The decision marks a U-turn for Trump, who said days ago that he was ‘not looking for a deal’ to scrap the tariffs – key US politics stories from Sunday 25 May 2025
Donald Trump will delay his threatened 50% tariffs on all European Union imports into the US, after what he described as a “very nice call” with European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen.
Von der Leyen wrote that she had a “Good call with POTUS” in a social media post announcing she had secured a tariff delay of more than a month, to 9 July, to give both sides more time to negotiate.
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