Trump says he'll delay threatened 50% tariff on European Union until July

WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump said Sunday that the U.S. volition hold implementation of a 50% tariff connected goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to bargain clip for negotiations with the bloc.

That statement came aft a telephone Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who had told Trump that she "wants to get down to superior negotiations," according to the U.S. president's retelling.

"I told anybody that would listen, they person to bash that," Trump told reporters connected Sunday successful Morristown, New Jersey, arsenic helium prepared to instrumentality to Washington. Von der Leyen, Trump said, vowed to "rapidly get unneurotic and spot if we tin enactment thing out."

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters earlier boarding Air Force One astatine Morristown Municipal Airport successful Morristown, N.J., Sunday, May 25, 2025.

(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

In a societal media station Friday, Trump had threatened to enforce the 50% tariff connected EU goods, complaining that the 27-member bloc had been "very hard to woody with" connected commercialized and that negotiations were "going nowhere." Those tariffs would person kicked successful starting June 1.

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But the telephone with von der Leyen appeared to creaseless implicit tensions, astatine slightest for now.

"I agreed to the hold - July 9, 2025 - It was my privilege to bash so," Trump said connected Truth Social soon aft helium spoke with reporters connected Sunday evening.

For her part, von der Leyen said the EU and the U.S. "share the world's astir consequential and adjacent commercialized relationship."

"Europe is acceptable to beforehand talks swiftly and decisively," she said. "To scope a bully deal, we would request the clip until July 9.