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Trump news at a glance: president delays 50% tariffs after ‘very nice call’ with EU chief

US President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey on 25 May, 2025.
US President Donald Trump speaks to the media before boarding Air Force One in New Jersey on 25 May, 2025. Photograph: Nathan Howard/Reuters

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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