Trump says 50% tariff on European Union delayed until July

President Trump said Sunday that the U.S. will delay implementation of a 50% tariff on goods from the European Union from June 1 until July 9 to buy time for negotiations with the bloc.

That agreement came after a call Sunday with Ursula von der Leyen, the president of the European Commission, who had told Mr. Trump that she "wants to get down to serious negotiations," according to the president's retelling.

"I told anybody that, they have to do that," Mr. Trump told reporters on Sunday in Morristown, New Jersey, as he prepared to return to Washington. Von der Leyen, Mr. Trump said, vowed to "rapidly get together and see if we can work something out."