CLAIM · SUPPLY CHAIN & LOGISTICS
“The seasonally adjusted US goods trade deficit for October 2026, Census basis, in the Census Bureau's advance report, as first published, whatever the method, is about USD 125 billion.”
This claim comes from The Tariff Ledger: Trade Gaps and Customs Receipts to Year End, published on 14 October 2026, and entered the ledger on 14 October 2026. The firm locked a range of 108 to 142 USD billion with a central estimate of 125; a range item is scored by whether the published figure lands inside the band, outside the Brier rule. It resolves by 27 November 2026, only against a dated public source.
This call, in time
Written and locked14 Oct
Resolves by27 Nov
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From the reportThe Tariff Ledger: Trade Gaps and Customs Receipts to Year End14 October 2026 · AIG-SCL-26-007Its sibling calls
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- CLM-2026-426Net customs duties in the Monthly Treasury Statement for November 2026 are more than USD 15 billion.70% · resolves in 58 d
- CLM-2026-427Gross customs duties in the Monthly Treasury Statement for November 2026 are more than USD 22 billion.80% · resolves in 58 d
Status
Where the claim stands on the ledger, the probability the firm locked, and the dates that govern it.
lockedStatus
108 to 142 USD billion (central 125)Locked range
2026-11-27Resolves by
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Extraction and settlement
Where the sentence came from, and the public source that decides it.
Where it was madethe Outlook of the PMR "The Tariff Ledger: Trade Gaps and Customs Receipts to Year End"
Window as statedfor the month of October 2026, as published on 27 November 2026
How it will be settledU.S. Census Bureau: The value is the seasonally adjusted international trade in goods deficit for October 2026, in USD billion, in the Advance Economic Indicators Report released on 27 November 2026, as first published, whatever the method, scored on whether it falls inside the interval.
Where the probability came fromLocked range of record from the approved PMR; scored by interval coverage, outside the Brier rule
Record classbrier native
Claim familythe-tariff-ledger-trade-gaps-and-customs-receipts-to-year; used to avoid presenting related claims as independent trials.
Learning roleoperational. Holdout claims may score publicly but never train the Learning Loop.
Extracted2026-10-14, against the forward-claim standard
The series it resolves against
The data series, if any, whose values settle the outcome.
This claim names no series the Dashboard carries; it resolves against the public source recorded with it.