
President Donald Trump shakes hands with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, in Turnberry, Scotland, on July 27, 2025. Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images
The EU will suspend its two packages of countermeasures to U.S. tariffs for six months, a European Commission spokesman said on Monday.
Olof Gill, the commission spokesman for trade, said in a statement emailed to The Epoch Times that the bloc “continues to work with the U.S. to finalise a Joint Statement, as agreed on 27 July.”





