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Prediction Series · Lock · Issue P-27
Prediction Series · P-27

US tariff floor — ≥10% trade-weighted, locked at year-end.

~0.80 probability the US trade-weighted average applied import-tariff rate stays ≥10% at Dec 31 2026. Current rate ~11.7%. The resolution metric is explicit: Tax Foundation tracker, cross-checked vs Federal Register/USTR.

Type · Prediction Lock · calibrated binary Locked · 2026-06-21 · before year-end Resolves · 2026-12-31 · Tax Foundation tariff tracker (Dec 31 2026 reading) Scored · binary: trade-weighted average tariff ≥10% on Dec 31 2026
Current US trade-weighted average tariff
~11.7%
Tax Foundation tracker · Jun 2026

Tax Foundation tariff tracker (taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/tariffs/), Jun 2026. 10% baseline floor under Sec 301 replacement plan; ~60 partners already at 10–12.5%. The call locks ≥10% under any legal authority.

— 1 · The Locked Call

Trade-weighted tariff stays ≥10% on Dec 31 2026 — P = 0.80.

We lock a binary claim: the US trade-weighted average applied import-tariff rate (as measured by the Tax Foundation tariff tracker) is ≥10% on December 31 2026, under any legal authority. Confidence 0.80. The current reading is ~11.7% — 170bp above the threshold.

— 2 · Why it's nail-able

Current rate 11.7%, 170bp above threshold; Sec 122 sunset is the key risk.

The Tax Foundation tariff tracker shows the trade-weighted average at ~11.7% as of Jun 2026, anchored on a planned Sec 301 replacement: ~60 partners at 10% (14) or 12.5% (46). The key risk is the Sec 122 tariff floor, which sunsets Jul 24 2026; the administration's plan swaps it to Sec 301 authority to maintain the floor. We use the Tax Foundation tracker as the resolution source (cross-checked vs Federal Register and USTR notices) and score ≥10% under any legal authority — eliminating the Sec 122-vs-Sec 301 definitional trap.

Locked on 2026-06-21 — scored against the Tax Foundation trade-weighted tariff rate on Dec 31 2026.

RAOSCAFF locks P-27 on 2026-06-21. The resolution metric (Tax Foundation tracker, cross-checked vs Federal Register) is pre-committed so there is no ambiguity about which figure to read.

Locked
2026-06-21 (commit timestamp on origin/main)
Resolves
2026-12-31 — Tax Foundation tariff tracker reading as of Dec 31 2026
Source
Tax Foundation (taxfoundation.org/research/all/federal/tariffs/), cross-checked vs Federal Register / USTR
Scored by
Binary: YES if trade-weighted average applied tariff ≥10% on Dec 31 2026 under any legal authority; NO otherwise

Resolution metric is pre-committed — no ambiguity about the denominator or authority basis.