The EU’s retaliatory tariffs on US exports have been delayed again, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has announced.
The countermeasures, which were due to start on Tuesday, came in response to US President Donald Trump’s initial import taxes on steel and aluminium.
The EU’s retaliation, which would have hit twenty-one billion euros worth of US goods, was first suspended in March.
Von der Leyen told a press conference on Sunday that the break has been extended to early August.
EU trade ministers are expected to meet in Brussels on Monday to discuss how to respond.
It comes after Trump wrote a letter to von der Leyen announcing his plans to impose 30% tariffs on EU imports from the first of August, 2025.
