Will Trump embargo a new country by August 2026? [ resolves 2026-08 – 2027-01 ]
Will Donald Trump issue any executive action on imposing a comprehensive trade embargo on a new foreign country before Jan 1, 2027?
kalshi: [B] multiple sources, tie-break·reporting consensus methodology ›
markets · by resolution date · marks: daily snapshot
resolution architecture
| venue | proposer | source | citation | arbitration | class | analyst notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| kalshi | Exchange Staff | the White House | not provided | Kalshi Staff | Other | — |
verbatim rules
kalshi
If Donald Trump has taken any executive action imposing a comprehensive trade embargo on a new foreign country before Aug 1, 2026, then the market resolves to Yes.
The qualifying action must be of the specific type designated (executive order, presidential memorandum, proclamation, directive, determination, or finding), be signed by the President personally during the specified time period, and explicitly address the topic in the document's operative provisions, title, or official White House summary. Actions must have legal or policy effect - ceremonial proclamations without policy impact do not qualify unless specifically included. Actions that only incidentally mention the topic, statements without formal action, actions by cabinet members, legislative proposals without executive action, and signing statements do not qualify. The action must be publicly announced or documented by a Source Agency before expiration.
platform source field
kalshi.settlement_sources → "the White House" sources (3) · single authority
the White House committed source Federal Register venue-listed the President of the United States venue-listed
resolution history
| outcome | market | venue | resolved | final price |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO | Will Donald Trump issue any executive action on imposing a comprehensive trade embargo on a new foreign country before Aug 1, 2026? | kalshi | 2026-08-01 | 0% |
Resolution dates are the venue's settlement timestamps (1 resolved market). Rows shown as "by [date]" carry the contract deadline: the venue no longer exposes a settlement time for them. PENDING upgrades to a final outcome on the next refresh.
recent wire items
- New US country embargo by August stays a long shot at 16% Kalshi 16%
- Kalshi prices only 16% odds that Trump formally embargoes a new country by August 2026, resolving via the White House.
- Trump's sweeping all-caps Truth Social threat against Iran and its trading partners is hawkish, but the market prices formal embargo action as still unlikely near-term.
- The gap between Trump's rhetoric and the 16% market price suggests the prediction market is discounting the likelihood of a formal new embargo declaration before month-end.
- A related Kalshi contract at 6% on the US recognizing Reza Pahlavi as Iran's leader confirms the market sees regime-change-level escalation as a very long shot.
programmatic access · four surfaces, same payload
One canonical record at every surface — embedded JSON-LD, REST, MCP, and /llms.txt.
| HTML | browsers, AI grounded search, crawlers (embedded JSON-LD @type: Dataset) | https://clearmarket.fyi/events/kxstoptrade/ |
| JSON | REST API for developers | https://api.clearmarket.fyi/v1/events/kxstoptrade |
| MCP | agentic AI tool call (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Continue) | clearmarket.get_event("kxstoptrade") |
| AGENT | AI crawler discovery index | /llms.txt |
Snapshot 2026-08-04. Venue data via Kalshi + Polymarket APIs. Editorial fields (tags, editorial_notes) are ClearMarket-drafted with AI assistance under editorial review. Derived fields (venues_covered, resolution_clarity_grade, rcg_score) computed at serve time. Full per-field map in the JSON record under field_provenance.
raw JSON record · same payload returned by REST endpoint {
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