to connect UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity to Windsurf and route execution through our secure gateway. The platform manages server hosting, runtime updates, and security layers. Configuration requires no manual server provisioning.

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Track Business Counts Across Sectors

The `get_business_counts` tool pulls current business figures from the IDBR register. You can see how many businesses exist, broken down by industry and location. This lets your AI client map out where economic activity is shifting. It retrieves UK business counts for both enterprises and local units.

Analyze Goods Imports and Exports

Need to check trade flows? Use `get_trade` to get monthly data on UK goods in goods imports, exports, and the balance. The figures are non-seasonally adjusted and reported in pounds million. It breaks down this massive dataset by country partner and specific commodity type. This is great for figuring out major trade partners.

Monitor Economic Activity via Traffic

The `get_traffic_activity` tool gives you an experimental view of economic health using traffic camera data. It acts as a real-time indicator of both social movement and broader economic change. Your agent can run sequences that combine this traffic data with business counts, giving a fuller picture than either source alone.

Setup guide

Set up UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP in Windsurf

Prerequisites

Windsurf IDE installed (macOS, Windows, or Linux)
Active Vinkius subscription with a valid endpoint token

1

Open MCP configuration

Click the Cascade assistant icon in the sidebar, then click the hammer icon (🔨) at the top of the panel. Select "Configure" to open ~/.codeium/windsurf/mcp_config.json.
2

Add the UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP

Paste the JSON snippet shown on the right into the mcpServers object. Replace [YOUR_TOKEN_HERE] with your endpoint token from cloud.vinkius.com.
3

Refresh MCPs

Go back to the hammer icon (🔨) in Cascade and click "Refresh". Windsurf will detect the new server. No full restart is needed — the connection is hot-reloaded.
4

Verify in Cascade

Start a new Cascade conversation and ask something like "Show my UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity payment history." If connected, Cascade will call the UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity tools directly. You will see a green dot next to the server name in the MCP panel.

mcp_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "uk-ons-trade-international-trade-business-activity-mcp": {
      "url": "https://edge.vinkius.com/[YOUR_TOKEN_HERE]/mcp"
    }
  }
}

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Common questions about UK ONS Trade — International Trade & Business Activity MCP in Windsurf

Windsurf lets your AI client run multi-step data pulls across multiple tools. You set the goal—like analyzing trade impact—and Cascade figures out the steps, pulling together goods trade data and business counts automatically.

It provides three main types: detailed good trade stats (imports/exports), current business registry data, and experimental traffic camera activity. These tools give a layered view of the economy.

Yes. Because Windsurf handles multi-tool sequencing, you can ask it to pull business counts and then immediately check the trade data for those regions to see correlations.

The server covers national statistics, breaking down business counts by industry and local units. The trade data is also organized geographically by partner country.

This server primarily accesses aggregate economic and business statistics. The main dataset touched is `uk-business-by-enterprises-and-local-units`.

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