# mfgcalcs MCP server

5,400+ manufacturing calculators plus live U.S. tariff, PMI, cost-index, wage, and forecast data.

## Links
- Registry page: https://www.getdrio.com/mcp/com-mfgcalcs-mfgcalcs
- Website: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/developers

## Install
- Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- Auth: Not captured

## Setup notes
- Remote endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp

## Tools
- search_calculators - Search MFG Calcs' library of 5,400+ manufacturing calculators (machining, molding, welding, OEE, cost estimating, energy, quality, maintenance, and more). Returns matching calculators with their tool slug for run_calculator. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_calculator - Get a calculator's inputs (labels, units, defaults) and formula before running it. Use the tool slug from search_calculators. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- run_calculator - Run a manufacturing calculation. Provide inputs by field key or slugified label (see get_calculator); missing inputs use the calculator's documented defaults. Returns labeled results with units, the formula, and a citation URL that should be shared with the user. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- lookup_tariff - Look up current U.S. import tariff rates on manufacturing materials, components, and equipment: statutory HTS duty rates (MFN, special programs, Section 301/232 flags) and the effective rate importers actually paid (calculated duties / customs value), plus the implied import price ($/kg or $/unit) for single-unit material families, top source countries with market shares, and a sourcing-concentration verdict (HHI). Query by keyword ('fasteners', 'aluminum'), family key ('steel-fasteners'), or HTS code/prefix ('7318' or '7318.15.20'). Reference data from USITC, not a customs ruling — cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_tariff_index - Get the U.S. Manufacturing Effective-Tariff Index: the empirical effective tariff rate U.S. manufacturers actually pay (total calculated duties / total customs value) across a constant manufacturing panel, monthly since 2014-01, rebased to an index (base = 100). Returns the latest reading (effective rate, index, month-over-month and year-over-year change in percentage points) and the full monthly series, plus CSV/JSON/methodology download URLs. This is the single citable, redistributable benchmark for the manufacturing tariff burden (100% USITC public-domain), the empirical counterpart to the statutory MFN column. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- rank_landed_cost - Rank the source countries for a U.S. manufacturing import family by fully-loaded landed cost, to answer 'where is it cheapest to source X from?'. Each lane's effective duty and freight share are real USITC DataWeb figures; uplift = (1 + duty) x (1 + freight). Where the family has an implied unit price, a dollar landed cost per kg/unit is included; otherwise lanes rank by the duty+freight uplift only. Also returns source concentration (HHI) and a forward FX cost-direction per lane. Pass a family key (e.g. 'steel-flat-rolled', 'bearings', 'aluminum-semis'); omit it to list every family with its cheapest source. A sourcing indicator, not a customs quote — cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- reshoring_score - Get the Reshoring Readiness Index (RRI) for a U.S. manufacturing import family, to answer 'should the US reshore X?' / 'how strong is the case to bring X production home?'. A transparent 0-100 monthly score (higher = stronger case): 0.45 x tariff pressure (effective rate level + trend) + 0.30 x import dependence (exports vs imports) + 0.25 x sourcing concentration (HHI), methodology versioned and published. Pass a family key (e.g. 'bearings', 'steel-flat-rolled') for the full detail and monthly series back to 2014; omit it for the ranked leaderboard of all families. A screening indicator built on USITC public data, not sourcing advice — cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_tariff_bill - Get the U.S. Manufacturing Tariff Bill: the dollars U.S. manufacturers actually paid in import duties (calculated duties) summed across a constant manufacturing panel, monthly since 2014. Returns the latest month's bill, year-over-year change, trailing-12-month total, the full monthly dollar series, and an annual bill-by-family board (which families paid the most duty). This is the ETI's numerator in dollars — NOT total U.S. customs revenue, only the tracked manufacturing panel. 100% USITC public-domain. Cite the returned url. Use points='latest' or a number to trim the series. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_policy_premium - Get the Policy Premium: how much of each manufacturing family's tariff is Section 301/232 policy overlay versus the statutory HTS schedule, computed as the realized effective rate minus the statutory MFN median (percentage points). Answers 'how much of the tariff on X is policy, not the base schedule?'. Pass a family key for one family; omit it for the full board ranked by highest overlay. Families with no stated statutory median are returned separately (noBaseline). USITC public-domain. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_tariff_dollars_by_country - Get Tariff Dollars by Country: the duties paid (USD) by origin country across the tracked U.S. manufacturing panel, ranked, with each country's shipped value, effective burden, and per-year duty trend. Answers 'who pays America's manufacturing tariffs, in dollars?'. Pass a country slug or name for one origin; omit it for the full ranked board. Totals are a FLOOR (they sum only family-years where the country is a named top source). USITC public-domain. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_source_shift - Get Source-Shift ('Who Replaced China'): for every tracked U.S. manufacturing import family, how foreign sourcing moved since the pre-Section-301 base year (2018) — the #1 source country then vs now, whether the #1 source flipped, how far China's import share fell or rose (percentage points), and the country that gained the most share. Answers 'who replaced China for X?' and 'which products moved off China the most?'. Pass a family key or label for one family; omit it for the full board ranked by biggest China exit. Shares are of the year's true customs-value total. USITC public-domain. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_tariff_effect - Get 'Did the Tariff Work?': for every tracked U.S. manufacturing family whose trailing-12-month effective tariff rate stepped up by at least 5 points, the import customs-value response — the year of imports before the step versus a full 12-month window after, with a fell/held/rose verdict. Answers 'did the tariff on X reduce imports?'. Pass a family key or label for one family; omit it for the full board ranked by biggest rate step. IMPORTANT: this is OBSERVATIONAL co-movement, not a causal estimate (demand, FX, other policy, the pandemic moved imports too), and the metric is declared customs VALUE (price x quantity), not physical volume. Cite the returned url and the caveat. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_sourcing_diversification - Get the Sourcing Diversification Tracker: for every tracked U.S. manufacturing family, the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI, 0-10000) of import-source concentration, its 2018 base versus latest reading, and a diversifying/concentrating/steady verdict. Answers 'is sourcing for X getting more concentrated or more spread out?' and 'which families lean on the fewest supplier countries?'. Pass a family key or label for one family; omit it for the full board ranked most-concentrating first. HHI rests only on named source countries (a floor on true concentration); it is a supply-risk read, not sourcing advice. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_import_price_movers - Get Import Price Movers: for every tracked U.S. manufacturing family that reports a single unit of quantity, the implied import price ($/unit = declared customs value / quantity) and its year-over-year move, ranked by the biggest move. Answers 'which imported goods got more or less expensive?' and 'what is the implied import price of aluminum articles?'. Pass a family key or label for one family; omit it for the full board ranked by biggest absolute price move. Each row also carries the family's latest effective tariff rate for context. IMPORTANT: implied price is an average across every HTS line and origin in the family, NOT a quoted market price; a move can reflect tariff pass-through, freight, currency, or a mix shift. USITC public-domain. Cite the returned url and caveat. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_duty_free_routes - Get the Duty-Free Route Badge: for every tracked U.S. manufacturing family, whether a duty-free import route exists on the base tariff schedule — a line already free to all origins (MFN-free), or a reciprocal free-trade-agreement preference that zeroes the MFN duty for a partner country — and how the Chapter 99 overlay layer (Section 232 / 301 / IEEPA additional duties on 9903.xx headings) sits on top of it. Answers 'can I import X duty-free?' and 'does an FTA route survive the tariffs?'. Pass a family key or label for one family; omit it for the full board. IMPORTANT: a Chapter 99 overlay generally applies on top of the MFN or FTA rate regardless of an origin claim, so a route that looks duty-free on the base schedule can still carry the overlay; the board reports how much of each family survives it. Only reciprocal FTAs are counted; unilateral programs (GSP, AGOA, CBI) are excluded. Reference data, not a customs ruling. USITC HTS public-domain. Cite the returned url and caveat. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_wage_board - Get the Manufacturing Wage Board: factory pay across the core U.S. manufacturing trades — the BLS OEWS median hourly wage per trade (machinists, welders, CNC operators, tool-and-die makers, industrial engineers, production managers, and more), each with its highest- and lowest-paying state and the geographic spread; a per-state wage index against the national median (100 = national median); and the manufacturing average-hourly-earnings pressure trend with its year-over-year change. Answers 'what does a machinist make?', 'which state pays welders the most?', and 'are manufacturing wages rising?'. Pass a trade key (e.g. 'machinist'), label, or SOC code (e.g. '51-4041') for one trade; omit it for the full board plus the state index and pressure gauge. OEWS medians are a survey-year snapshot, not cost-of-living adjusted. BLS public-domain. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_forecast - Get MFG Calcs Forecasts: a six-month statistical forecast for every live U.S. manufacturing series that clears the gate (>= 12 monthly observations, backtest MAPE <= 35%) — market prices, producer prices, energy, rates, trade flows, and factory demand. Answers 'where is copper / diesel / the 10-year treasury heading?'. Pass a series slug (e.g. 'ppi-aluminum-mill-shapes', 'wti-crude-oil-spot') for one series with its full history, forecast band, and backtest track record; omit it for the board ranked by biggest projected move. IMPORTANT: this is STATISTICAL EXTRAPOLATION of each series' own shape via damped Holt-Winters, NOT a market or policy forecast — it knows nothing about pending Fed decisions or OPEC actions. Always cite the returned url, the prediction band, and the backtest MAPE. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_forecast_accuracy - Get the Forecast Accuracy Ledger: the self-graded track record of the MFG Calcs deterministic forecaster. Aggregates every published forecast's walk-forward backtest (one-step-ahead predictions made on data the model had not seen, versus the actual that arrived) into: the number of forecasts graded and total observations; observation-level absolute percentage error (median, mean, 90th percentile); the share of predictions within 5% and 10% of actual; the directional hit rate (did the model call the sign of the next move); median error by category; and the most- and least-accurate series. Answers 'how accurate are these forecasts?' and 'should I trust the manufacturing forecasts?'. Takes no arguments. IMPORTANT: this is ONE-STEP-AHEAD out-of-sample accuracy (short-horizon calibration); the published forecasts run six months out and error compounds with horizon. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_cost_pressure_index - Get the MFG Calcs Manufacturing Cost Pressure Index (MCPI): the flagship one-number read on the input-cost pressure a U.S. manufacturer faces, base month = 100, joining five live drivers — materials (input PPIs for steel, aluminum, copper, resins, chemicals), labor (factory earnings), energy (electricity and natural gas), tariffs (the effective-rate cost multiplier), and the import dollar (an import-weighted FX index) — into a single indexed series. Returns the current level, its year-over-year and month-over-month change, the monthly history, and the EXACT component decomposition: because the index is a weighted sum of the sub-indices, each driver's contribution to the headline year-over-year change adds up to the whole with no residual. Answers 'how much have U.S. manufacturing costs risen?' and 'what is driving factory cost pressure?'. Pass points=latest for just the current reading or points=<n> for the last n months; omit for the full history. IMPORTANT: this is an ILLUSTRATIVE composite, not an official statistic — its value is a FROZEN, documented, reproducible methodology. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_input_cost_diffusion - Get the MFG Calcs Input Cost Diffusion Index (ICDI): the BREADTH of manufacturing input-cost increases, a classic diffusion index (the construction behind the ISM PMI) over a frozen basket of 16 input-cost series (input PPIs, industrial electricity, natural gas, factory earnings). The index is the share rising: 100 x (risers + 0.5 x unchanged) / basket size, so 50 is balance and above 50 means broad-based cost increases. Returns the year-over-year and month-over-month diffusion, a 3-month smoothed reading, and each input's direction. It complements the Cost Pressure Index (MCPI): MCPI measures the MAGNITUDE of cost pressure, this measures how WIDESPREAD it is. Takes no arguments. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_supply_chain_fragility - Get the MFG Calcs Supply Chain Fragility Index: a branded 0-100 score per manufacturing family for how fragile its import supply chain is (higher = more fragile), plus a manufacturing-wide headline. Each score decomposes into four drivers: import concentration (the Herfindahl-Hirschman index versus the DOJ/FTC highly-concentrated line), single-country dependence (the top source's share), tariff exposure (the effective rate), and top-source currency volatility. Answers 'which manufacturing supply chains are most fragile?' and 'how exposed is the bearing / fastener supply chain?'. Pass a family key (e.g. 'steel-fasteners') or label for one family; omit for the ranked board plus the most-fragile and most-resilient leaderboards. FX volatility applies only to families whose top source uses a tracked currency. An illustrative composite on a frozen methodology, not an official statistic. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_state_cost_index - Get the MFG Calcs State Cost-to-Manufacture Index: what it costs to manufacture in each U.S. state, national average = 100 (higher = costlier), blending the state manufacturing-wage index (75%) and the state industrial electricity price versus national (25%). Answers 'which state is cheapest to manufacture in?' and 'how expensive is manufacturing in California / Texas?'. Pass a state code (e.g. 'TX') or name for one state; omit for the full ranked board of the 50 states and DC plus the cheapest and priciest. An illustrative composite of two live cost factors, not a full site-selection model (it excludes taxes, land, and incentives). Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_cost_pass_through - Get the MFG Calcs Cost Pass-Through Index: how much of an upstream raw-materials cost move shows up in downstream fabricated-goods prices, and with what lag. It fits a fabricated-goods producer-price index (machinery, castings, fasteners) against a raw-materials producer-price index (steel, aluminum, copper, resins, chemicals, iron and steel, lumber, paper) shifted 0 to 6 months, and reports the best-fitting lag, the pass-through coefficient (output-YoY points per input-YoY point), the correlation, and how much recent input-cost inflation has not yet reached output prices. Answers 'are input costs being passed through to prices?' and 'how long until material costs hit fabricated-goods prices?'. Takes no arguments. A statistical relationship, not a causal claim. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_manufacturing_pmi - Get the MFG Calcs PMI: a free, open, reproducible Purchasing Managers' Index-style diffusion index for U.S. manufacturing, built entirely from public federal hard data (the ISM and S&P Global PMIs are proprietary and paywalled). Returns a 0-100 headline where 50 is the expansion/contraction line, its month-over-month change, a 3-month average, the run of consecutive months on one side of 50 (e.g. 'third month of contraction'), and the five equal-weighted components (New Orders, Production, Employment, Supplier Deliveries, Inventories) with their sub-indexes. Also returns a corroboration panel of the regional Federal Reserve manufacturing surveys converted to the same scale. CHECK THE status FIELD: 'provisional' means the newest month is a preliminary reading over the components that have published so far (weights renormalized; the absent ones are named in missingComponents) and will be revised — say so when quoting it, and use finalThrough for the last settled month. Answers 'is US manufacturing expanding or contracting?' and 'what is the manufacturing PMI?'. Takes no arguments. An illustrative hard-data composite, not the ISM survey. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_reshoring_break_even - Get the MFG Calcs Reshoring Break-Even Line: for each manufacturing family with an import unit value and a matching domestic producer price, the effective tariff rate at which the landed import price equals the domestic price, versus the tariff in force. A positive gap means the current tariff already prices imports above domestic (a strong reshoring case); a negative gap means imports are still cheaper even with the tariff on. Answers 'has the tariff made reshoring pencil out for fasteners / steel?'. Pass a family key or label for one family; omit for the full board. IMPORTANT: an INDICATIVE signal, not a dollar quote; it assumes base-year price parity (there is no domestic dollar-per-unit cost) and import unit values shift with product mix. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_tariff_action_ledger - Get the MFG Calcs Tariff Action Ledger: a chronological, git-timestamped record of every major move in the manufacturing effective tariff rate since 2014 (each episode where the rate stepped at least 1 percentage point month over month), and what happened after. For each episode it returns the dates, the rate before and after, the cumulative move, and the change in import customs value and in the tariff bill over the six months after the episode versus the six months before. Answers 'did the tariffs actually reduce imports?' and 'what happened after the 2025 tariff hike?'. Takes no arguments. IMPORTANT: this is an ASSOCIATION, not a causal claim; import customs value moves for many reasons at once and can be price or quantity. Recent episodes marked accruing do not have enough after-data yet. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_provenance - Get the MFG Calcs Provenance Manifest: the verifiable record for every branded index and ledger on the site. For each one it returns a SHA-256 of the committed artifact and of every committed public-data input it was built from, plus the generator that reproduces it and the page that renders it. Use this to VERIFY a number before quoting it: re-hash the committed artifact (integrity), re-run the named generator on the committed inputs (reproducibility), and read the git history (timestamp). Takes no arguments. The hashes prove the artifacts are intact and reproducible, not the correctness of the underlying government data. Cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- get_eti_outlook - Get the Effective-Tariff Index Outlook: a six-month statistical forecast band on the manufacturing effective-tariff rate, from a walk-forward-validated damped Holt-Winters model, with its out-of-sample backtest error (MAPE). Answers 'where is the manufacturing tariff burden heading?'. This is STATISTICAL EXTRAPOLATION of the series shape, NOT a policy forecast — it knows nothing about pending Federal Register actions. Cite the returned url and the labeled uncertainty. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- search_site - Search everything on mfgcalcs.com beyond calculators: 64 live economic data series (imports, prices, wages, energy), 57 tariff families, state cost data, calculator categories, and datasets. Returns typed matches with URLs to cite. Use search_calculators for the 5,407 calculators themselves. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp
- ask - Answer a natural-language question about U.S. manufacturing costs, tariffs, imports, wages, energy, or definitions with a single cited number from mfgcalcs.com's live committed data. Deterministic — no LLM. Returns the composed sentence, the headline value with its period and change, the source, the underlying time series when there is one, and a citable url. Ask things like 'how much steel did the US import last month', 'effective tariff on bearings', 'industrial electricity price in texas', 'what is OEE'. This is the same engine MFGSearch and MFGChat run; cite the returned url. Endpoint: https://www.mfgcalcs.com/api/mcp

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- Owner: com.mfgcalcs
- Version: 1.0.0
- Runtime: Streamable Http
- Transports: HTTP
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- Updated: Jul 28, 2026
- Source: https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io