{"id":311,"date":"2025-05-26T00:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/?p=311"},"modified":"2025-05-26T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T00:50:10","slug":"trump-delays-50-tariffs-on-eu-to-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/26\/trump-delays-50-tariffs-on-eu-to-july-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump delays 50% tariffs on EU to July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>U.S. President Donald Trump agreed to delay imposing a 50% tariff on European goods until July 9.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>\u201cI agreed to the extension \u2014 July 9, 2025 \u2014 It was my privilege to do so,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Ursula Von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said that she needed until July 9 to \u201creach a good deal.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Donald Trump said Sunday that he agreed to an extension on the 50% tariff deadline on the European Union until July 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI received a call today from Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, requesting an extension on the June 1st deadline on the 50% Tariff with respect to Trade and the European Union,\u201d Trump wrote on Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI agreed to the extension \u2014 July 9, 2025 \u2014 It was my privilege to do so,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump\u2019s post came after Von der Leyen said that she had a \u201cgood call\u201d with Trump, but needed until July 9 to \u201creach a good deal.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe EU and US share the world\u2019s most consequential and close trade relationship,\u201d she wrote on X.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cEurope is ready to advance talks swiftly and decisively,\u201d she continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Trump imposed 20% tariffs on the EU as part of his sweeping \u201creciprocal tariffs,\u201d before slashing the rate down to 10% for 90 days on April 9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But Trump last week suggested a \u201cstraight 50% tariff\u201d on the EU beginning on June 1, saying that the 27-nation bloc \u201chas been very difficult to deal with.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOur discussions with them are going nowhere!\u201d Trump wrote Friday on Truth Social.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He later said that he was not planning to strike a deal with the EU before June 1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI just said, it\u2019s time that we play the game the way I know how to play the game,\u201d he said during an executive order signing event at the White House.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Sunday that he agreed to an extension on the 50% tariff deadline on the European Union until July 9. \u201cI received a call today from Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission, requesting an extension on the June 1st deadline on the 50% Tariff with respect to Trade and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[150,133,149],"class_list":["post-311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-eu","tag-tariffs","tag-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":313,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311\/revisions\/313"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hkg01.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}