Trump delays 50% EU tariffs until July 9, as Von der Leyen 'claims' serious negotiations' - all you need to know | Today news

US President Donald Trump has announced that the United States will postpone the planned 50% rate on goods from the European Union – from the original date from June 1 to July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the block. The announcement comes after a Sunday telephone call with the European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who, according to Trump, said she “wants to go to serious negotiations.” “I told someone who would listen, they should do it,” Trump on Sunday in Morristown, New Jersey, told reporters. According to Trump, Von der Leyen promised to “quickly get together and see if we could work out something.” Von der Leyen said on her part that the EU and the US had “shared the world’s most resulting and close trade relationship.” Von der Leyen said in a post on X on Sunday that “Europe is ready to speak quickly and decisively,” but “a good deal” will “need” time until July 9 “. This is the date that Trump’s 90 days break would end of his so -called reciprocal rates. The EU is planned for a 20% tariff below the reciprocal rates announced in April. However, on Friday, in a position on social media, Trump threatened to impose the 50% tariff on EU goods, complaining that the 27-member block was ‘very difficult to trade with the trade and that negotiations were not going anywhere’. Those rates would have started from June 1st. But the call with Von der Leyen apparently smoothed the tension, at least for now. “I agreed to the expansion – July 9, 2025 – it was my privilege to do so,” Trump said on Truth Social shortly after talking to reporters on Sunday night. The EU shared a revived trading proposal with the US last week in an effort to increase talks, and the trade chief of the Bloc, Maros Sefcovic, held a call with its US counterpart, Jamieson Greer, on Friday.