{"id":534261,"date":"2026-03-13T18:51:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534261\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T18:51:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T18:51:18","slug":"u-s-expands-trade-investigations-into-more-countries-including-canada-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/534261\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. expands trade investigations into more countries, including Canada &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\tBy Kelly Geraldine Malone<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Canadian Press\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tPosted March 13, 2026 10:40 am\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t1 min read\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tDescrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tIncrease article font size<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration has expanded its trade investigations to 60 countries, including Canada, in an effort to solidify the <a href=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/tag\/donald-trump-tariffs\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">president\u2019s tariff policies<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/70c8fc80.png\" alt=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;width:1px;height:1px\" referrerpolicy=\"no-referrer-when-downgrade\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The United States Trade Representative announced earlier this week that it was launching investigations under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 on the European Union and a handful of other countries.<\/p>\n<p>A Wednesday evening news release from the department expanded the list of countries targeted by the investigations.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-video__image\" alt=\"Click to play video: 'Business Matters: Companies entitled to Trump tariff refunds, federal judge rules'\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/m55.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   data-\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t2:18<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tBusiness Matters: Companies entitled to Trump tariff refunds, federal judge rules\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\tMore on Canada<br \/>\n\t\t\tMore videos\n\t\t<\/p>\n<p>It says the department will look at whether the countries have policies or practices that \u201care unreasonable or discriminatory and burden or restrict U.S. commerce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The investigations come after the U.S. Supreme Court last month struck down U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s favourite tariff tool that he used for his \u201cLiberation Day\u201d tariffs and fentanyl-related duties on Canada, Mexico and China.<\/p>\n<p>Trump responded to the top court\u2019s ruling by using Section 122 of the Trade Act of 1974 to implement a worldwide 10 per cent levy \u2014 but that can only stay in place for 150 days without Congressional approval.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t&amp;copy 2026 The Canadian Press\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Kelly Geraldine Malone The Canadian Press Posted March 13, 2026 10:40 am 1 min read Descrease article&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":534262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[48,8334,46,43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-534261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-canada","tag-donald-trump-tariffs","tag-economy","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=534261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/534262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=534261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=534261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=534261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}