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The European Union will delay its plan to strike the United States with definitions on 21 billion euros from its annual exports to Europe on Tuesday in the hope of reaching an agreement after Donald Trump announced that it would reach the bloc by 30 percent of August 1.

European Commission President Ursula von der Layen said on Sunday that the application of definitions to 21 billion euros from the annual American exports to the European Union, including chicken, motorcycles and clothes, which was scheduled to enter into force after midnight on July 14 to “early August”.

“We have always been clear that we prefer a negotiating solution with the United States. This is still the case,” she said.

Donald Trump Declare On Saturday, the European Union and Mexico, one of the closest trade partners in the United States, will be 30 percent of August 1.

European leaders have been divided on whether the mass should press a quick trade deal similar to the United Kingdom or continue to negotiate the hope of achieving a better result.

Senior European Union officials told that they do not expect Trump to eventually pass his new threat by 30 percent of the customs tariff, which Brussels is widely interpreted as being offered by the US President to increase pressure on the mass at the remainder of the remaining negotiations.

A European Union official pointed to the possibility of a very negative American investor’s reaction to such sharp measures to a major commercial partner.

“We trust the market,” the official said.

German Finance Minister Lars Klingille called for the European Union to continue the “dangerous” talks. “Nobody needs new threats or provocations at the present time. What we need is that the European Union continue to have serious and targeted negotiations with the United States,” Süddeutsche Zeitung said.

However, Klingbeil warned that “if it is not possible to reach a fair negotiating solution, we must take decisive counter measures to protect jobs and companies in Europe.”

In addition to the initial menu of anti -alertin, the European Commission, which manages commercial policy, consults a set of customs tariffs on 95 billion euros of imports from the United States, including aircraft, alcohol and food, which will need the approval of member states. This has already been reduced to 72 billion euros, according to diplomats, after governments pressed to remove some sensitive products from the targeted list.

The United States applies tariffs to about 380 billion euros of annual imports from the European Union.

Von der Layen said that the committee will continue to “prepare” the second list of counter -measures, but said that the bloc will not call for the tool of the anti -sustenance, which will allow it to rid measures of US service exports, for example by preventing companies from public purchasing contracts.

“We have not seen yet,” said the chairman of the committee.

Her comments came when she announced a “political agreement” on a free trade deal with Indonesia after nine years of talks.

The deal, which is expected to be completed in September, will need to be ratified by the vast majority of member states and European Parliament. Officials are confident that it will pass because Indonesia does not give up sensitive agricultural products such as beef.

The bilateral trade in goods between the European Union and Indonesia amounted to 27.3 billion euros in 2024, with the European Union’s exports of 9.7 billion euros and the European Union at a value of 17.5 billion euros.

“I am very happy because we are in the era of instability and confusion, we put a correct example,” said the President of Indonesia, Brabu Subanto.

Von der Lin said that diversifying its commercial agreements was an essential part of the European Union’s strategy to confront Trump’s trade war.

However, some business groups and politicians criticized the approach of von der Lin.

Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, the leader of the far -right league party, who was enthusiastically rooted for Trump’s re -election, was criticized in Brussels on charges of negotiations.

“Trump has no reason to attack our country, but again we pay the price of Europe led by German,” the league said in a statement.

Collery, the Italian Agricultural Business Association, also criticized the treatment of Brussels with negotiations, and warned that the Trump tariff, which threatened 30 percent, would be “resisting” to export food in Italy, and causes an estimated 2.3 billion euros as directly damage to Italian producers.

“If the definitions are confirmed on August 1, we can only notice the complete failure of the von der Lynn policy,” said Itor Brandini, President of Collentretti.

Additional reports by Amy Kazmen in Rome, Henry Foy in Brussels and Anna Silvin Chasani in Berlin