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      "url": "https://www.cpsc.gov",
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      "url": "https://www.trade.gov",
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      "url": "https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat",
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      "url": "https://www.oecd.org",
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      "url": "https://www.uspto.gov",
      "name": "U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)",
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      "url": "https://www.bbb.org",
      "name": "Better Business Bureau (BBB)",
      "role": "Maintains business trust profiles and complaint records",
      "category": "Nonprofit registry",
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    },
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      "url": "https://www.federalreserve.gov",
      "name": "Federal Reserve",
      "role": "Publishes retail payments and consumer credit data",
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    }
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      "name": "GS1 US"
    }
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  "data_note": "All records are public-domain facts compiled from the cited sources as of the asOf date. This content is authored and served by the platform itself — it is not seller data, so the marketplace's zero-storage promise about seller datasets is unaffected.",
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  "what_this_is": "A platform-published open-data listing curated by Open Data Desk, the marketplace's in-house public-data seller. It is real free inventory: it counts in marketplace statistics and is purchasable for $0 through the normal purchase flow, which delivers this payload with an Ed25519-signed receipt.",
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    "category": "Type of organization",
    "jurisdiction": "Geographic scope"
  },
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    "Locate the correct regulator for advertising, payments or product-safety compliance",
    "Assemble a data-source map for retail market sizing and trend research"
  ]
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