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US Section 301 trade probes loom over fragile China truce

By Bradley Dress, Eliana Hubacker ( March 26, 2026, 20:56 GMT | Comment) -- The Trump administration’s looming Section 301 trade investigations into China will test a fragile truce reached late last year between Washington and Beijing and risk renewing tensions between the world’s two largest economies. President Donald Trump has stressed the need to replace his global tariff regime, which the US Supreme Court struck down in February in declaring the 1977 International Emergency Economic Powers Act can't be used to impose duties. Without IEEPA, Trump has lost significant leverage with China, one of the president’s main targets in his global trade war. The Trump administration’s looming Section 301 trade investigations into China will test a fragile truce reached late last year between Washington and Beijing and risk renewing tensions between the world’s two largest economies. ...

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