WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump declared on Sunday that the United States delay the implementation of a 50% price on items from the European Union from 1 June to 9 July to purchase time for negotiations with the block.
This settlement got here after a Sunday name with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who had instructed Trump that “he needs to get off to severe negotiations”, in line with the reinterpretation of the President of the United States.
“I instructed anybody who would have listened, they must do it,” Trump stated to journalists on Sunday in Morristown, New Jersey, whereas getting ready to return to Washington. Von der Leyen, stated Trump, promised to “be shortly and see if we will clear up one thing”.
In a put up on social media on Friday, Trump had threatened to impose the 50% price on EU belongings, complaining that the block of 27 members had been “very tough to face” for commerce and that the negotiations weren’t “going wherever”. Those charges would have kicked ranging from June 1st.
But the decision with Von der Leyen appeared to clean out the tensions, a minimum of for now.
“I accepted the extension – on 9 July 2025 – it was my privilege to take action,” Trump stated on Truth Social shortly after speaking to journalists on Sunday night.
For his half, Von der Leyen stated that the EU and the United States “share essentially the most consequent and slender industrial relations of the world”.
“Europe is able to advance the talks shortly and positively,” he stated. “To attain a very good deal, we would want time till 9 July.”
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