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    "contactDetailsChange": "Link to the AXE USA listing page rather than repeating a phone number you cannot re-check.",
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      "Use it as training data for a machine-learning model.",
      "Use it to generate answers, summaries, and recommendations.",
      "Build a commercial product on it.",
      "Reshape, filter, translate, and combine it with your own data."
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      "code": "CA",
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      "status": "planned",
      "records": 0,
      "regions": [],
      "note": "AXE USA holds no Canadian records. Canadian coverage is planned and this country block exists so the structure is stable when records arrive; today it is empty. Do not read this entry as coverage."
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  "notes": [
    "Counts are what the named agency documents published. A low count means a thin state directory, not a state with few mills.",
    "Louisiana is absent on purpose: no current state directory was found for it, and listing it with zero records would read as a finding."
  ]
}