Donald Trump says he`ll delay threatened 50 per cent tariff on EU until July

President Donald Trump has said that the US will delay implementation of a 50 per cent tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc.

That agreement came after a call Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who had told Trump that she `wants to get down to serious negotiations,` according to the US president`s retelling.

`I told anybody that would listen, they have to do that,` Trump told reporters on Sunday in Morristown, New Jersey, as he prepared to return to Washington. Von der Leyen, Trump said, vowed to `rapidly get together and see if we can work something out.`

In a social media post Friday, Trump had threatened to impose the 50 per cent tariff on EU goods, complaining that the 27-member bloc had been `very difficult to deal with` on trade and that negotiations were `going nowhere.` Those tariffs would have kicked in starting June 1.

But the call with von der Leyen appeared to smooth over tensions, at least for now. `I agreed to the extension ` July 9, 2025 ` It was my privilege to do so,` Trump said on Truth Social shortly after he spoke with reporters on Sunday evening.

For her part, von der Leyen said the EU and the US `share the world`s most consequential and close trade relationship.` `Europe is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively,` she said. `To reach a good deal, we would need the time until July 9.`

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